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Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi be choosing another temple town to contest in this Lok Sabha elections? If believed to BJP MLA from Odisha’s Padampur assembly constituency, Pradip Purohit, the answer is Yes. He may lure voters in Puri instead of Varanasi, the constituency from which he contested in...
Emancipated In Bondage Again
By Aditya Aamir After menstrual age women Kanaka Durga and Bindu Ammini’s wee-hour intrusion into the Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, there’s need for a reckoning. One leading newspaper termed the accomplishment, “red-letter day” and “emancipation of women”. The two women broke a “long-standing taboo”, the paper declared. Hardly. The...
Controversy Over Vande Mataram Singing In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: A decision to suspend singing of Vande Matram at the state Secretariat and stop pension of MISA detainees have plunged Madhya Pradesh into a serious controversy. Both the decisions have given an opportunity to the BJP to train the guns on the newly formed Congress...
BJP Looking For New Allies In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Fed up with sustained pressure from the allies in UP, the BJP may look for other alliance partners for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Significantly both the allies — Suhaildev Bhartiya Samaj Party and Apna Dal — are accusing the BJP central leadership of...
Political Consciousness Blossoming Among Techies
By B. Sivaraman “Dear Jeff, “We are troubled by the recent report from the American Civil Liberties union (ACLU) exposing our company’s practice of selling Amazon Web Service (AWS) Rekognition, a powerful facial recognition technology, to police departments and government agencies. …This will be another...
Opposition Unity Not As Easy As It Appears
By Arun Srivastava Incongruities have appeared on the mahagathbandhan horizon over seat sharing among partners and new entrants to the alliance. These are likely to hurt the opposition unity and could even help BJP. The ‘rebellion’ of BSP chief Mayawati with SP chief Akhilesh extending oral support could...
Indian Masses Are Looking For Real Change In 2019
By Shameem Faizee Perhaps never have the common people waited for the advent of the New Year as this year as they expected it to be a year of change. It is the change that they expect from the general elections due in 2019. Actually, people took time to...
CM’s Blunder Revives BJP-RSS Agitation
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A ‘Left-Right combination’ has left Kerala staggering, and turned the state into a political battleground. Ironically, the New Year began with a bang for the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government. The Women’s Wall programme launched by the LDF was acclaimed as a runaway...
Did Modi pressed reset button in the New Year Day interview with ANI
It seems prime minister Narendra Modi has pressed the reset button with the recent expansive interview with news agency ANI. He portrayed himself as a statesman who is committed to constitutional process. Televised on New Year Day, Modi defended his government’s record without bitterness to the opposition, even though...
‘Voiceless collateral victims of hartal’
By Aditya Aamir It was another ‘hartal’ in hartal-country Kerala on Thursday, the fourth since September 28, 2018, and the first of 2019. Petrified public transport buses are stranded in transport hubs across the state and even if shops and other commercial establishments are presenting a strong face, lack...
Small Parties Flourish With Weak Governments
By Rahil Nora Chopra An old saying in Indian politics is that small and regional parties always favour a weaker government over a strong one. The late BSP Leader Kanshi Ram had always claimed that the party would flourish only when there is a weak government. With the...
Religion Does Not Appeal To The Hungry
By Sagarneel Sinha One of the important lessons that political parties should learn from the assembly election results of the last leg of 2018 is that the voters are more concerned about issues which affect their daily lives. The three states namely Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan that...
Ngos, Bureaucrats Loot Money Meant For Manual Scavengers
By Arun Srivastava The Swachh Bharat Mission ostensibly aims to achieve safe sanitation for all by 2019 but even with the arrival of the year, the mission has not acquired a pan-India shape. Worst still, it has become a mechanism to usurp public money. From the babus to...
Arun Jaitley Had No Answers To Rahul’s Five Questions On Rafale
By Nitya Chakraborty Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s 40 minute reply to Rahul Gandhi’s attacks on the Rafale deal on Wednesday in Lok Sabha had all the qualities of a legal luminary and an orator but it had no answers to the pointed questions raised by the Congress President against...
Kerala Teeters On Pinarayi’s Direction
By Sushil Kutty Rafale is not the issue in Kerala. Swami Ayyappa is. Unrest is on the move everywhere in the state after two child-bearing age women entered the Sabarimala temple Wednesday morning. Clashes between agitating Sangh Parivaar cadre and CPM workers claimed one life Wednesday evening. Chief Minister...
Last minute economic reforms needed for Modi to lure voters
In politics one week period may be too long, but for comprehensive economic reforms which should be meaningful a four-month time is too short. Seriously, the Modi government is up against time now as 2019 General Elections are just ahead. Commentators and economic historians may become busy these few...
Swami Ayyappan Loses His Celibacy For 4 Minutes
By Aditya Aamir ‘Yuvatis’ Kanaka Durga and Bindu sneaked into Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple in the wee hours of January 2, 2019. Victory! Temple Chief Tantri Kandraru Rajeevaru closed shut the temple doors and “purified” the temple precincts. Humiliation! Only then was the temple reopened for male Ayyappa devotees....
Kamal Nath Govt Wilts Under Mayawati Ultimatum
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: The Congress government in Madhya Pradesh has averted a political crisis by agreeing to withdraw all “politically motivated” cases filed by the previous BJP government as demanded by BSP leader Mayawati. The decision comes within a day of Mayawati threatening to reconsider her...
