Shikha Mukerjee | Rahul’s role as Congress’ heir not at all apparent
2 years, 7 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Rahul’s role as Congress’ heir not at all apparent

Deccan Chronicle  

Rahul Gandhi’s role as heir to the 137-year-old Congress Party is very apparent after the Udaipur “Nav Vikalp Chintan Shivir”. After abdicating his post as party president following the dismal performance of the Congress in the 2019 general election, it is appropriate to ask, in what capacity did Rahul Gandhi address the assembled party leaders, the media and, by extension, India’s voters at the end of the Chintan Shivir? The international community has articulated it in surveys and the media, the most recent being the Economist’s cover story summing it up neatly as “India’s moment: Will Modi blow it?” The magazine notes that “the biggest threat to all this is India’s incendiary politics”, that is the simmering religious tensions “stoked by the anti-Muslim chauvinism of the Bharatiya Janata Party, in power since 2014 under the strongman Prime Minister, Narendra Modi”. With its back to the wall, almost no political capital, it wasn’t clever of Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to dismiss the regional parties as caste- based, parochial organisations that lacked the specific ideological ammunition necessary to take on an adversary like the BJP.

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Shikha Mukerjee | India’s leaders must leave the world of virtual reality
1 week ago

Shikha Mukerjee | India’s leaders must leave the world of virtual reality

Deccan Chronicle  

Rhetorical flourishes are a bad idea to begin with. Instead of responding to the distress, the Congress chose to turn it into a cheap jibe targeting Narendra Modi government; Jairam Ramesh, the party’s communications in-charge, seized on the indicator as the “dubious distinction” earned “of being the only government in the history of Independent India to steal mangalsutras from women.” …

BJP leaders accuse Rahul Gandhi of ‘act of vandalism’, call for strict action
3 weeks, 5 days ago

BJP leaders accuse Rahul Gandhi of ‘act of vandalism’, call for strict action

Hindustan Times  

Parliament has become a “space for wrestlers and goons”, Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said on Thursday as he accused Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi of assaulting two Bharatiya Janata Party MPs in the Parliament complex even as his party colleagues sought “statutory action” against the Congress leader for his act of “vandalism”. Calling Gandhi’s …

Shikha Mukerjee | Centralising India amidst imperatives of coalitions
4 weeks ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Centralising India amidst imperatives of coalitions

Deccan Chronicle  

Reversing the inexorable advance towards centralisation of executive power, programmes and election schedules reflected in the Narendra Modi 0.3 government’s rush to get legislative approval for the “One Nation-One Election” blueprint appears impossible. The need to come back again and again to why the losses in Haryana and Maharashtra were damaging to the INDIA bloc’s effectiveness in Parliament and in …

Shikha Mukerjee | Mismatched vocabularies in Maha and Jharkhand battle
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Mismatched vocabularies in Maha and Jharkhand battle

Deccan Chronicle  

Following the rigmarole of politicians pitching for votes has never been as befuddling as it is in this round of state Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand. The BJP’s difficulties are further complicated by the direct and indirect criticism of the “Batange-Katange” rhetoric voiced by Ajit Pawar and chief minister Eknath Shinde, the icons of the other side who split …

Rahul Gandhi lacks maturity, Congress unlikely to progress under him: Kiren Rijiju
2 months ago

Rahul Gandhi lacks maturity, Congress unlikely to progress under him: Kiren Rijiju

India Today  

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Saturday said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was "immature" and asserted no one can become a leader by running down India abroad. Addressing a press conference in Pune, Rijiju also said the Mahayuti, comprising the BJP, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar-led NCP, will win the November 20 Maharashtra polls comfortably as the …

Shikha Mukerjee | Census, caste & citizenship: Spin to win in endless cycle
2 months, 1 week ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Census, caste & citizenship: Spin to win in endless cycle

Deccan Chronicle  

The obviously leaked stories about the launch in 2025 of the long-delayed Census and the move to keep everyone guessing on whether the exercise will include a caste-based enumeration are guaranteed to rekindle the public’s interest and rebuild the BJP’s and its helmsman Narendra Modi’s political capital. The timing of the leaks suggests that the politically astute Mr Modi and …

Congress Showcases Nephew Raihan in Diwali Video: A Soft Launch for the Fifth-Generation Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra Family Member
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Congress Showcases Nephew Raihan in Diwali Video: A Soft Launch for the Fifth-Generation Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra Family Member

India Today  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi released a Diwali video featuring his nephew Raihan in it. The video is a rare showcasing of Raihan, the son of Priyanka Gandhi and Robert Vadra. People, both pro- and anti-Congress, are seeing the video as a 'soft launch' of the fifth-generation Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra family member.

