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Opinion: Bharat Ratna Awards-Merit Gets Primacy Over Party Affiliations

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Monday February 12, 2024

The BJP seems to have deployed a complex poll strategy-openly criticising the current Congress leadership while simultaneously bestowing honours upon veterans.

Opinion: Is INDIA Bloc Missing Sonia Gandhi's Touch?

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Monday February 05, 2024

Two statements last week by prime leaders of the parties that, to date, pass off as INDIA bloc members, provide pointers towards the outcome of the 2024 general elections.

Opinion: Nirmala Sitharaman's Speech Redefines Secularism, Recasts Castes

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday February 03, 2024

The absence of populism, or 'rewdi' - as freebies are referred to these days - in Nirmala Sitharaman's interim budget speech radiated the Narendra Modi government's poise on the eve of Lok Sabha elections.

Opinion: Advisers Misled And Alarmed Rajiv Gandhi, Says Zail Singh's Aide

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday January 20, 2024

Insights on how advisers misled and alarmed Rajiv Gandhi during five years of his premiership are cited in an interview published in a commemorative book on the life of nonagenarian Tarlochan Singh, who was a confidant of President Gyani Zail Singh.

Opinion: Ayodhya - Congress's Epic Tragedy Of Errors

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday January 19, 2024

Oblivious of Congress's history and the part played by it in the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, both obtrusively and unobtrusively, the current leadership of the Grand Old Party has withdrawn into a self-glorifying cocoon.

Opinion: Rahul Gandhi's Yatra 2.0 Delayed By Fog, Eclipsed By Milind Deora

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Sunday January 14, 2024

The son of Murli Deora, the Congress's fund collector and first to acknowledge Sonia Gandhi as 'the real boss' way back in 1985, has quit the party.

Opinion: With "Advisers" Like These, Rahul Gandhi Needs No Enemies

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Tuesday January 02, 2024

Rahul Gandhi's trusted advisors have a penchant for making statements that queer the pitch for the Congress before elections.

Opinion: Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Nyay Yatra - Bad Timing?

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday December 29, 2023

Congress sources say Sonia Gandhi will attend the event on January 22. In an indication of the party's dilemma, it took three days to react to the statement from Chicago by overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda, considered Rahul Gandhi's mentor.

Opinion: Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal's Kharge Googly

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday December 22, 2023

The fourth meeting of the 28-party INDIA alliance did not produce a common vision document listing an agenda to take on the BJP-led NDA in 2024. All talk of setting up a campaign secretariat seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Opinion: Pranab Mukherjee Felt Rahul Gandhi Is "Yet To Mature Politically"

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday December 08, 2023

"What right does he have to humiliate the PM like this?" he noted in his diary. "He has all the arrogance of his Gandhi-Nehru lineage without their political acumen," he added and observed, "Maybe politics wasn't his (Rahul's) calling."

Opinion: "Modi <I>Ki</I> Guarantee" Is The BJP's Warranty

Opinion: "Modi Ki Guarantee" Is The BJP's Warranty

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Monday December 04, 2023

The BJP's triumph and the Congress's inability to hold its ground in the heartland marked the state election results.

Opinion: Supreme Court's Hindenburg Observations Should Bring Down "AQI" In Politics

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday November 25, 2023

In addition to the national capital being polluted to hazardous levels, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) reaching its nadir, the nation's political atmosphere too is affected by the rising 'AQI' (Accusation Quotient Index).

Opinion: Mahua Moitra's Conduct Compounds Ethics Case - Will It Attract Contempt?

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Sunday November 05, 2023

Mahua Moitra may have lost her opportunity to defend her conduct before Lok Sabha's Ethics Committee with her behaviour during the proceedings and her subsequent stomping out of the room heaping allegations against the panel's chairman to the media.

Opinion: Mamata Banerjee Will Find It Hard To Defend L'affaire Mahua Moitra

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Wednesday October 25, 2023

Trinamool, which is quick to play victim and allege the misuse of agencies by the Centre when scams related to the state are probed, maintained a deafening silence as charges were traded on what has come to be known as the "cash-for-query" scam.

Opinion: Rahul Gandhi Crafts His Own Narrative, Separate From Congress

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday October 07, 2023

Will Rahul Gandhi's bid to shape his own narrative, differing from his party's legacy, help the Congress reverse its slide in 2024?

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