With less than three months to go for assembly elections, the political scene in Telangana has come alive. Last weekend, three contenders for office, the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), the Congress and the BJP — held rallies in the state. The Congress, which lost its base to K Chandrasekhar Rao’s BRS after the Andhra Pradesh […]
Tag Archives: CONGRESS
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Jun
Jun
Of the Congress’s three victories in the winter of 2018, Chhattisgarh was arguably the most spectacular. The party overcame the loss of its entire frontline leadership in the state – they were wiped out in 2013 in a devastating Maoist attack – to displace the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 15-year-long rule. Yet, its win was […]
30
May
May
A controversial ordinance promulgated by the Centre to take control of the bureaucracy has thrown an unexpected spanner in the works of Opposition unity. Even as several opposition parties have backed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in its fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Union government, the Congress appears to be caught in a dilemma. […]
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May
May
A coalition government of the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular) opened its innings in 2018 with almost every Opposition leader on stage, attempting to project a united front before the general elections the next year. Yet, in 2019, the Opposition stumbled, not only across India, but also in Karnataka, picking up just three of the […]
14
May
May
The Opposition’s plans of bringing together disparate parties onto a common national platform ahead of the 2024 elections received a jolt of sorts last week from Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik. The mercurial politician who is also one of India’s longest-serving chief ministers said that as far as he was concerned, there was no possibility […]
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May
May
The assembly elections in Karnataka are crucial not only because it is the biggest state or the first south Indian one to go to polls this year. It is important because both national challengers, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, are trying out long-term strategies that may have ramifications beyond the state. PREMIUM […]
02
May
May
The election manifestos of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Karnataka also hold kernels of their possible strategies for the 2024 general elections, on two fronts. PREMIUM Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar and senior party leader Siddaramaiah releases the party’s manifesto for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, […]
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Apr
Apr
A month after the government in Karnataka sought to send a political signal by scrapping a separate quota for Muslims, the administration has taken a temporary U-turn, telling the Supreme Court that it will hold off on implementing the changes till the next date of hearing, May 9. This effectively also means that the contentious […]
12
Apr
Apr
The ongoing drama over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate list for the forthcoming assembly election in Karnataka should not surprise anyone. Disappointment, dissent, and defection by aspirants who don’t find their names on the list isn’t unique to the state, although it does take it to a different level altogether, and doesn’t fit the […]
12
Apr
Apr
For the first time in five years, the Election Commission of India (ECI) revised its list of state-level and national-level parties this week, granting national party status to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and downgrading the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). India now has six […]
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