The India Coalition's Narrative: A Battle for Votes in Maharashtra and Jharkhand
2 months, 2 weeks ago

The India Coalition's Narrative: A Battle for Votes in Maharashtra and Jharkhand

Deccan Chronicle  

The Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections are about how the INDIA coalition reads, implements and performs on the basis of the Lok Sabha verdict and the 2019 state Assembly results. The contest is between two coalitions, regular teams that are playing against each other. Each member of each team is equally critical to pulling off a victory or delivering a defeat. …

Congress's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra: A Game-Changer in the Making
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Congress's Priyanka Gandhi Vadra: A Game-Changer in the Making

India Today  

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's entry into Indian politics is set to be a historic moment as she files her nomination as a Congress candidate in Wayanad, a seat vacated by her brother, Rahul Gandhi. This move is seen as a reaffirmation of the Gandhi family's commitment to maintaining their political legacy and influence. If Priyanka wins, it would be a historic …

Uddhav, Sharad Pawar To Join Rahul Gandhi For Congress Rally In Mumbai On Aug 20 As MVA Mulls CM Face
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Uddhav, Sharad Pawar To Join Rahul Gandhi For Congress Rally In Mumbai On Aug 20 As MVA Mulls CM Face

ABP News  

Congress is all set to celebrate the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on August 20 in Mumbai. On the day, the Maha Vikas Aghadi leaders Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar will be sharing the stage with Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi as the alliance will likely sound the poll bugle on the day. Besides …

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Caste Aspersions’: Here’s The Congress Strategy Behind Halwa Ceremony Bitter Note
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Caste Aspersions’: Here’s The Congress Strategy Behind Halwa Ceremony Bitter Note

News 18  

The Congress has struck a bitter note in the halwa ceremony before the Budget presentation, with Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi raising the issue of caste of the officers seen with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Senior Congress leader and Rahul Gandhi’s mother Sonia Gandhi hit out at the BJP saying: “It is clear that the government has no intention whatsoever to …

Rahul: Assess Congress’s LS performance in K’taka
7 months, 1 week ago

Rahul: Assess Congress’s LS performance in K’taka

Hindustan Times  

Following the Lok Sabha election results in Karnataka, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi convened a meeting in Bengaluru on Friday with newly elected Members of Parliament and losing candidates to assess the party’s performance. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah and State Dy CM DK Shivakumar Addressing the media following the meeting, deputy chief minister and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president DK Shivakumar said …

Rahul Gandhi Vote For BJP Congress MP Edited Video
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Rahul Gandhi Vote For BJP Congress MP Edited Video

ABP News  

The Verdict: False The original footage shows Rahul Gandhi endorsing Congress, not the BJP. Social media users have shared a video of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi purportedly asking people to vote for the rival Bharatiya Janata Party in the ongoing Indian general elections. And on the other side, BJP and RSS are making efforts to protect the Constitution and democracy.” …

Lok Sabha Elections Highlights: Sanjay Nirupam returns to Shiv Sena
8 months, 1 week ago

Lok Sabha Elections Highlights: Sanjay Nirupam returns to Shiv Sena

Hindustan Times  

May 3, 2024 12:32 PM IST Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: In an X post, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said: "Many people have many opinions on the news of Rahul Gandhi contesting elections from Rae Bareli. • As far as the Gandhi family's stronghold is concerned, not just Amethi-Rae Bareli, the entire country from north to south is the stronghold …

Lok Sabha Elections Highlights: Sanjay Nirupam returns to Shiv Sena
8 months, 1 week ago

Lok Sabha Elections Highlights: Sanjay Nirupam returns to Shiv Sena

Hindustan Times  

May 3, 2024 12:32 PM IST Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live: In an X post, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said: "Many people have many opinions on the news of Rahul Gandhi contesting elections from Rae Bareli. • As far as the Gandhi family's stronghold is concerned, not just Amethi-Rae Bareli, the entire country from north to south is the stronghold …

