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Coomi KapoorIndian Express |
While the BJP has in a show of bravado proclaimed hyped-up numbers — 370 and ‘400 paar’ — as its projected tally, in private, it is more...
It is relying on the Modi factor and Opposition goof-ups to ensure victory. The BJP’s weakest links in the north are Bihar and Maharashtra.
NSA Ajit Doval has indicated to friends that at 79 it may be time to hang up his boots and play with his grandchildren. Although his son Shaurya Doval...
A few union ministers and a Maharashtra leader were deputed by the BJP high command to recruit some Bollywood faces for the 2024 polls.
Presently, powerless parties like the SP, BSP, etc., are not mentioned as major receivers.
Considering the glaring lack of specifics in the names of purchasers of electoral bonds, it is obvious that the scheme was not devised to be as...
Packing up to leave forever, the family apartment in south Mumbai, was an emotional wrench, but also an eye-opener. In the boxes of photographs and...
Modi gave cautionary guidelines to his ministers in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls. He warned that in the next few weeks they should be extremely...
The BJP’s central election committee, which includes Chief Ministers, state presidents, election in-charges of various states and other senior party...
Significantly, Priyanka did not join her brother at the start of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in UP, as originally planned. A press note explained that...
It is unclear whether Priyanka Gandhi will stand for the Lok Sabha from Rae Bareli or not. She did not give any directions to her close associates...
CIVILIAN HONOURS such as Padma awards and Bharat Ratna are usually declared prior to January 26, even though the award ceremony is held later....
Shortly after Modi became PM in 2014, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was decorated with the Bharat Ratna, while Advani and M M Joshi were honoured with the...
Days before the function, life-size cardboard cutouts of PM Modi were erected all along the route from the airport to the temple, along with those of...
The surviving leadership of the 1990s Ram Janmabhoomi movement was conspicuous by its absence during the consecration of the Balak Ram idol in...
Advani at 96 is in frail health, but his loyal private secretary Deepak Chopra says the former party president is keen to attend the ceremony and they...
The two BJP elder statesmen, L K Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, have kept both the VHP and BJP guessing as to whether they will attend the Ram mandir...
Year-end lists conventionally are a compilation of high achievers who made a major impact. But 2023 is better reflected not by winners, but the losers...
This year, we got a new parliament building. Its architecture was designed more to segregate our MPs from the people they represent. Far more...
Two months ago, this column correctly deduced that importing a number of reluctant heavyweight BJP state leaders from Delhi to fight the Assembly...
In Chhattisgarh, Mansukhlal Mandaviya was equally proactive, traveling from one party worker’s house to the next.
In the last lap of the Telangana Assembly campaign, the Congress imported hundreds of its leaders and workers from neighbouring Karnataka to help....
Revanth Reddy, president of the Telangana Congress, was happy to defer to Kanugolu and Shivakumar.
The standoff between Amit Shah and Vasundhara Raje ended after Shah kept his word and included not just Raje but most of her close supporters in the...
Bihar CM Nitish Kumar’s indiscreet remarks on female impregnation and linking it with education was a major embarrassment for the JD(U). With even...
As the general elections approach, the government is interacting more frequently with the RSS. This month, party president J P Nadda, Amit Shah and...
The BJP is conscious that much brainstorming is needed to work out the strategy for the 2024 elections, especially in light of fresh challenges thrown...
The forthcoming Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana are expected to favour the Congress.
Canadian Premiere Justin Trudeau waded in murky waters when he accused India of “credible allegations’’ of involvement in the death of ...
The real winner in the just released Bihar caste survey is not Nitish Kumar, but Lalu Prasad, who has been demanding this data since 2015.
The real winner in the just released Bihar caste survey is not Nitish Kumar, but Lalu Prasad, who has been demanding this data since 2015. While...
Admittedly, I sound like a party pooper, but the hurrahs and hype over the passing of the women’s reservation Bill should be viewed with a pinch of...
Last week’s unnecessarily hastily passed Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament was described brilliantly by the NCP’s Supriya Sule as a...
The south has long protested that it cannot be penalised for its progressiveness in practicing family planning.
There is much speculation about the surprise special five-day Parliament session this month. The actual reason for the session may be less dramatic...
The new Parliament House is expected to be the venue.