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Opinion: BJP's Anti-Corruption Branding Took A Beating In Karnataka
BJP lost power not due to any specific scandal involving outgoing CM Basavaraj Bommai or his colleagues. Voters rejected it because of the widespread perception that the entire government machinery, from bottom to top, was steeped in corruption.
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Opinion: India Looks All Set To Miss A Huge Chance This Week
Why have India-Pakistan governmental attitudes become so inflexible as to leave no scope for readiness to avail even rare opportunities?
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Opinion: When Vajpayee Worked With Opposition To Stave Off US Pressure
As an aide to Vajpayee in the Prime Minister's Office, I was privy to much that was happening then. Of course, I was firmly of the view that the US invasion of Iraq could not be justified on any count.
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Opinion: With 2-Hour Speech, Xi Shows What Makes Him So Powerful
Preparation of the speech began almost a year ago, and a lot of leaders contributed to it and reviewed it at various stages. In short, China's leadership is far more collective and consultative than is the case in several democracies.
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Opinion: 4 Reasons Why Nitish Kumar's Move Impacts National Politics
Clearly, Nitish Kumar is the man to watch as a National Mahagathbandhan takes shape in the run-up to 2024.
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Opinion: BJP Betrays People's Mandate With Eknath Shinde As Chief Minister
The BJP has installed a dummy Chief Minister who can be fully controlled by Fadnavis in Mumbai and remote-controlled by Shah in Delhi.
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Opinion: With Agnipath, PM Modi Repeats Mistakes Made With Farm Laws
To know why protests against the Modi government's new "Agnipath" (armed forces recruitment) scheme have become the angriest in Bihar, it is instructive to take a morning walk in the historic Gandhi Maidan in Patna.
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Opinion: Gandhis' Ineptitude Costs It One State After Another
The Congress has to do many things for its revival. But right now, Rahul Gandhi has to take one urgent decision. He must end the dangerous drift in the party.
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Opinion: BJP's Principal Assets - Modi And Shah - Are In Trouble
Much of this criticism will be on account of the BJP's abysmal failure to dethrone Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.
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Opinion: Uddhav Thackeray-Led Alliance Shows How To Defeat BJP
The BJP under Modi and Shah has often boasted that it is well on its way to becoming India's dominant party in every state - from "Panchayat to Parliament". It certainly occupies the Number 1 position at the Centre and in many states - including at the panchayat level, as the recent results in Maharashtra have shown. However, Uddhav Thackeray has shown that a robust '...
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Opinion: Rahul-Priyanka Deliver A Big Win; What They Must Do Next
The credit should go mainly to the decisive action by the two leaders who now command the highest degree of support within the party - the brother-sister duo of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. They were ably assisted by party colleagues, both old and young, in their reconciliatory efforts to convince Sachin Pilot into a 'ghar wapasi'.
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Opinion: Uddhav Thackeray Finds His Best Self In Corona Crisis
If Uddhav Thackeray remains true to his better self, it is safe to predict that he will emerge as a consequential leader in the post-Corona political developments at the national level - and also in the post-Modi governance architecture in India.
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Opinion: The Modi-Shah Strategy Reduces 'Kamal' To 'Keechad'
"The Modi-Shah strategy of making India "Congress-mukt" prompts me to think of what the previous generation of BJP leaders might have said about these murderous attacks on democracy. I am surmising this on the basis of my own active political life in the BJP between 1996 and 2013."
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Opinion: Modi And Shah Must Take Blame For Mob Takeover Of Delhi
Whatever Modi might have wanted to achieve from hosting Trump in a grand manner - "event management" is after all his forte - there is no denying that India's democracy and India's civilization have been shamed by the kind of dangerously polarizing politics that he and Shah have been playing.
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Opinion: RG's Latest Fumble Against Modi Exposes His Weaknesses
Rahul Gandhi, after the debacle he and his party suffered in the 2019 parliamentary polls, is both combative and prone to unforced errors. He is sometimes casual and careless to the point of looking downright immature. Moreover, he often fumbles against a powerful opponent like Narendra Modi who is out to finish both his party and his family's legacy in Indian politic...
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Opinion: On Death Anniversary, 10 Savarkar Links To Mahatma's Killing
Will Narendra Modi's government posthumously honour Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966) with the Bharat Ratna? Most likely, even though his name did not figure in the Padma awards announced on the eve of Republic Day. After all, the BJP, which has evolved into a Savarkarite party - the Hindu Mahasabha in its new avatar - is insistent that its greatest, albeit highly ...
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Opinion: The Maharashtra Fiasco Hurts PM Modi In 5 Big Ways
The self-goal by Modi and Shah in Maharashtra will accelerate the pace of change in national politics.
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Opinion: Modi Deserves Kudos For 'Chennai Connect' With Xi
"The friendship between China and Pakistan is unbreakable and rock solid despite changes in the international and regional situation," he told Imran Khan, who had come to Beijing for the third time this year.
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Opinion: Modi-Shah - 2 Tigers, 1 Mountain. Where Does That Leave Rajnath?
"One Mountain Cannot Contain Two Tigers." Is this Chinese saying going to become salient as Narendra Modi's second innings, which has just begun, progresses? Or will Modi and Amit Shah prove it wrong?
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Opinion: Modi's Speech His Best So Far, Now He Must Deliver On "Vishwas"
"Pradhan Mantri Narendra Modi-ji, I wholeheartedly commend your hope-giving speech at the NDA meet. Now, along with crores of patriotic Indians (non-Muslims as well as Muslims), permit me to urge you: Walk the Talk."