Amethi Cong leader says he went to meet Smriti Irani. Photo claims he ‘joined BJP’
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Amethi Cong leader says he went to meet Smriti Irani. Photo claims he ‘joined BJP’

Hindustan Times  

Amethi Congress leader Vikas Agrahari on Thursday said he did not join the BJP as claimed by news reports showing his photo with Amethi MP Smriti Irani. Amethi Congress leader Vikas Agrahari refuted reports of his joining the BJP after his photo with Smriti Irani went viral. On the photo with Smriti Irani in which Vikas Agrahari can be seen …

Unable to face me, Congress has brought in Rahul, says Kumaraswamy
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Unable to face me, Congress has brought in Rahul, says Kumaraswamy

The Hindu  

Former Chief Minister and Janata Dal candidate for Mandya Lok Sabha constituency H.D. Mr Kumaraswamy said the Congress leaders in the State have brought in Mr. Gandhi to defeat him in the elections since they have no strength to face him and therefore are holding a rally for Mr. Gandhi in Mandya. The people have already decided to support me …

Ahead of elections, Priyanka’s role within Congress on gradual rise
9 months, 1 week ago

Ahead of elections, Priyanka’s role within Congress on gradual rise

Hindustan Times  

After confining her political activity in just a few pockets of Uttar Pradesh for years, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has finally expanded her role in the campaigning for the 2024 Lok Sabha election. To remove unemployment, he had made big promises, made big announcements, but he did not fulfil even a single one,” Gandhi Vadra said at the public …

In Chandrapur, Congress struggles to unite amidst leadership tensions
9 months, 2 weeks ago

In Chandrapur, Congress struggles to unite amidst leadership tensions

The Hindu  

The Congress laid speculation to rest by announcing Pratibha Dhanorkar as its candidate for the Chandrapur Lok Sabha seat in Maharashtra on Saturday night. Sources within the party told The Hindu that Mr. Wadettiwar conveyed to the high command that only his family could effectively challenge the BJP’s Sudhir Mungantiwar, the incumbent Forest Minister in the Eknath Shinde-led government. “During …

Lok Sabha Polls: Chouhan Hits Campaign Trail with Train Travel from Bhopal to Ganjbasoda in MP
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Lok Sabha Polls: Chouhan Hits Campaign Trail with Train Travel from Bhopal to Ganjbasoda in MP

News 18  

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister and BJP Lok Sabha candidate Shivraj Singh Chouhan, known for his down-to-earth approach, on Thursday opted to travel by train in second-class compartment to his constituency, which he fondly terms his ”karmabhoomi”. #WATCH | Bhopal: Former Madhya Pradesh CM and BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan travels in a passenger train for the campaign in Ganj …

Rasheed Kidwai says Congress has confused ideology, Rahul Gandhi has no resonance with voters
10 months ago

Rasheed Kidwai says Congress has confused ideology, Rahul Gandhi has no resonance with voters

Op India  

On 10th March, journalist-turned-YouTuber Barkha Dutt published an interview with journalist Rasheed Kidwai. Kidwai’s insights about the Congress party provided deeper information about the challenges that have plagued it over the years which varied from leadership issues to ideological vacuity. According to Kidwai, Gandhi had a serious lack of confidence and decisiveness which are hallmarks of effective leadership which eventually …

Congress president recalls close association of the Gandhi family after he joins Rahul Gandhi in Amethi for Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Congress president recalls close association of the Gandhi family after he joins Rahul Gandhi in Amethi for Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra

The Hindu  

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge joined the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on February 19 as it reached Rahul Gandhi’s former Lok Sabha constituency of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh and recalled the close association of the Gandhi family with the people of Amethi and Rae Bareli. While Mr. Gandhi lost to BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Z. Irani in the 2019 …

How The Hindu consoled itself and shielded Rahul Gandhi after electoral drubbing in 3 states: Blaming regional leaders, voters, Hindutva and more
1 year, 1 month ago

How The Hindu consoled itself and shielded Rahul Gandhi after electoral drubbing in 3 states: Blaming regional leaders, voters, Hindutva and more

Op India  

By now, we are all used to the Congress party leaders crediting the Gandhi family for victories and blaming the regional leaders for their defeats. The Hindu, in a great show of loyalty towards the Gandhi family, asks us – Did overconfident regional leaders in the Hindi heartland pay no heed to Congress top brass? That The Hindu wrote We …

