The New Year will be decisive to determine the future of the constitution, of India, and millions of Indians. The year 2019 began with an uncertain political future for Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, and is drawing to a close with uncertainty about the idea of India as envisaged by the freedom movement and enshrined in …
Prabodhankar Thackeray’s lofty legacy is knocking at the doors of Uddhav Thackeray and the Shiv Sena today. Will it prevail? “There is always a sacred veil to be drawn over the beginnings of all governments.” This statement by Edmund Burke is used by the publisher in the preface of Uddhav Thackeray’s grandfather Keshav Sitaram Thackeray’s …
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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision not to stake a claim to form a government in Maharashtra is significant for itself and Indian politics. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s decision not to stake a claim to form a government in Maharashtra is significant for itself and Indian politics. It is the first time since the 13-day-old government …
A better option for the Shiv Sena is to extend outside support to the BJP to form the government. However, its power-hungry MLAs would never allow its leadership to think of long-term politics. Two weeks after the announcement of the assembly results, Maharashtra is on the verge of President’s Rule. This is despite the fact …
The most recent survey supervised by this author for Tractus predicted a surge in the prospective vote-share of the Congress-NCP alliance but a comfortable victory for the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the state. The political status quo during the assembly election in Maharashtra is going almost unchallenged because no one is expecting much and no …
The recently conducted state-wide opinion poll by MIT School of Government (MITSOG), Pune has predicted a landslide victory for the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the state. When the writing on the wall is clear, the opinion polls during the election season hardly matter. They could make the prospective winners complacent and further demoralise the …
The Congress’ very future is at stake. If the party is serious about resurrecting itself, it has to summarily axe the old-timers. There is no time to waste The Indian National Congress’ manifesto for the 2019 election was titled ‘We Will Deliver’. Today, it’s more a question of “’Who Will Deliver’ for the Congress party?”. …
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In the past couple of years, Congress people and party-less anti-Modi people expected Rahul Gandhi to turn the tables against BJP. The 2019 Lok Sabha election results have created a peculiar situation for the Congress party. Rahul Gandhi has relinquished the president’s post, yet there is no one to shoulder the responsibility of the grand …
The party, which did very well in the state during the Modi wave in 2014, faces challenges not just in Vidarbha but also in Marathwada. The electoral battle in Maharashtra is getting intense and interesting. In the second phase of the polls held on April 18, many prestigious Lok Sabha seats were at stake …
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The shift of the OBC Kunabis to the Congress, alongside tribal, Dalit and Muslim support, makes Vidarbha a tough battle for the BJP Powerful Union Minister and former President of BJP Nitin Gadkari may just scrape through on his Nagpur Lok Sabha seat. However, the last minute buildup against him indicates the waning of the …
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