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By K Raveendran Incumbent ruling dispensations disfranchising former rulers and banning them for life from contesting elections is something that one often associates with countries with fragile democracies. Indians are used to news about politicians losing their seats in parliament and being debarred from contesting elections on account of corruption and other offences from across […]

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By Harihar Swarup If not people, BJP will make Rahul Gandhi a leader by persecuting him. History has shown whenever a leader is persecuted as Rahul Gandhi is being done, he gets people’s sympathy. Wayanad MP Rahul has lost his Lok Sabha seat after being convicted of a criminal defamation by a Surat court. What […]

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By Anjan Roy Overshadowed by the news of Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from parliament, March 24 witnessed another unique parliamentary episode. For the first time in 75 years history of independent India, the general budget was passed without a debate on the provisions of the budget. It has bypassed all established customs and precedents associated with […]

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By Sushil Kutty The day after, and the day before’s anger hadn’t ebbed. Everybody had something to comment about Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification. And none of them had full knowledge of the law that resulted in Rahul Gandhi‘s disqualification. American politicians, like Ro Khanna, who tweeted his anger, could be excused, but what about […]

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Rahul Gandhi is likely to address the media for the first time after disqualification at 1:00 pm today, where he could talk about his future course of action. Moreover, Congress also plans to take a legal route and approach the court against Gandhi’s conviction in the criminal defamation case and his swift disqualification from the […]

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A Delhi court on Friday said it will pronounce its order on former Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia’s bail plea on March 31 in the excise policy case lodged by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Special Judge M K Nagpal reserved his order on the Aam Aadmi Party leader’s plea seeking regular bail in […]

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The Congress has planned a nationwide “save democracy” movement to protest against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as the member of parliament, a day after a court convicted him of defamation for comments that many considered insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The decision was taken at a strategy meeting on Friday attended by top […]

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Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha is a “deep betrayal” of Gandhian philosophy, an influential Indian-origin Congressman said on Friday. Rahul Gandhi, the former Congress president, was on Friday disqualified from the Lok Sabha, nearly 24 hours after a court in Surat convicted him in a defamation case. “The expulsion of […]

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Radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh, who is still on the run, may be headed to Delhi after his last location was traced to neighbouring Haryana, sources have said. Sources say the police have stepped up vigil across the national capital after Amritpal sneaked out of Punjab and was last spotted in Haryana. An alert has been issued in Dehradun, […]

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In a huge setback for the Congress party, its former president Rahul Gandhi has been disqualified from the Lok Sabha because of his conviction in a 2019 criminal defamation case. The Lok Sabha Secretariat also declared his constituency vacant. The Election Commission can now announce a special election for the seat. Congress has called it […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The petition moved jointly by 14 leading opposition parties to the Supreme Court seeking its intervention in the ‘misuse’ of central investigation agencies by the Narendra Modi government against the leaders of the non-BJP parties, has big political significance in the present phase of political turmoil in the country. The immediate provocation […]

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By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is no longer a Member of Parliament. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla took the decision to disqualify the Gandhi Family scion following his conviction in a case of criminal defamation, with two-year jail sentence. Less than two years of jail and he wouldn’t have ended up in this […]

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By D. Raja “The proletariat will win. Capitalism will be defeated. Death to Imperialism!” Read Shaheed Bhagat Singh, wearing a red scarf, from a telegram message that was to be sent to the Third International on the occasion of Lenin’s death anniversary in 1930.This gesture made by Bhagat Singh not only underlined the international unity […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak What is ‘understanding’ an utterance and what is ‘misunderstanding’? The answer is obvious – if someone understands exactly the same as to what was uttered is ‘understanding’ and if someone derives any other meaning is ‘misunderstanding’. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for two years of imprisonment with a fine of Rs […]

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday held a meeting with opposition leaders and deliberated on the strategy going forward in the wake of Rahul Gandhi’s conviction in a 2019 defamation case. Besides the Congress, senior leaders of parties such as the DMK, National Conference, RSP, VCK, JDU, CPI(M), SP, SS, IUML, AAP and CPI attended […]

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Showing a shift in stance, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday openly supported Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after he was sentenced to two years in jail in a defamation case and alleged a conspiracy was being hatched to “eliminate” non-BJP leaders and parties by prosecuting them. The Congress and the AAP have in the […]

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In the span of about a week, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is meeting three important leaders from the opposition camp. It began with Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav on March 17. Then on Thursday, Mamata met Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik. And on Friday, she will have a meeting with Janata Dal (Secular)’s HD […]

