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
Buoyed by feedback of swelling support for the BJP, side by side with the growing disarray in the Congress ranks amidst reports of president Sonia Gandhi’s indifferent health, vice president Rahul Gandhi failing to cut ice with voters, and Priyanka Vadra forced to defend her husband’s unprecedented wealth after her … Read More
In a hectic tour of four of the ten districts of the newborn State of Telangana, Narendra Modi sorted out the glitches in the BJP’s relationship with the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and addressed gigantic rallies with Chandrababu Naidu in Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad on Tuesday evening. The 2014 election … Read More
Even as Narendra Modi’s march to Delhi seems unstoppable, two unnecessary irritants threaten to take the sheen off his triumph, the like of which independent India has never seen. The Gujarat Chief Minister is resented in some circles not for his non-Congress background, but because he represents the first break … Read More
Promising to begin the process of de-criminalising politics by making a crime-free Parliament (apradh mukt sansad) his first priority on coming to power, Narendra Modi said that politicians with criminal associations can never serve the people and so “I will cleanse Indian politics”. Addressing ecstatic crowds in Hardoi, Uttar Pradesh, … Read More
Half-way through the election process, with polling over in 235 seats and reports suggesting that there has never been such heavy voting in the country, Narendra Modi said the Congress has broken out into cold sweat, so much so that the mother-son duo are in doubt whether they will be … Read More
There is a strong possibility that the phenomenon of multiple DIN (Director Identification Numbers) that first came to light in the case of Priyanka Vadra and her mother-in-law Maureen Vadra, and is now known to cover other politically eminent persons, is linked to businesses that may not be known to … Read More
Upping the ante against the Congress and the UPA for the remaining four phases of the election, Narendra Modi said that according to a television channel, the Income Tax department has reported that an extensive raid at the premises of a meat exporter has found that four Central Ministers, including … Read More
The BJP’s Prime Ministerial contender came out against the blanket sale of loss-making public sector undertakings (PSUs) and said these bodies can be professionalised to improve their performance, employees can be taken into confidence and trusted to turn the organisations around, and that it would be wrong to malign them … Read More
