यंदाच्या लोकसभा निवडणूक निकालांनी काँग्रेसच्या भवितव्याबाबत गंभीर चिंता निर्माण झाली आहे. २०१४ च्या निवडणूक प्रचाराच्या धामधुमीत नरेंद्र मोदींनी पहिल्यांदा ‘काँग्रेस-मुक्त भारत’ आपले राजकीय उद्दिष्ट असल्याचे जाहीर केले होते. त्यानंतर त्यांनी अनेकदा प्रत्यक्ष-अप्रत्यक्षपणे ‘काँग्रेस-मुक्त भारता’चा मुद्दा उगाळला होता. २०१९ च्या निवडणूक प्रचारात मोदींनी मुंबईच्या सभेत पहिल्यांदा देश ‘काँग्रेस-मुक्त’ होत असल्याचं सूतोवाच करत लोकसभेत या पक्षाला ५० जागाही …
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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There are many questions which are in need of answers. The answers to these questions are the key to Congress revival. The Congress party has once again failed in the recently concluded Bihar assembly elections and in several by-polls across the country. Their failure has caused such a loss of face for the party that it …
The sequence of events since the Anna Hazare movement suggests a conspiratorial political roadmap. Was a movement spearheaded by India against Corruption during the UPA-II period created by the RSS? Were Anna Hazare and Arvind Kejriwal propped up by the Hindutva mother-body? These are not new questions and the RSS itself would perhaps not fight …
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 …
If the Congress wants to end its increasing national irrelevance, urgent introspection and action is the need of the hour. It has become business as usual for the media, political scientists, sociologists, leaders from the left to the right and the voters to talk about the Congress debacle. However, it is very rare to see …
In Goa, Manipur, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh, former Congress party stalwarts such as Himanta Biswa Sarma, Scindia and Pilot are the symptoms of a fatal disease. The cause of the disease must be treated immediately and effectively. There are many Manishankar Aiyyars in the Congress party who have unlimited faith in the indispensability article of …
The Prime Minister is talking to all of us through different mediums. But we must talk to the Prime Minister too. Talking to the talkative is not easy but there is no easy way out either. In a parliamentary democracy, it is not unusual for the Prime Minister to seek the counsel of the President. It …
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. …
Engagement with diverse ideas, acceptability of different tactics, and broader unity against the hegemony of fascist ideas are the need of the hour. The Aam Adami Party’s epic victory in the Delhi assembly elections is a validation of the work undertaken by the Kejriwal government in this half-state. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s resounding defeat, on …
