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1975 Emergency explained: A look back at India's 'dark days of democracy'; Govt designates day as 'Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas'1975 Emergency: In a significant move, the Government of India has designated June 25 as "Constitution Murder Day" to mark the 1975 Emergen...
Movements that shaped Davids and Goliaths of Gujarat politicsGujarat’s 15th assembly will be formed in December after the election concludes. In the state’s 60-year history, political luminaries have ...
Even Lord Ram will be restless over developments in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone says Sanjay RautIn his weekly column "Rokhthok" in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana', Raut wrote, "if someone wants to stoke the fire of fundamentalism and di...
Vijay Rupani's soft-spoken image may have been his undoing, say observersIn a surpring movie, Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani on Saturday evening resigned from the post. Rupani, who made the announcement while talking to...
The former Congress MLA against whom Congress is now guarding its MLAs in GujaratCongress is taking precautions to prevent increase in crossover support for a rival who had himself crossed over to the saffron fold less t...
Students’ stir have always marked India’s political pathAgitation and protests by students from various universities across India have catalyzed the political sensitivity and has been justifying ...
View: Simultaneous Parliament and assembly elections- Neat for polling, messy for democracyAll distractions from governance would be avoided by holding simultaneous elections.
View: Gujarat elections 2017 is all about youth power who rallied against BJPThe state’s youth of today are not diffident but have been increasingly assertive with a chutzpah that few believed they possessed.
Gujarat polls: Challenging for Congress to build on unexpected breakthrough it got through youth leadersCongress, on paper, looks at the nearly 13% Patels, 15% tribals, 7% Dalit and a slice from 50% OBCs (in addition to 10% Muslims) as wooable...
University campuses have been launching pads for several top national leadersCampus activity threw up Sharad Yadav, Lalu Prasad, Sushil Kumar Modi, Arun Jaitley, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Manoj Sinha, Nitish Kumar and Sit...
Jignesh Mevani, Kanhaiya Kumar and Hardik Patel have rattled the Modi government more than OppositionWill they be absorbed by the system, which might blunt their edge but also achieve more, in the imperfect, crabwise way of democratic polit...
Hardik Patel to expand movement across nationPatel is already at loggerheads with the BJP-led government in his home state by leading an agitation for reservation for Patels there.
Political strains in Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu can hurt investmentWith all alliances over, it is impossible to predict how this contest will pan out: Pawar is hoping to claw out a few seats from the ruins ...
Gujarati Prime Ministers Morarji Desai & Narendra Modi share similaritiesPolitical culture unites the two, said academic and writer Achyut Yagnik, adding that much like Desai, Modi is authoritarian and proud of h...
Narendra Modi & Morarji Desai's journey to PM office passed through GodhraBoth Modi And Morarji, India’s first Gujarati PM, share a curious link with the small town that sparked 2002.
Rise and rise of Narendra Modi: From political non-entity to PM candidate in three decadesWhen BJP was formed, no leader that day knew that a fiercely ambitious young man lurked in rural Gujarat would one day make them politicall...
AAP can scale up like JP, VP Singh movementsSince the general election is just five months away, some analysts say the AAP doesn’t have enough time to organize and spread.
Aam Aadmi Party eyes Gujarat, to contest all Lok Sabha seatsAAP will hold a Jhadu Yatra across the state to highlight what they call the Modi government's corrupt practices ahead of the 2014 election...
A Mumbai state of mindMumbai still considers itself more professional and merit-oriented while in Delhi all that matters is who you know or better still, are rel...
JD(U) unimpressed with Narendra Modi's blog preaching unity against CongressOn 38th anniversary of the Emergency , Modi took to the blogosphere to remind non-Congress parties about the power of unity.