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The BJP on Thursday took a swipe at the opposition meeting on the issue of Electronic Voting Machines, saying they have started looking for excuses for their expected defeat in the upcoming elections. The statement came after opposition parties decided to approach the Election Commission to voice their concerns over the use of Electronic Voting […]

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As Amritpal Singh continues to be on the run, the police have arrested a woman who sheltered the Khalistani leader and his associate Papalpreet Singh at her home in Haryana Baljeet Kaur sheltered Amritpal Singh and his aide Papalpreet Singh at her house in Kurukshetra’s Shahabad on Sunday night, officials have said. She told police that […]

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By Sushil Kutty They hate his guts, and that was reason enough to plaster the walls in Delhi with posters demanding ‘Modi Hatao/Desh Bachao’. Tens of thousands of these posters carrying the message appeared overnight in the city where Prime Minister Narendra Modi lives, and rules from. The BJP should have taken it in the […]

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By Krishna Jha India has entered one of its darkest phases of deprivation when the annual income of the poorest 20 percent has fallen by 53 percent and still continues to fall from the level of 2015-16. Since last three decades, economy was evolving at the rate of seven percent a year and was going […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Rising new COVID-19 cases again chiefly due to a new variant XBB.1.16 have put India on alert. The seriousness of the threat has been noted even at the Prime Minister level who chaired a review meeting on March 23, the day on which a single-day rise of 1300 new cases were […]

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By P Sudhir After seven days of disruption of parliamentary proceedings, the government is now planning to cut short the second half of the budget session by guillotining the demands for grants and passing the finance bill without any discussion. The peculiarity of this decision stems from the fact that it is the ruling party […]

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Two days after resigning from the Karnataka legislative council, BJP legislator Baburao Chinchansur on Wednesday joined the Congress. Two weeks ago, another BJP legislator, Puttanna, too had resigned from the council and the party, and joined the Congress. Chinchansur, who had played a key role in the defeat of Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge from […]

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The Punjab Assembly on Wednesday witnessed noisy scenes after Congress MLAs stormed the well of the House for being denied a discussion on the law and order situation in the state, while the SAD condemned the invoking of the National Security Act (NSA) against radical preacher Amritpal Singh. As Question Hour began in the budget […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will appear before a court in Gujarat’s Surat city on Thursday when it is expected to deliver its verdict in a 2019 criminal defamation case filed against him over his “Modi surname” remarks, party leaders said on Wednesday. Senior state Congress leaders, including GPCC president Jagdish Thakor, legislature party leader Amit […]

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After the Covid-19 pandemic stopped it, the Election Commission has restarted the process of reviewing the recognised status of political parties based on their performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and has given individual hearings to NCP and CPI, two of the eight recognised national parties. The commission has also heard six recognised state […]

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Khalistan supporters protesting against the crackdown on Khalistani leader Amritpal Singh on Wednesday, shouted slogans, threw water bottles and ink at the London Metropolitan police, who kept them confined to the other side of the road, a safe distance from the Indian High Commission. For the protesters, the immediate provocation was the bigger Indian flag […]

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By K Raveendran Post-1947, life in jail during independence struggle was considered a decoration for any politician or even common citizen. After Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, it was a jail term during the dark days that recognized one’s political mettle. During Modi’s era, the attribute of a good opposition politician is a raid by Enforcement Directorate […]

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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The statements by two influential bishops of the Catholic Church on rubber prices and support to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have taken the political parties in the State by surprise. If the offer is backed by various Christian bodies, it could signal a paradigm shift in Kerala politics. The first […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Putting democracy on hold in the National Capital Territory of Delhi by Modi government is not new. We have been witnessing it for the last nine years since Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India in 2014, but his party has been kept out of the Delhi Vidhan Sabha and Municipal […]

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By Sushil Kutty “You bring me the man, I’ll find you the crime.” That was Lavrentiy Beria, chief of the Soviet secret police, boasting during one of his more expansive moods. After Rahul Gandhi returned from London, it seems like there’s an Indian Lavrentiy, who has found a crime to fit Rahul Gandhi. The Congress […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has asserted that he has the right to respond in Parliament to the ”totally baseless” and ”unfair charges” hurled at him by senior ministers in the Lok Sabha over his democracy remarks. In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Gandhi invoked Rule 357 which allows for ”personal explanations” and […]

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Gudi Padwa, the Maharashtrian and Konkani new year, has become an issue of political slugfest in the western state as both BJP and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena have staked claim to the celebration of the festival on Wednesday. Uddhav’s cousin, Raj Thackeray, has joined the Gudi Padwa politics too as posters calling Maharashtra Navnirman Sena […]

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