It’s official. Rahul Gandhi has ducked the challenge posed by Narendra Modi, and will not be named as the Congress’s official candidate for the post of Prime Minister in the 2014 general election. At the opening session of the All India Congress Committee (AICC) at Talkatora Stadium this morning, Congress … Read More
Even before he could unfurl the tiranga at the forthcoming Republic Day, Arvind Kejriwal’s 20-day old Government has been jolted by MLA Vinod Kumar Binny who read out a virtual chargesheet against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and its leadership at a crowded press conference on Thursday morning. Amidst rumours … Read More
In the short time in which it has been the ruling establishment in Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has demonstrated two contradictory facets. First, it startled the nation by expressing a desire to metamorphose into a nationwide phenomenon in time for the parliamentary elections slated for April-May 2014, and … Read More
Probably the most powerful spectacle at the star-spangled Saifai mahotsav was the cynical disdain of the Samajwadi Party and its Government in Uttar Pradesh towards human suffering, specifically in the Muzaffarnagar relief camps where 34 infants and children are officially admitted to have died of cold and disease. But the … Read More
Narendra Modi on Sunday escalated his attack on Congress misrule (vikrut vyavastha), corruption, and vote-bank politics, and endorsed and commended Goa’s uplifting vision of seeking special status to protect the identity, environment, traditions, and culture of the State without any extra financial support from the Centre. Addressing a two-lakh strong … Read More
Amidst hints that the Congress party may have to downsize its hopes of a revival in Uttar Pradesh, vice president Rahul Gandhi’s scheduled public meeting in Amethi on January 10 was cancelled, ostensibly due to “water-logging” at the venue. More will be known about the truth of this assertion if … Read More
The highlight of the Equal Opportunity Commission (EOC) as proposed by Minority Affairs Minister K Rahman Khan is that any minority person feeling discriminated by an employer can complain to the proposed body. In other words, Indians are being instigated to become litigious in a very western way; this can … Read More
The lame duck UPA coalition’s sudden move to create an Equal Opportunity Commission on the recommendations of the divisive Sachar Committee and grant minority status to the miniscule Jain community is insidious and illegitimate, and will hopefully not be allowed to become law by alert Opposition parties. Like all major … Read More
The Supreme Court on Monday morning set aside the takeover of the sacred Nataraj temple at Chidambaram by the Tamil Nadu State Government, and paved the way for the return of the temple administration to its traditional custodians, the Podu Dikshitars, thus marking the opening of the year with a … Read More
Addressing his third press conference in over nine years in office, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh sought to reserve his place in history by hoping it would judge him more objectively (read kindly) than the media and the Opposition parties, and startled the nation by congratulating himself for maintaining the momentum … Read More
