The RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent visit to the Kaushalya temple in Chhattisgarh following an invitation from Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel has stirred up a fresh row between the ruling Congress and the principal Opposition BJP in the state. Last Tuesday, Bhagwat, accompanied by the Chhattisgarh RSS functionaries went toRead More →
Party to the consensus decision in Bihar to hold a caste census, the BJP, which is part of the government in the state, has put forward some riders. Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal said at the all-party meeting on the issue that they want the government to ensure that “noRead More →
With five leading candidates in the fray for four Rajya Sabha seats, Rajasthan is headed for yet another political slugfest and sequestering of MLAs. On Tuesday, the last day of filing nominations, the Congress’s Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari filed their nominations, as did the BJP’s GhanshyamRead More →
At a time when political parties, including its allies, are escalating demands for a caste census, the BJP has chosen its formula of “political empowerment” of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Dalits by focussing on them while nominating candidates for the June 10 Rajya Sabha polls. More than halfRead More →
Among the Congress Rajya Sabha choices that have led to heartburn in party ranks, the case of Mohd Imran Khan a.k.a Imran Pratapgarhi is the most surprising. The 34-year-old poet-turned-politician from Uttar Pradesh has got the nomination from Maharashtra, ahead of several seasoned leaders, who made their disappointment public. HonouredRead More →
Snub to R C P Singh is not the first time Nitish Kumar has handled any sign of dissidence with a strong, precise hand. In a state with bigger mass leaders, it is this that has helped the Bihar Chief Minister seize control of the ruling Janata Dal (United) andRead More →
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Sunday indicated that the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), his party, and the Congress, its ally, had buried their differences over a Rajya Sabha seat up for grabs from the eastern state in an election scheduled for June 10. Soren said he held an “extensive”Read More →
Haradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda served as the Prime Minister of India for 324 days — from June 1, 1996, to April 21, 1997. Deve Gowda was sworn in as the country’s 12th PM in a dramatic political development that unfolded following the fall of the 13-day Atal Bihari Vajpayee governmentRead More →
Anbumani Ramadoss was named the president of the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) – the party founded by his father S Ramadoss – on Saturday, thus becoming the latest inheritor of a political legacy in Tamil Nadu. If the major strength of the PMK is its significant vote base among theRead More →
Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind chief Maulana Mahmood Asad Madani Saturday said that the government had turned a blind eye to the hardships that Muslims in the country were facing. Madani was speaking at a two-day meeting of its management committee which began on Saturday. “The country is going through a phase ofRead More →
