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The government will not be run from jail, Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena said on Wednesday in the backdrop of statements by AAP leaders that Arvind Kejriwal will continue as chief minister even if he is behind bars. Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21 […]

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By Arun Kumar Shrivastav Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its Chairperson, Arvind Kejriwal, owe their political incarnation to the anti-corruption movement of 2011. The movement’s epicentre was Delhi and it brought together intellectuals from diverse fields – bureaucracy, law, teaching, banking, fine and performing arts, sports, films, and social work. Successful people from diverse backgrounds […]

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By Arun Srivastava Hype created by the urban middle class “andhabhakts” that Narendra Modi is invincible and he is the redeemer has few takers even within the rank and file of the BJP. Barely a month back, Modi came up with the slogan “Teesri baar Modi sarkar, abki baar 400 paar”, passing it off as […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Having arrested Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and Chief Minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal in an excise case on March 21, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has now begun raids at Punjab Excise and Taxation Commissioner on March 27. The latest ED action is largely perceived as political in the state as […]

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By Sushil Kutty Acting US Deputy Ambassador Gloria Berbena was at the receiving end of New Delhi’s ire after the US State Department spoke its mind on the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Both the US State Department and Gloria Berbena gave Modi’s millions a chance to thump their “56” chests” as India’s […]

The post Arvind Kejriwal Gets International Heft Against The Deshi Vishwaguru first appeared on Latest India news, analysis and reports on IPA Newspack.

By K Raveendran The big noise about electoral bonds will in all probability end up in a whimper like the investigations into the 2G spectrum scam, both of which can be compared in terms of scale and the extent of mischief. Both scams are likely to remain a dark symphony of secrecy, favours, and hidden […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The 18th Lok Sabha elections scheduled to be held from April 19 to June 1 this year in seven phases have assumed historic importance in the past 73 years of the functioning of parliamentary democracy in India since the holding of the first Lok Sabha polls in 1951-52. The Narendra Modi government […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s wife Sunita on Wednesday said that her husband will reveal the truth regarding the Delhi excise policy case in court tomorrow (March 28). She also said that he will reveal where the money of the scam is and also provide evidence. Addressing a press conference, Sunita Kejriwal claimed that no money […]

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Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today challenged in Delhi High Court his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case related to the now-scrapped liquor policy. The bench of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma has passed over the matter for a hearing later in the day after Kejriwal’s counsel, Senior Advocate Abhishek Singhvi questioned […]

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The Grand Alliance in Bihar has come to an understanding about the sharing of the state’s 40 Lok Sabha seats. Sources said the under the deal, Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal will contest 26 seats, the Congress 9 seats, the Left parties five of which the CPIML will contest three seats. The parties will hold […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee At a time when India is baffled by China’s preposterous and farcical claims over the state of Arunachal Pradesh, its government-owned Sanghai Automobile Industry Corporation, commonly known as SAIC Motor, has joined hands with billionaire Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Group to manufacture passenger cars and commercial vehicles in India. China is aspiring to […]

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Punjab Minister Harjot Singh Bains and Somnath Bharti were among the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) members who were detained by the Delhi police today as they protested against the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the liquor policy case. Several AAP leaders and workers – including women – were seen being shoved and dragged […]

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By Kunal Bose So the cat is finally out of the bag following a few reprimands of the government owned and the country’s largest State Bank of India, the sole issuer and encasher of the controversial electoral bonds. The buyers of such bonds were Indian corporate houses and some high net worth individuals and the […]

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By Harihar Swarup From a popular anti-corruption star, a populist leader to battling corruption charges himself, the arrest of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the Enforcement Directorate in the liquor policy case marks another dramatic episode in the large arc of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief. Kejriwal shot to fame a decade ago as […]

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Amid cries of ”Lal Salaam” and “Jai Bhim”, the winning students were hailed by their supporters. The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) on Sunday elected its first Dalit president from the Left-backed groups after nearly three decades. The United Left panel on Sunday effected a clean sweep in the JNUSU election, defeating its nearest […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Lok Sabha General Election 2024 has come with very high stake for workforce. Barring the pro-BJP Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, all the Central Trade Unions are campaigning against the BJP and PM Narendra Modi, since their returning to power for the third time would mean the implementation of the four controversial labour […]

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    Videos showed images of flames and black smoke pouring from the hall. More than 60 people were killed and about 115 others injured after gunmen opened fire at them in a Moscow concert hall, Russian authorities said, raising an earlier count of 40. Russia’s Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said 115 people were hospitalised, […]

