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Delhi poll result isn’t just Brand Kejriwal losing sheen. BJP stepping out of Modi shadow too

The BJP's victory in the Delhi Assembly election 2025 is another sign that the party is readying up well for the post-Modi era.

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Telangana caste survey result is an opportunity and trap for Rahul Gandhi

Revanth Reddy is walking the talk, unlike his Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah, who has been sitting over this report for close to a decade.

03.02.2025 4

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Prashant Kishor doubts Nitish Kumar’s mental health. And CM’s son adds a twist to the tale

Prashant Kishor has got his finger on the pulse of Bihari voters—their frustration and listlessness with a CM who has lost his mojo but refuses to...

27.01.2025 10

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What differentiates BJP from Congress—one learns from mistakes, the other won’t

The issues raised by the Congress in successive elections have remained frozen in time, no matter how many elections the party has lost.

22.01.2025 10

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4 revenue secretaries in 4 weeks. Modi govt’s quest for ‘committed bureaucracy’ continues

PM Modi evidently reposes more faith in serving and retired bureaucrats than in politicians. IAS officers must, however, be taking it with a pinch of...

13.01.2025 20

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Why Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan is seeking political redemption through Sanatan Dharma

Since 1967, the Left has been in power in either Kerala, West Bengal, Tripura. If Pinrayi Vijayan doesn’t deliver in 2026 Assembly election, the...

06.01.2025 7

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Flogging, going barefoot—Annamalai must endure pain as Modi-Shah’s Tamil Nadu priorities change

Tamil Nadu BJP president whipped himself in public to protest against the sexual assault of a student. What must have hurt him though is neither...

30.12.2024 3

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Manmohan Singh, an ‘underestimated’ politician for his Congress detractors

Manmohan Singh could have done a lot of things. But he was hamstrung. He had to seek the approval of the Gandhis to even drop or shift a minister...

27.12.2024 7

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‘One Nation, One Election’ is a bad idea—and not because of Opposition’s ‘Modi phobia’

In ‘normal’ elections, voters have begun to differentiate between national and Assembly elections and vote differently. There is no reason they...

16.12.2024 7

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Annamalai, Kishan Reddy, Vijayendra—why BJP’s war horses in South are running out of steam

Now that PM Modi is in his third term, perhaps the BJP is losing the will to fight in the southern states. It would rather consolidate its gains in...

09.12.2024 30

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Devendra Fadnavis is no Shivraj Chouhan. Yet his worry is growing as Modi-Shah dither

The impending succession battle in BJP makes the choice of the next Maharashtra CM crucial—more in terms of power dynamics in the party than those...

02.12.2024 8

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Rahul Gandhi should step back. He has 4 big reasons to pass the baton to Priyanka

Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections have proved yet again that Rahul Gandhi can’t ignite the imagination of aspirational India.

25.11.2024 2

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India needs a full-time Home Minister. No more puppet BJP president, please

Amit Shah is a 24x7 workaholic. Yet, he is only human. That should explain the lapses in Manipur or elsewhere.

18.11.2024 10

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Mahayuti or MVA? Why each of the six parties want the other five down in Maharashtra polls

Mahayuti vs Maha Vikas Aghadi is the dominant theme in the Maharashtra Assembly election. Scratch the surface and you find how the six parties are...

13.11.2024 3

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Indian politics is going back to the pre-2014 era. What this means to Brand Modi and BJP

BJP may even end up winning Maharashtra and Jharkhand but going back to pre-2014 politics will hurt Brand Modi.

28.10.2024 1

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BJP set to best Chinese Communist Party again. What it takes to become world’s largest party

The CPC’s membership is likely to reach 10 crore by the end of this year, making it incumbent for the BJP to focus more on the missed calls if it...

21.10.2024 8

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Haryana celebrations over—Modi-Shah must worry about side effects now

Expect a big organisational shake-up now that RSS is back in the saddle. Mohan Bhagwat is unambiguous about his preference for a 75-year upper age...

14.10.2024 3

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Why Modi-Shah have failed to develop mass leaders in states the way Vajpayee-Advani did

BJP had leaders like Modi, Chouhan, Raje, Raman Singh, BSY, and Dhumal who kept the party’s flame burning. Those promoted by Modi-Shah in the last...

07.10.2024 10

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Why PM Modi & Amit Shah should, in national interest, defer plans for a BJP CM in Srinagar

Kashmiris are in for disappointment no matter who wins or loses assembly polls on 8 October.

16.09.2024 2

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What Rahul Gandhi can learn from Tory leader’s tips for Rishi Sunak’s successor

With a coalition government in place and the gap between Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s and Rahul Gandhi’s popularity ratings shrinking, the...

09.09.2024 2

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Why PM Modi has staked claim for a fourth term so early in his third

As long as people are voting for Modi, there is no question of him stepping away—not in 2029, or 2034, or any time during his Amrit Kaal.

02.09.2024 1

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Modi government’s U-turns expose a well-known secret—BJP is facing a crisis of conviction

Article 370, Ram Mandir and UCC formed the core of the BJP’s politics. Now that these issues are no longer electorally productive, the BJP is...

26.08.2024 3

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Mamata Banerjee losing the plot in Kolkata rape-murder case. BJP is the least of her problems

There are many, many questions Banerjee needs to find answers to. Because it’s not just the Opposition and the general public, many of her party...

19.08.2024 9

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Two months into Modi 3.0, NDA’s ‘Fevicol bond’ shows signs of stress

The NDA constituents remained curious onlookers in Parliament whenever BJP MPs got into heated exchanges with the INDIA bloc. While the INDIA bloc...

12.08.2024 2

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Why Modi-Shah can’t do to Yogi in 2024 what Vajpayee did to Kalyan Singh in 1999

The RSS loved both poster boys of Hindutva—Kalyan Singh & Yogi Adityanath. Singh faced rebellion from within the BJP after 1999 polls. Yogi is also...

05.08.2024 3

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Why is BJP doubling down on Hindutva? Modi-Shah have a different reading of 2024 result

Over a hundred thousand new jobs—1,09,589, to be precise—were created every day in 2023-24, the Reserve Bank of India said in its latest report on...

22.07.2024 3

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