Three-time MP Ravi Prakash Verma joins Congress
1 year, 2 months ago

Three-time MP Ravi Prakash Verma joins Congress

Hindustan Times  

: Senior Samajwadi Party leader Ravi Prakash Verma, along with his daughter Purvi Verma and a large number of followers, joined the Congress at the party headquarters here on Monday. Others who joined the Congress on Monday included BSP’s Nawab Faizan Ali Khan and Nav Bharat Party president Raj Bahadur. Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee president Ajay Rai welcomed them into …

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress must forge unity out of its internal diversity
1 year, 3 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress must forge unity out of its internal diversity

Deccan Chronicle  

The Congress Party is entirely truthful when its leader Rahul Gandhi acknowledges that the party is not an organisation; his take is that it is a movement. The three challenges are -- one, to convert the “movement” into an organisation to fight the five state elections in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha battle; two, iron out wrinkles, frictions, …

Congress Vijayabheri creates ripples of hope of victory
1 year, 3 months ago

Congress Vijayabheri creates ripples of hope of victory

Deccan Chronicle  

TUKKUGUDA: Exactly seventy-five years after, to the date, the Congress party pantheon from Delhi and other parts of India, put their focus on Hyderabad, and with means vastly different, but with an eerie similarity in the objectives and ends, came forth to herald a season of hope of a change of regime, of victory, and of unleashing a welfare state …

Shikha Mukerjee | INDIA gets set, preparing for liftoff; BJP gets jitters
1 year, 4 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | INDIA gets set, preparing for liftoff; BJP gets jitters

Deccan Chronicle  

After the successful meeting of the INDIA parties in Mumbai, which had ended with a slogan: “Judega Bharat, Jeetega INDIA”; the 29-party INDIA collective is ready to lift off. This is not to argue that INDIA as an alliance is set to defeat the BJP and oust Narendra Modi from power should a snap Lok Sabha election be called by …

Rahul Gandhi Return To Parliament Will Bring Positive Changes In Manipur Congress Chief Keisham Meghachandra Modi Surname Case Supreme Court
1 year, 5 months ago

Rahul Gandhi Return To Parliament Will Bring Positive Changes In Manipur Congress Chief Keisham Meghachandra Modi Surname Case Supreme Court

ABP News  

Guwahati: The Manipur Pradesh Congress Committee on Friday expressed confidence that senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's return to Parliament will help usher in peace in the state that has been on a boil since the outbreak of ethnic clashes on May 3 this year. Addressing a presser, MPCC chief, Keisham Meghachandra said, “The Supreme Court’s stay on Rahul Gandhi’s conviction …

In Congress meet on Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi says 'BJP can be defeated, if...'
1 year, 6 months ago

In Congress meet on Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi says 'BJP can be defeated, if...'

India TV News  

Rajasthan Congress: The top Congress leaders, including party president Mallikarjun Kharge and former chief Rahul Gandhi, held a crucial meeting with the Rajasthan leaders to discuss the poll strategy and preparedness as the Assembly elections are due in the state later this year. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, former party chief Rahul Gandhi, AICC in-charge of state Sukhjinder Randhawa and several …

What is ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ and why it is still very much in progress
1 year, 7 months ago

What is ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ and why it is still very much in progress

Firstpost  

Around December of 2017, the BJP and its supporters would take much delight in sharing the political map of India. And now it is the turn of the Congress and its supporters to mock the BJP with things like “BJP-mukt South India”. In Andhra Pradesh, the Congress now has just 1 per cent of the vote. In 1997, Kalyan Singh …

Rahul Gandhi is next PM, says Vundavalli
1 year, 7 months ago

Rahul Gandhi is next PM, says Vundavalli

Deccan Chronicle  

KAKINADA: Former Rajamahendravaram MP Vundavalli Aruna Kumar on Friday declared that Rahul Gandhi has developed into a mature leader and Congress will come to power in the next Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Rahul. Arun Kumar felt that the countdown for defeat of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the forthcoming LS polls has started with the Karnataka assembly …

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress' main challenge is burden of expectations
1 year, 7 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress' main challenge is burden of expectations

