The wild allegations about attempts to destabilise its minority Government suggest that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) may have reached its precipice moment and fears that an inglorious fall could nip its national ambitions in the bud even before the schedule for the 2014 general election is announced. The Congress … Read More
Escalating his attack on the ruling Congress while addressing a range of critical issues, from the assaults on Africans and youth from the north east in Delhi, to the plight of farmers and citizens in general, Narendra Modi said that the Congress leadership has drunk so deeply of the ‘poison’ … Read More
Sixteen years after the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government set up a Commission in May 2000, under retired Supreme Court judge, Justice GT Nanavati, to probe the violence in the wake of the Sikh community’s unhappiness with previous probes by various committees as well as the … Read More
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s admission in his recent interview to Times Now that “probably some Congressmen” were involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom, and his inability to explain why the “legal process” had been unable to deliver justice (some prominent accused are dead) when cases in the Gujarat riots … Read More
Rahul Gandhi artlessly dodged the issue of the challenge posed by Narendra Modi to the Congress and to him personally, insisted mechanically that the Congress would win the 2014 general election, and laboriously avoided every pointed question thrown at him in a wide-ranging 90-minute interview on Times Now on Monday … Read More
Overwhelmed at the sheer diversity and apparent chaos of India, American economist and envoy John Kenneth Galbraith dubbed it “functionary anarchy”, a description that has evoked smiles over the decades. It has taken less than a month of the Aam Aadmi Party to turn the national capital into a dysfunctional … Read More
In a startling attack on the occasion of National Voters Day (January 25), Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva accused the Election Commission of converting the festival of democracy – elections – into a virtual condolence meeting. As the occasion coincided with the eve of Republic Day, the Governor’s speech went largely … Read More
The sense of immunity and sense of impunity with which the Aam Aadmi Party has been functioning – from lose talking to vigilantism to street protests despite being the ruling dispensation in the Capital – received a rude knock on Friday with the Supreme Court issuing notice on two public … Read More
Escalating his nationwide drive to drum up support ahead of the 2014 general election, Narendra Modi exhorted the youth to dare to dream (sapne dekhne chahiyein) and promised that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would work to fulfill their aspirations. Addressing a mammoth Vijay Shankhnad rally at Gorakhpur on the … Read More
Barely weeks and several antics later, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his motley band of Merry Men seem to have pressed the eject button, or opted for escape velocity, in the words of a leading Prime Ministerial hopeful who failed to make his party’s nomination grade. With the Supreme … Read More
