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
Deploring the loose language used against him by members of the Congress’s ruling family, Narendra Modi challenged the party president and vice president to answer his queries on big ticket corruption cases and face the nation on the myriad issues arising from the misgovernance of the past ten years. Reaching … Read More
At a breathtaking gathering of Akali Dal-BJP supporters at Amritsar on Friday evening, Narendra Modi batted for an ‘Asian century’, said India would play a stellar role in it, and Punjab would be among the States that would shine on this spectrum. Batting for Leader of Opposition in the Rajya … Read More
By issuing a Communal Award promising reservations to religious minorities (read Christians and Muslims, since Parsis and Jains are too negligible to count) on the day of the sixth phase of voting, when two-thirds of the election is over, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has effectively conceded defeat. She took the … Read More
Time stopped in the eternal city. Every school, college, establishment remained shut and the city turned out in splendour to welcome a humble Shiv-bhakt, a chai-wala turned conqueror, who has captured their imagination and their hearts. Varanasi is a chronicle of an election foretold. No prize for guessing the winner … Read More
The email by Father Frazer Mascarenhas, principal of St Xavier’s College, Mumbai, virtually asking students not to vote by the BJP, has possibly been triggered by adverse feedback regarding the performance of the Congress-NCP combine in the first two phases of voting in Maharashtra on April 10 and 17. With … Read More