Deccan Chronicle  

After its decisive victory in Karnataka, the Congress Party now has to live up to the expectations it has raised. The win is as much an unequivocal verdict against Narendra Modi’s vision of “One Party, One Nation, One Leader” and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s conviction that its organisation can convert anti-incumbency into a renewed mandate, as it is an endorsement …

Shikha Mukerjee | India's political topography starts to look a bit different
1 year, 8 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | India's political topography starts to look a bit different

Deccan Chronicle  

As hard as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party may try and convince the masses that the more things seem to change, the more they remain the same, the inevitability of change and its effects on the political topography of India are undeniable. Mr Kharge’s letter to Mr Modi demanding that the postponed Census of 2021 be immediately done and …

Rahul, Congress have no right to talk about democracy: Kishan
1 year, 9 months ago

Rahul, Congress have no right to talk about democracy: Kishan

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Neither Rahul Gandhi, nor his Congress need to lecture the country about democracy and democratic values, Union minister G. Kishan Reddy said on Tuesday, adding that it was the Congress that overthrew around 90 state governments of which the Gandhi family was responsible for 75 events. Speaking to reporters outside the Parliament House in New Delhi, Kishan Reddy said …

Shikha Mukerjee | Time and tide will not wait for the Opposition to unite
1 year, 9 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Time and tide will not wait for the Opposition to unite

Deccan Chronicle  

Opposition unity is a work in progress. The initiative by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to visit Bihar and then West Bengal is yet another exercise in consolidating an anti-BJP core of political leaders, not all of whom are as rabidly anti-Congress as Trinamul Congress founder and leader Mamata Banerjee. Even if he did not publicly endorse Mamata Banerjee’s frontal …

BJP calls Rahul Gandhi present-day Mir Jafar of Indian politics; Congress adamant on 'no apology'
1 year, 9 months ago

BJP calls Rahul Gandhi present-day Mir Jafar of Indian politics; Congress adamant on 'no apology'

India TV News  

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday called Congress leader Rahul Gandhi the "present-day Mir Jafar of Indian polity" and sought an apology from the Wayanad MP for his in the United Kingdom. Attacking the Congress leader, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said that Rahul Gandhi wants to become 'nawab' in India for which he is seeking help from …

Rahul sought to shame India\'s democracy, in grip of \'Maoist\' thought process: BJP
1 year, 10 months ago

Rahul sought to shame India\'s democracy, in grip of \'Maoist\' thought process: BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday accused Rahul Gandhi of insulting India's democracy from foreign land and lashed out for his trenchant criticism of the government and RSS at events in Britain, claiming it is its clear conviction that he is completely in the grip of "Maoist thought process through his minions" and also "anarchist elements". Addressing a press conference, …

Shikha Mukerjee | Kharge’s strategy: How the Congress can corner Modi
1 year, 11 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Kharge’s strategy: How the Congress can corner Modi

Deccan Chronicle  

It was a perverse force of circumstances that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP had to contend with when the Budget Session of Parliament began on January 31. The shift in Mr Modi’s and the BJP’s position happened in the time it took for the discussion on the motion of thanks on the President’s address to move from …

Shikha Mukerjee | How the three-shell trick works in India’s politics
2 years ago

Shikha Mukerjee | How the three-shell trick works in India’s politics

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s political theatre is tricky enough to negotiate. Through 2023, the most fiercely monitored leaders will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, in his new avatar, after walking and talking his way across India. In 2023, these two narratives — Bharat Jodo versus Bharat Todo — will confront each other in nine separate state elections across India, from …

DC Edit | Two CMs, divergent challenges
2 years, 1 month ago

DC Edit | Two CMs, divergent challenges

Deccan Chronicle  

The Congress and the BJP have chosen their legislature party leaders in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, respectively, in their own time-tested ways without giving much space for haggling. The BJP, which experimented with three chief ministers ever since Narendra Modi who left for New Delhi in 2014 after being in the top post for 13 years, has chosen to continue …

Congress gears up for major organisational changes | Here is what is in store
2 years, 2 months ago

Congress gears up for major organisational changes | Here is what is in store

India Today  

It was on July 3, 2019, when the then Congress President Rahul Gandhi in his four-page resignation letter had stated, “Rebuilding the party requires hard decisions.” This sums up what lies in store as far as organisational changes in the Congress are concerned. On October 26, 2022, when Mallikarjun Kharge took charge of the party as its president, he acknowledged …