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Several former MLAs of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly are expected to join the BJP and contest the upcoming bypolls on its ticket, sources told Press Trust of India today, as the political crisis plaguing the state continues to rumble. Six rebel Congress MLAs – Sudhir Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Rajinder Rana, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal, Chetanya Sharma […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Disruption of the ability of the opposition to run political campaigns has been well pronounced since January 1, 2024 to March 22, which can even be seen in the political advertising through Google. No national political party other than the BJP is among the top 10 political campaigners online. PM Narendra […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest in the alleged excise policy scam has posed a leadership crisis in the Aam Aadmi Party as well as the Delhi government, with his wife Sunita Kejriwal and cabinet ministers Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj being talked about as a possible replacement. The challenge before the AAP now is to […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak On the eve of Lok Sabha general election 2024, we have two important news this week – first, Indians are one of the most unhappy people of the world; and secondly, the promised “good days” came only for the top 10 per cent people of the country who were enabled to […]

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Levelling a serious allegation against the government weeks before the Lok Sabha election, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has said the Prime Minister has made a systematic effort to cripple the party financially. The same charge was made by senior leader Rahul Gandhi as well. Addressing a press conference on Thursday, Mrs Gandhi said, “The […]

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In a significant order weeks before the elections, the Supreme Court has once again refused to order a stay on the law to appoint election commissioners, stating that doing so at this stage would be “creating chaos”. While making the observations during a hearing on Thursday, the court also noted that there are no allegations […]

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A month before the Lok Sabha elections in Assam, the ruling BJP’s top minority leader in the state resigned and joined the Congress on Wednesday. Aminul Haque Laskar became the Assam BJP’s first minority MLA in 2016. Once a deputy speaker of Assam assembly, Mr Laskar was appointed the chairperson of the Assam State Commission […]

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By K Raveendran With more sordid details emerging on the goings on behind BJP’s success in cornering the lion’s share of the electoral bonds proceeds in the wake of the unwavering stand taken by the Supreme Court on the issue, the criminal intent behind the scheme’s evolution is becoming increasingly clear. But the most discomforting […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The late awakening of the Supreme Court headed by the Chief Justice of India Dr. D Y Chandrachud in seeing the quid pro quo relationship between the donors and the ruling party under the Electoral Bonds Scheme 2017 is welcome. The CJI has been firm in getting all the details from the […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee On the face of it the controversial citizenship amendment act of 2019 may appear to be purely humanitarian. It provides the government with a special provision to expedite the citizenship process for non-Muslim migrants – including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, and Parsis — to India from the neighbouring Muslim countries such […]

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In another serious setback to the Modi government and the State Bank of India (SBI) management, the Supreme Court today directed the SBI to disclose all possible details it possesses concerning electoral bonds. This includes the crucial alphanumeric codes assigned to each bond, which would enable tracing the origin of the funds and the political […]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that a direct conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would mean the planet was one step away from World War Three but said hardly anyone wanted such a scenario. The Ukraine war has triggered the deepest crisis in Moscow’s relations with the West […]

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By Sushil Kutty BJP-hating southerners identify Prime Minister Narendra Modi with everything they believe Indians can live without. With Electoral Bonds. With the Ayodhya Ram Mandir. With the Citizen’s Amendment Rules. With the overbearing nature of BJP leaders. With the breakdown of Rule of Law. With bulldozers running amok. Above all, a substantial number of […]

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By Harihar Swarup Among the most unexpected entrants in the BJP’s first list of Lok Sabha nominees is Bansuri Swaraj, the 40-year-old daughter of the BJP’s Sushma Swaraj, for whom the late BJP leader was known to leave meetings at times, to rush to be at the bus-stop when Bansuri returned from school. The choice […]

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Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday threatened legal action against Congress MP Pradyut Bordoloi over his social media posts alleging corruption by the BJP through electoral bonds. The Congress MP from Nagaon shared a post from a user claiming the Assam government had signed an memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a firm which […]

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Megha Engineering has gone viral on social media since the Election Commission revealed that the company was among the biggest donors to political parties in the last 5 years. Data released by the poll panel showed that the company donated Rs 966 crore through electoral bonds between April 12, 2019, and January 24, 2024. A […]

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By P. Sudhir Three developments in one week – one positive and the other two, negative. The first was the Supreme Court order directing the State Bank of India to submit to the Election Commission by March 12 the details of electoral bonds for the Election Commission to put up on their website by March […]

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