Tag: Congress
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Why ‘Operation Kamal’ in Jharkhand cant be taken lightly
Ranchi: If seeing the profile of the arrested three persons makes you think that the attempt to overthrow the Hemant Soren-led Mahagathbandhan government in Jharkhand is not a serious issue, then you have to think twice. The attempt to topple the Soren government has been going on since long. Soon after Uttar Pradesh’s Congress leader…
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Damoh defeat brings to the fore dissensions within Madhya Pradesh BJP
The defeat of BJP candidate Rahul Singh Lodhi at the hands of Ajay Kumar Tandon of the Congress in the Damoh Assembly by-election (held in April-May) has brought to the fore the deep-rooted dissensions within the State unit of the party. The State leadership suspended from the primary membership of the party half a dozen…
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Caligula cries: PM Modi’s tearful farewell to Ghulam Nabi Azad
Even Caligula cried. Images of the third Roman emperor popped up in my mind when I watched our prime minister crying on the floor of Rajya Sabha when he bid farewell to Gulam Nabi Azad, the veteran Congress leader from former Jammu &Kashmir state. Choked with emotion, he was unable to speak for a few…
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100 years on, time for another Non-Cooperation Movement
he year 2020 marks the centenary of the Non-Cooperation Movement, which began on September 5, 1920. Before that, the country had erupted in protest against the Draconian Rowlatt Act imposed by the colonial rulers. The Rowlatt Act was the imposition of a much more severe martial law meant to terrorise the Indian populace into subjugation.…
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CBI, country’s premier crime investigation agency, losing trust of the people
Maharashtra’s is the latest non-BJP government to withdraw general consent to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for taking up investigation of a crime in the State on its own. Rajasthan, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Punjab have already done that. This shows the growing distrust of the people in the CBI. Under the relevant law,…
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Madhya Pradesh Assembly by-elections and disquiet within the ruling BJP
The 28 Assembly by-elections in Madhya Pradesh are becoming more problematic for the ruling BJP than for Congress. Of the BJP candidates, 22 are those who had quit Congress along with Jyotiraditya Scindia, to bring down the Congress government of Kamal Nath, resigned from the Assembly and joined BJP. They are at the root of…
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CM Yogi should resign: Md Salim
Kolkata: The Left and the Congress jointly organised a mega rally in Kolkata on Tuesday against the gang rape of a dalit woman in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh, by upper-caste men. Both have also held state-wide protests in other districts as well on the day. A 19-year-old dalit girl was allegedly raped at a village in…
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‘The PM’ India never had
rom Union Finance Ministry to Political Oblivion to being the first Bengali President, the ‘Chanakya’ of Indian politics had tasted it all. Despite being the first citizen of the country, Pranab Mukherjee, more commonly known as Pranab da, never missed Durga Puja at his ancestral home in Birbhum. Mukherjee who adorned the highest citadel of…
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Retaliatory Muslim violence will only help the Hindutva forces
The communal provocations by the ruling Sangh Parivar forces and retaliatory Muslim violence faced different responses from ruling parties in states in tune with the political preferences of the regimes. In BJP-ruled Karnataka, on 11 August night Bengaluru police was asked to open fire on a violent Muslim mob which was demanding immediate arrest of…
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Congress lost the ‘will’ to survive in May 2014
Congress seemed to have lost the will to survive as an effectual political party on May 16, 2014 when the Lok Sabha election results were announced and Narendra Modi’s BJP bagged 282 seats out of 543 while Congress was reduced to a rump with 44 seats, not enough even to claim the post of Leader…