Siddaramaiah: a poor strategist

A father’s love for his son proved to be Siddaramaiah’s undoing Chamundeshwari did not allow Sidda-ramaiah a last hurrah. The chief minister lost the election to his former poll manager, GT Deve Gowda. It showed up Siddaramaiah as a poor strategist, giving up his safe Varuna seat for his son, Yathindra, to test his luck […]

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 […]

YOUR GOD OR MINE

That’s the essence of the unholy war being waged by the Congress and the BJP to woo voters of Karnataka as leaders of both parties go temple hopping If Gujarat was the test case, Karnataka has seen the temple run being patented as an electoral strategy. In the run-up to the assembly elections on 12 […]

WILL THE REAL KCR PLEASE STAND UP?

Telangana CM is being accused of launching not a third front but BJP’s second front When Members of Parliament of the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) along with fellow lawmakers from the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK), did not allow the Lok Sabha to function for three days, it might have seemed like a […]

‘FOREIGN HAND’ IN ELECTION

Will the BJP and Congress please come clean on their association with CA’s India partner? Cambridge Analytica (CA) is in the eye of a storm after an undercover investigation caught some of its senior executives boasting about psychological manipulation, entrapment techniques and fake news campaigns in order to manipulate voters. Not only that, a Britain-based […]

By-poll blues for the saffron party

BJP suffered embarrassing defeat in their own bastion, Gorakhpur and Phulpur, when two arch rivals, SP and BSP, put up a joint fight. Will it harbinger a bigger Muslim-Dalit alliance in 2019? The bypoll results were a shocker for the BJP. They lost two seats in their bastion, that of Gorakhpur—a seat that was represented […]

HOW BJP-TDP MARRIAGE SOURED

The BJP’s extra-political relationship with YSR Congress and ignoring of Naidu’s complaints and demands led to resentment. Naidu’s decision is based on the surmise that Modi-led BJP will not get a majority on its in 2019 “Talaq, Talaq, Talaq” shouted some of Telugu Desam Party’s (TDP) MPs near Mahatma Gandhi’s statue in the Parliament House […]

THE ODD COUPLE

Despite their hostile past, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and Akhilesh Yadav’ s Samajwadi Party have come together to defeat BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Politics is the art of the possible. Sworn enemies become friends for political expediency. That’s what the saffron wave that has swept the whole country has forced many political outfits to […]