The opposition in India hopefully and happily draws parallels between Donald Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, it has no real answers to why the former lost in 2020 and the latter won in 2019. A new year and a new decade began for the United States, and perhaps for the entire world, in …
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The government’s adamant insistence on the 3 farms bills signals an either-or situation. Either Modi has miscalculated the entire gamble or he wants to pit poor and marginal farmers against the middleclass and rich farmers. Everything works for Modi and nothing works against him. This has been the experience of Narendra Modi’s friends and foes …
The letter written by 23 Congress leaders has immediately achieved four objectives for the Congress party irrespective of the intentions of its signatories, and lifted the party out of its stupor. Sonia Gandhi’s term as the interim president of the Congress party ended this month. A year ago, she reluctantly accepted the responsibility despite knowing …
The lessons for Congress party from Jyotiraditya Scindia’s exit episode are simple and straightforward. A leader, who has been very close to Rahul Gandhi and was sharing charge of Uttar Pradesh with Priyanka Gandhi until recently, developed a deep sense of uselessness about whatever he was doing or not doing in the grand old party. …
The biggest political story in Maharashtra, after the Lok Sabha election, is that there is no big story unless the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Shiv Sena decide to contest the elections separately. Initial ground reports from poll-bound Maharashtra run along the expected lines. There is no emerging political plot in the state but mere …
