Assembly Elections - Different Truths

October 26, 2021
Ratan Mani Lal
Cover Story, Politics

Mandate UP 2022: The Skewed Games

With the preparations for Assembly elections in UP round-the-corner, Ratan Mani analyses where do various parties stand, their possible strategies and alliances. An exclusive for Different Truths. The Assembly...

August 18, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Election Commission should not Allow Simultaneous Polls

The controversy over holding Lok Sabha and assembly elections simultaneously as was the practice in fifties was revived following the BJP President Amit Shah’s letter to the Law Commission...

June 6, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Kerala Polity Acquiring a Redder Hue: Outlook Ominous for Congress, BJP

CPI(M) candidate Saji Cherian retained the seat by trouncing Congress candidate D Vijaya Kumar by a record margin of over 20,000 votes. BJP’s P S Sreedharan Pillai, who was...

June 4, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Why is Rahul Gandhi Finally Adopting Mamata Model for 2019 Poll?

The Congress President Rahul Gandhi has been acting as the unifier of the anti-BJP forces giving up the arrogance associated with the grand old party that it is the...

June 1, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Tough Challenge Ahead for a Cornered BJP

The UP verdict is a clear indication of the shape of things to come if a coalition of SP, BSP, RLD, Congress and other smaller parties were to take...

May 31, 2018
IPA Service
Fossil Fuel, Politics

Nobody in BJP Makes the One Paisa Cut

Amit Shah is too big for Modi’s boots and the Yogi, who people thought would wear the King’s crown on his bald head, also doesn’t qualify in the people’s...

May 28, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Mayawati Adopts Tough Posturing on Alliance: Threat to Contest Alone if Party Denied Justice

Mayawati had made it clear that she was willing to forge an anti-BJP alliance at the national level but would prefer to go it alone if her party was...

May 24, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

A Total Anti-BJP Unity can bring down Saffron Strength to 150 Seats

In the aftermath of Karnataka state government formation, the way has opened up for forming a solid platform of the non-BJP parties who do not want the saffrons to...

May 22, 2018
IPA Service
Politics

Worry for NDA as Modi-Shah Duo no Longer Unassailable: Congress-JD(S) Victory in Karnataka Galvanises Opposition

The contest in Karnataka, the BJP apparently thought that a barnstorming campaign by Modi would be enough to enable the party to sail through. That it nevertheless had slight...

May 19, 2018
IPA Service
Economy

Challenges in Indian Economy this Fiscal: Corruption Continues to Eat into Vitals

The road ahead is bumpy for India’s growth story. Though India has been in a sweet spot umpteen times in the last couple of decades, its economy never grows...

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