The BJP’s Prime Ministerial contender was given the ‘unwelcome’ mat by the Varanasi administration which on Wednesday denied him permission to hold a rally at Beniya Bagh on May 8, refused to approve a luncheon meeting with 150 eminent citizens at a city hotel, and forbade ‘Ganga aarti’ at the … Read More
Unbelievable as it may have seemed till only the other day, Amethi has eclipsed Varanasi in terms of dramatic value in the general election of 2014. In Varanasi, the people know they are going to elect the primus inter pares of the new regime; given the unparalleled response to his … Read More
As the long drawn parliamentary election meanders to a close, it would be churlish to deny that Narendra Modi gambled well in his choice of Varanasi as the wellspring of his plans for rejuvenating India, economically and civilisationally. It is equally evident that the people of Gujarat realise he will … Read More
A chain is as strong as its weakest link. When a hard-working and tenacious politician like Smriti Irani, one of the few BJP spokespersons to prepare before speaking on any issue, was chosen to give Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi a fight in the family pocket borough of Amethi, this … Read More
The loose language and body language of Congress leaders, particularly its leading family, reeks of its impending defeat, especially since the one person around whom the whole campaign was being conducted has run away and is nowhere to be seen for the past three-four days, Narendra Modi taunted during the … Read More
A general surge in favour of the BJP, particularly in the four parliamentary constituencies of Darjeeling, Asansol, Krishnagar and Dumdum, is behind Monday’s exchange of vitriol between Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Close observers of the election scene in the State opine that the BJP has … Read More
Has Narendra Modi crossed the political Rubicon, casting the die Julius Caesar style, and assuring a straight run to Delhi? A hint that this may be so can be discerned from the Government-controlled Doordarshan News (DD News) signalling its Gujarat unit to conduct an interview with the State Chief Minister. … Read More
Manmohan Singh’s best-selling biography, The Accidental Prime Minister, confirms this writer’s long-held belief that this inscrutable, unflappable, incorruptible, well-read and well-informed gentlemanswallowed the mountains of humiliation heaped on him to achieve a singular objective, viz, strip the Congress’s ruling dynasty of its Teflon coating. The signs were always there, though … Read More
With the Congress doggedly adhering to a campaign based on divine-right-to-rule, Narendra Modi sharpened his attack on party vice president Rahul Gandhi for meaningless prattle, and lambasted the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party for having a tacit understanding with the Congress at the Centre while pretending to fight it … Read More
The Gujarat High Court on April 24 rejected a public interest litigation (WP (PIL) No 96 of 2013) alleging that the State Government had provided undue and exclusive favours to Tata Motors Limited via Government Resolution of January 1, 2009, which gave the company a loan equal to the gross … Read More