Review: Ideology And Organization In Indian Politics; Polarisation and the Growing Crisis of The Congress Party (2009-19) by Zoya Hasan
2 years, 2 months ago

Review: Ideology And Organization In Indian Politics; Polarisation and the Growing Crisis of The Congress Party (2009-19) by Zoya Hasan

Hindustan Times  

At the annual meeting of the British South Asian Studies Association at Royal Holloway College, London, there were several papers and panels on the AAP party but none on the Congress. While it is widely recognised that the life of the Congress party and modern India converges, there is very little research interest in it among scholars from India and …

Shikha Mukerjee | Nitish’s Bihar ‘coup’ to set off tremors across India
2 years, 5 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Nitish’s Bihar ‘coup’ to set off tremors across India

Deccan Chronicle  

What Nitish Kumar pulled off in Bihar through a flawlessly executed political manoeuvre against the BJP and its top leadership is like a thunderbolt out of the blue. Nitish Kumar is the last of the politically active and physically robust survivors of the Mandal versus Kamandal war of the 1990s.Through all the years of his alliance with the BJP in …

First Read | Unravelling the tale of nepotism and dynasty politics in Congress
2 years, 6 months ago

First Read | Unravelling the tale of nepotism and dynasty politics in Congress

Firstpost  

The book not only makes for an interesting read but should also kick off the next round of debate on how the oldest political party of India has become a family enterprise The long and dreary tale of the Congress turning from a political party to a family fiefdom that is often accused of promoting corruption and nepotism, is most …

Anita Katyal | Uddhav should’ve kept home to self; some in Opp. for Sinha grandstand
2 years, 6 months ago

Anita Katyal | Uddhav should’ve kept home to self; some in Opp. for Sinha grandstand

Deccan Chronicle  

Embattled Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray must be ruing the day he agreed to gift the home ministry to the Nationalist Congress party two years ago during their negotiations on distribution of portfolios. * When Charanjit Singh Channi was appointed Punjab chief minister, Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi had announced with grand flourish that he was the state’s first dalit chief …

Shikha Mukerjee | Silence can’t be an option: Why Modi must leash ‘fringe’ bhakts
2 years, 7 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Silence can’t be an option: Why Modi must leash ‘fringe’ bhakts

Deccan Chronicle  

The decision of the BJP’s most popular leader with high approval ratings from the RSS, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to stay silent, for a week, on the deliberately provocative and obviously incendiary remarks about Prophet Mohammad by a party national spokesperson on television is a signal. The world and India is astounded by the apparently sincere avowals of the Narendra …

Shikha Mukerjee | To save Congress, its state units could take own path
2 years, 7 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | To save Congress, its state units could take own path

Deccan Chronicle  

The regularity of the departure announcements from the Congress, led by Sonia Gandhi and her proxy, Rahul Gandhi-Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, confirms and signals several things. India, free of the Congress, would have a fixed destination, that would also be a dead-end of a hard Right communally divisive, majoritarian identity politics couched in the hyper-nationalist narrative of the BJP’s Hindutva agenda …

Congress played roadblock on issues like Ram Mandir, Article 370: Hardik Patel in parting note for Gandhis
2 years, 7 months ago

Congress played roadblock on issues like Ram Mandir, Article 370: Hardik Patel in parting note for Gandhis

India TV News  

Highlights Hardik Patel came into the limelight after he led Patidar quota stir in Gujarat ahead of 2017 polls He resigned days after Rahul Gandhi's Gujarat visit where polls will be held later this year Sources told India TV that Hardik Patel could join the BJP in a week Hardik Patel resigns from Congress: In a big blow to Congress …

HD Kumaraswamy slams Rahul Gandhi, claims Congress has phobia of 'regional parties'
2 years, 7 months ago

HD Kumaraswamy slams Rahul Gandhi, claims Congress has phobia of 'regional parties'

Firstpost  

In his address at his party’s ‘Chintan Shivir’in Udaipur, Rahul had claimed that regional parties cannot fight the BJP and the RSS as they lack ideology Bengaluru: Congress is facing a phobia of regional parties, JD leader HD Kumaraswamy said on Monday while taking a swipe at the grand old party leader Rahul Gandhi for his critical comments on those …

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