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By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kerala is in the eye of a storm over the infamous Kodakara black money heist case. The scam has badly dented the image of the BJP. The ‘party with a difference’ has morphed into a party pockmarked with...
Yogi Adityanath’s Over-Dependency On Bureaucracy Harming BJP
By Sagarneel Sinha Six weeks ago Uttar Pradesh was recording over 30,000 daily covid-19 cases. Now, the same state is recording less than 1000 daily cases. The positivity rate of the state has dropped to just 0.33 from its peak of 16.74 registered back in April. This wouldn’t...
Opposition In Uttar Pradesh Is Gearing Up To Challenge BJP For Mission 2022
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Opposition parties are gearing up to take on CM Yogi Adityanath as the main face of BJP for 2022 assembly polls. Since BJP and Sangh Parivar will contest UP elections on Hindutva agenda they have no option but to continue saffron clad Yogi Adityanath...
Socialism Or Barbarism? What’s At Stake In Peru
By Ben Chacko All eyes are on Peru as dictator’s daughter Keiko Fujimori gets her fraud allegations in even before results are declared. Fujimori is beating a familiar drum: the political right in Latin America routinely dismiss elections they don’t win as fraudulent. The last results...
Free vaccination Modi’s ‘My Way’ to political resurrection
By Sushil Kutty Post the West Bengal election results, Bharatiya Janata Party leaders were lost sheep, stumped for not knowing what to do and what to say, used as they were to singing praise of dear leader Narendra Modi, so cued they were to raise Modi’s larger than life...
Modi partially solves the problems of his own creation
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement of providing free vaccine for all adults of India has certainly solved a cross section of the problems of vaccination in the country for which he has been praised and thanked even though these were his own creation. Nevertheless, the...
Cong high command has to ensure total unity in Punjab party
By Kalyani Shankar The Congress leadership is engaged in damage control in Punjab with the political crisis threatening to go out of control. The high command is looking for a formula to calm down the tempers of the dissidents against the chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh. The Assembly elections...
Home Ministry order reignites citizenship debate
By Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi and Ibad Mushtaq Since the past week, social media platforms have been abuzz with posts about how the Ministry of Home Affairs has acted upon the controversial Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, even though no rules have yet been framed. The reason – an order issued...
RSS, BJP bosses still clueless on how to deal with Yogi
By Arun Srivastava After losing the historic battle of Bengal and Narendra Modi’s image of invincibility lying completely shattered on the streets of Kolkata, the Rajput warrior of Uttar Pradesh, the chief minister Yogi Adityanath, has launched a blistering attack on the two commanders of the Saffron brigade, Narendra...
India’s Federal Democracy Is Under Attack Again
By Nantoo Banerjee The country’s fragile federal democratic system is under attack once again. This time, the Centre, hypersensitive about its supremacy over states, seems to have faulted the West Bengal government and its chief minister (CM) on political mannerism as she kept the prime minister (PM) waiting after...
Modi Is Now Vulnerable But Viable Alternative Is Still To Emerge
By Amulya Ganguli There are signs that the BJP expects to ride out the Covid-19 storm and remain ensconced in power at the centre and in some of the states for quite some time. As much can be discerned from railway minister Piyush Goyal’s assertion that the economy is...
Global Corporate Tax Proposal Is A Revised Version Of Indian MAT
By Anjan Roy Remember MAT, or the minimum alternative tax, that was proposed in the union budget years back in the UPA government days. The measure was conjured up by the then finance minister to bring some Indian corporate biggies under the tax which had avoided paying any tax...
Lakshadweep Is An Island With Unique Characteristics For Long Years
By Sushil Kutty The people of the Lakshadweep guard their ‘Muslimness’ like the British the Kohinoor! And, if there’s an ‘Indian’ law they love to hate, it’s the Special Marriage Act, 1954. Also, Mahatma Gandhi is persona non-grata in the archipelago as also Ganesha with his elephant head. There’s...
Future Of Afghanistan Following U.S. Withdrawal Of Troops Uncertain
By Sankar Ray The bellicose tradition of Taliban stops at new crossroads, the complete withdrawal of US troops from the Afghan soil by 9/11 this year, as per an agreement signed between the USA and the Taliban on 29 February, 2020. They are ostensibly peace-loving. Incredible as it may...
Bhima Koregaon: Marking Three Years Since The First Arrest
By Nihalsing B Rathod The morning of June 6, 2018, gave me a horrific memory that perhaps will never fade. Early in the morning, I received a phone call that police were at the house of Advocate Surendra Gadling again. The memory of the raid of April 17, 2018,...
Uttar Pradesh Assembly Poll In Early 2022 Is Big Headache Of BJP Now
By Harihar Swarup India’s politicians have shifted focus from the east and the south to the north. Even as the country battles the devastating second wave of Covid-19 infections, both political activity and political competition have intensified in states going to polls early next year. And nowhere is this...
Reiteration Of Home Truths By Court Shows Extent Of Our Vulnerability
By K Raveendran It was unusual for attorney general K K Venugopal the other day to remind the Supreme Court, though gently, that no matter what orders the court might pass, parliament has the powers to neutralise these. “I am sorry to say but Your Lordships can pass any...
RSS Strategy Session In Delhi To Save BJP’s Image Is Significant
By Arun Srivastava A section of liberals sympathise with the sentiment expressed by Narendra Modi on the death of the “kuch log” (some people) and even argue that it would be unfair to treat his tears as that of a crocodile. One ought not forget that it took nearly...
