Opinion

She is right in demanding answers from her parent party, but her move to the Shiv Sena, indeed, has shocked many who have agreed or disagreed with her.

Coalitions are able to more naturally weave in the vital regional parties that act as breakwaters in the path of potentially elective despotism.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday released its much-awaited manifesto for the upcoming elections. It is disappointing that the vision of the grand old party’s manifesto is a far hark from facts.

The south is going to be the biggest challenge for the BJP. Many experts feel that it might lose about 40 seats in UP because of the SP–BSP–RLD coalition and another 40 in rest of the country.

Nitish Kumar, the poster boy of the grand alliance, was the first to broach the idea of a mahagathbandhan against the BJP with the Congress. Unwilling or unable to scotch the crisis, the Congress fiddled while Nitish burnt his boats with the opposition.

In the last five years, the performance of the Modi government and his actions have spoken louder than words, whether it is providing electricity to every household or constructing toilets for almost 10 crore houses.

Mexicans tapped the blue agave plant until it yielded a sort of honey water from its fruit. They fermented it to make pulque and were content with its mild alcohol for long. Later, it came to be known as Tequila.

From available indications, Sonia Gandhi is preparing herself to play the role of a 'kingmaker' after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls if the verdict is split.

Today, the AIADMK is more concerned about the survival of the Edappadi K Palaniswami government till the end of its tenure in 2021 than the Lok Sabha polls. Therefore, the PMK is a bigger player for the AIADMK than the BJP.

Digvijaya, a former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh, has been courting one controversy after another in the Congress-ruled state following his jibe at Home Minister Bala Bachchan in the Mandsaur incident.

Hyperbole isn’t just making the lives of security forces personnel trivial, it’s setting a dangerous precedent.

The claim that the Indian Journalists Association (IJA), in whose name the recent EVM press conference was called, is a pretence to neutrality is as facetious as it is mischievous.

The alliance has been formed between two leaders, and a major challenge for both the parties will be to take the message to the grassroots-level worker.

The big upshot is certainly the one on Ram Temple. The Prime Minister has again displayed leadership qualities and courage of conviction to say what was needed in a constitutional democracy.

National security is critical and paramount to India’s prosperity. However, it must be channelled through a judicial and parliamentary process, while at the same time making the agencies accountable, which lies at the core of a functioning democracy.

At one level, Stalin’s declaration was aimed at cementing ties with the Nehru-Gandhi family, but coming shortly after the Congress wrested three states from the BJP, it had a whiff of sycophancy about it.