Can Modi Deliver Change with Continuity

June 12, 2024

Modi Cabinet 3.0 is in place and the one thing that stands out is the theme of continuity. The Big Four ministries see the old familiar faces back in the saddle. Amit Shah, S Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Rajnath Singh are back at the Ministries of Home, Foreign Affairs, Finance...

Akhilesh Yadav Emerges as Man of the Match

June 5, 2024

While the BJP is still the single largest party, fought on the Prime Minister’s appeal, the man of the match is clearly from the Opposition. It’s not Rahul Gandhi, but instead Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party leader who has played a critical role in stemming the BJP’s march back to...

BJP wants to change Constitution according to its ideology: Mallikarjun Kharge

June 1, 2024

Q: Sir, The Congress has been making a big deal about the BJP’s slogan, if they get ‘400 paar’ they will change the Constitution, to which the BJP countering and saying that if anyone has amended the Constitution 80 times it is the Congress. If anyone has misused Art. 356,...

BJP will change constitution, take away Fundamental Rights: Kharge

May 31, 2024

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, in an exclusive interview to Priya Sahgal, said that the mood of the people is to ‘Remove Modi’. That’s why he’s saying all sorts of things now… ‘naachne wale, gaane wale, mujre wale,’ cows, bulls, ‘mangal sutra’ -- all this he’s saying out of frustration. The...

Congress Allies Vs BJP’s Allies

May 29, 2024

While the Congress is fight ing these elections in an al liance the BJP too has tied up with other NDA part ners. However the irony is that while the I.N.D.IA bloc allies seem to be hold ing their own, the feedback is not as sanguine for BJP’s allies. The...

A game well played by Oppn

May 22, 2024

With the election having crossed the halfway mark, the big ticket question now is, where has the vote gone? Before the elections began the general feeling was that the elections were just a formality, the process would be a walkover for the Modi government. However after the first phase of...

The OPPOSITION FIGHTS BACK

May 15, 2024

The Lok Sabha elections seem to have reached an interesting turning point with the Opposition daring to dream of an unexpected setback for the BJP. While one could argue that the gap between the BJP and the Congress is way too wide for such optimism there are some factors to...

One hopes the means will honour the ends

May 8, 2024

The Lok Sabha polls are poised very interestingly at the halfway mark, with three of the seven phases completed by 7th May - and one month into the poll campaign. While there is no one issue that is dominating, a couple of narratives have held sway. The Opposition has been...

WILL RAHUL GANDHI CONTEST FROM UTTAR PRADESH?

May 1, 2024

At the time of writing the Congress Party had not yet announced its candidates for Amethi and Rae Bareli. The two constituencies are in the news, since they are considered the Gandhi family bastions, though currently it is BJP’s Smriti Irani who is the sitting MP from Amethi. She has...

An Election without a Wave?

April 24, 2024

Is this an election without a wave ? In fact the only wave in this election seems to be the heat wave rather than an overwhelming surge in favour of any one candidate or party. The dominant figure in the elections continues to be Prime Minister, Narendra Modi; the entire...