Chandni Chowk pedestrianisation project will be complete by Dec 31: AAP govt to HC

The AAP government on Thursday told the Delhi High Court that the stretch of road between the Red Fort intersection and the Fatehpuri Masjid in Chandni Chowk will be inaugurated on December 31 following its pedestrianisation. A bench of justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad was informed by various local bodies and the Delhi government […]

Impasse continues as BJP-ruled MCDs clash with AAP

The Kejriwal government refuses to budge, says BJP mayors can sit outside CM’s office for as long as they want. Going into the intricacies of funds transfers, AAP does seem to be in the right The Municipal Corporation of Delhi’s (MCD) Mayors have taken the blame game to the next level, sitting outside Chief Minister […]

AAP enters 2019 arena

Can the Aam Aadmi Party use the work it has done at the local level to wrest some of the seven Lok Sabha seats from the BJP? It is certainly trying Mukim Ahmed runs a biryani business. He voted for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections and the Congress in the Vidhan Sabha. But […]

To be AAP or not to be

It is a story of those who think that AAP has lost its core principles and about those who want to stick to it, despite being disillusioned. Patriot spoke with two AAP MLAs who have returned, and two former members who say they never will The Aam Aadmi Party has seen prominent faces drop out […]

A tale of two swimming pools

The Delhi Government has taken another inspired initiative in the education sector by providing two state-run schools in the trans-Yamuna area with swimming pools A swimming pool with crystal clear water, proper training facilities, diving boards and separate changing rooms for boys and girls within the premises of a school. At first glance, this seems […]

Attack on AAP politics

THE SACKING OF ATISHI MARLENA HAS LEFT EVERYONE WITH A QUESTION: HOW CAN THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT SACK AN ADVISOR TO THE DELHI GOVERNMENT? The cancellation of Atishi Marlena’s appointment as advisor to Delhi Education Minister Manish Sisodia is one of those occasions when the Narendra Modi-led central government has taken  direct aim at the Arvind […]

INSIDE THE PATCH-UP

Showing a ‘united front’, the two are gearing up to take on AAP in Delhi 2018 has not been a good start for AAP — considering that it is again circled by controversy — but things are looking up for another party, the Congress. While the national capital’s AAP government grappled with Delhi chief secretary […]