Category: Politics

What are the lessons of 2019 elections?What are the implications for the second term?So, it is death for the Congress party? The exit polls have been dampening for one section and the NDA might be too much to be ready for their impact on the Indian mind! Yes, the 2019 elections have been a watershed,…

What are our thoughts? Freedom of the press and the freedom of the citizens and the future of Indian democracy! These are all the basic issues of how Indian democracy functions in the country. The General Election, 2019 has thrown up many unprecedented other issues that have caused many ripples verging on the very frontiers…

That seems the one sure outcome, likely!  Congress, a new sort of oligarchy! BJP’s build-up of allies shows anxiety and uncertainty! Why, the Congress confusion at many levels leaves it not with much choice and maneuverability! The BJP party and government has had its rounds of allies build-up  almost complete.  In some of the major…

Very likely, it seems! Rahul in the race for PM? Very unlikely! The ruling leading lights shout: It is PM vs. chaos! Opposition unity, a shame! Political issues are getting hotter everyday. Election outcome in 2019 is the major guessing game. There is less and less of tolerance and Dissidence of any sort is not…

Agriculture distress is only one factor. The other factors are too many to narrate! A surprise of surprise is the latest move of certain courage on the part of the otherwise submissive bureaucracy to summon up courage, some 83 bureaucrats of high ranks, most of them ex-IAS officers, some really daring  to write to the…

In three crucial Hindi heartland states! What does this election win means? Means the rural distress in the agri sector nearly over? Rahul’s new found confidence justifies his current speeches and even his threatening postures? Yes, yes, he has every reason to be enthused about his hard-won battles! But then write-off of farm loans in…

You see that Chhattisgarh state along with four others is in the midst of an important Assembly elections and the outcome would decide the fate of the parties in the crucial 2019 Lok Sabha general elections. The political parties, in particular, the BJP and the Congress, are doing everything, from  rhetoric to below the belly…

Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, unveiled   a 60-feet tall statue of a great Jat leader, Sir Chotu Ram, and spoken high of the pre-Independence day leader of farmers. Sir Chotu Ram had mobilised the people, peasants, to emerge as beneficiaries of many development projects, the Bhakra Nagal dam in particular that made Punjab and Haryana as…