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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has now decided to go ahead alone and has started reviewing relationship with INDIA bloc. The party’s path ahead is already embattled with legal battles, with its three key leaders – CM Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, and Satyendra Kumar Jain –...
Rahul Gandhi Is Set To Take Over Leader of Opposition Post In Lok Sabha
By Sushil Kutty It is the same old story. The boringly repetitive drama of Congress leaders imploring Rahul Gandhi to take on a plum post – this time that of Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha. The two sides never tire of the game. On one side, Congress...
Allies Upset At Dithering Congress Over INDIA Bloc’s Lost Chance
By Arun Srivastava It might have been far-fetched, but even then the Trinamool Congress’s Young Turk Abhishek Banerjee took pains to fly to Mumbai to meet the Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray and his son Aditya Thackeray, for exploring opportunity for a third front government to take over in...
Congress Focused On Fewer Seats, Sacrificed Many In Favour Of Allies
By Harihar Swarup Forty-four seat and 19.3% of the votes in 2014: 52 seat and 19.49% of the votes in 2019: and 99 seats and 21.26% of the vote in 2024. One of the stories of these elections has been turnaround of the Indian National Congress, one made all...
Trinamool Congress Retains Maximum Portion Of Muslim Votes In Bengal
By Tirthankar Mitra Influence of Indian Secular Front (ISF), the “one legislator party” in the West Bengal Assembly is not to be judged by its representation. It contested on its own in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and cut into the support bases of Congress and several Left Front...
Far Right Dominates In France As European Parliament Elections Are On
By Hansgeorg Hermann PARIS: As the European Parliament elections are on from June 6 to June 9, the bourgeois party Les Republicains, founded by Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president and adviser to current President Emmanuel Macron, is plummeting, as is the latter’s Renaissance formation. So far, Le Penʼs Rassemblement...
Unemployment Crisis To Continue In PM Narendra Modi’s Third Term
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Unprecedented unemployment crisis under PM Narendra Modi’s first two terms since 2014, is most likely to continue in his third term , unless the jobless growth model is changed. Out of about one billion working age population, the number of people in employment has been...
Uddhav Thackeray And Sharad Pawar Have Emerged Taller In Maharashtra
By Sushil Kutty Nothing odd, but reports speak of unrest in the ranks of the Shinde Shiv Sena. The Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena looks the better bet. Amidst this, the crowning of Narendra Damodardas Modi as the leader of the NDA parliamentary party. Were the Shinde Sena MPs present...
Narendra Modi’s Battle With Sangh Parivar Shows No Signs Of Easing
By Arun Srivastava It was shocking to see incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who is even followed and revered by Lord Jagannath of Puri, prostrating before two mortal politicians Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu for their support to satiate his desire for becoming prime minister for third consecutive term. During...
Nitish, Naidu Kingmakers As BJP Is Cut Short By Indian Voters
By Rahil Nora Chopra The regional satraps, JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar and the TDP leader N Chandrababu Naidu, have been made kingmakers by the Lok Sabha election results. With the BJP short of majority in Lok Sabha elections, no government can come to power without them. Both parties —...
Congress Leadership In A Depression In Bengal After Lok Sabha Results
By Tirthankar Mitra KOLKATA: The debacle of the Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal was not at all unexpected. With only Malda (South) Lok Sabha constituency in Congress kitty out of 42 seats in the state, the Grand Old Party is a faint shadow of its...
There Are Many Sides Of Mahatma Gandhi Which Indian People Are Not Fully Aware
By Arun Kumar Shrivastav During the peak of election campaigning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s remarks about Mahatma Gandhi created quite a buzz, with many criticizing his take that nobody in the world knew about Gandhi until the Richard Attenborough-directed film Gandhi came out in 1982. Many people think Gandhi...
A Big Hike In Govt Expenditure Is Imperative For Generating Jobs For The Youth
By Prabhat Patnaik A distinction is drawn in economics between demand-constrained systems and resource-constrained systems (which for simplicity and symmetry we shall call supply-constrained systems). In the former, an increase in output can occur if there is a rise in aggregate demand without causing any scarcity-induced inflation; in the...
Pakistan Prime Minister Is Seeking Big Economic Assistance From China During Talks In Current Visit
By Girish Linganna Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, is currently in China for a five-day visit which kicked off on Tuesday (June 4). China is Pakistan’s closest and most significant partner. This is the prime minister’s first trip to China after the general elections held on February 8. The...
Far Right Heading For Big Win In Current European Parliament Elections
By Loren Balhorn As elections for the European Parliament get underway (June 6 to June 9), the parties of the Left have little to get excited about. In country after country, forces that ten years ago fronted what looked like a European-wide revolt against austerity are barely keeping their...
Three National Elections In Three Continents Signal March Of Vibrant Democracy
By Nitya Chakraborty In a span of three days this week, three largely populated countries — South Africa, Mexico and India got the results from the national elections and all three signalled the triumphant march of the vibrant democracy in each country. The results showed how the vigilant electorate...
Uttar Pradesh Election Result May Be Early Sign Of Change In Indian Politics
By Dr. Gyan Pathak The fall of the far-rightist and hyper nationalist Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded Lok Sabha Election in Uttar Pradesh and the rise of socialist Samajwadi Party (SP) and the centrist Indian National Congress (INC) alliance may be an early sign of...
2024 Lok Sabha Election Verdict: One Step Forward But Fight To Go On
By P. Sudhir The verdict of the 2024 Lok Sabha election is remarkable for the assertion by the people that they value democracy and the constitution. The people have deprived the BJP of an absolute majority, something which it had achieved both in 2014 and 2019. The BJP’s tally...
