An Insight
IS FEDERAL FRONT A NON-STARTER TRS President and Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has tried to give a new ideological push to the idea of a third front or federal front, in its latest avatar, by saying that it would bring about qualitative change in governance. Blaming the BJP and Congress led coalitions for […]
When the BJP came to power in 2014 with a clear cut majority, the first time for any political party in nearly a quarter century, the mood of the nation and the expectation was that the Narendra Modi led BJP headed National Democratic Alliance would easily win another five year term later, if not more. […]
With victory in Jharkhand and a strong show in Jammu and Kashmir, the BJP is well on its way to realization of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s quest for absolute power. The opposition, especially the erstwhile ruling party, the Congress party, is nowhere to be seen. At least, the so-called secular forces have failed to put […]
It would be funny if it were not tragic when elements in the BJP, India’s ruling party, and the media seek to imply that the party is trying to gag ‘loose cannons’ to restore Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s focus on his ‘development agenda’. In fact, the raising of the communal temperature, which heightens tensions, in […]
An interesting battle is building up in the Maharashtra Assembly elections , with old alliances breaking up but new combines yet not on the horizon. Constituents of the two major opposite camps in the state have fallen out, making it anybody’s game in the coming October 15 , 2014 Assembly elections. The Congress and the […]
The Uttar Pradesh unit of the BJP may have dropped the reference to what is being dubbed as Love Jihad at its conclave in Mathura, but it cannot be construed as a signal that the party is giving up its apparent policy of polarisation to create a communal divide and garner the votes of the […]
Prabhu called me this morning and said that everybody has to come to the aid of the party in view of the desperate situation developing in the abode he still presides over. Prabhu said that as every one knows, he has stopped interfering in the running of the earth and has been confining himself primarily […]
India is facing a unique situation today, needing to make the choice between two opposed ideologies and personalities. On the one side is the overactive erstwhile Subaydar of Gujarat, who has now vanquished the rulers of Delhi and taken over the Sultanate of Delhi, which he had been reviling till the other day. He is following a […]