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...
11 Sep, 2021, 06.49 PM IST
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...
15 Jun, 2020, 02.55 PM IST
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 ...
20 Dec, 2019, 12.11 PM IST
View: Simultaneous Parliament and assembly elections- Neat for polling, messy for democracyAll distractions from governance would be avoided by holding simultaneous elections.
19 Jun, 2019, 03.47 PM IST
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.
18 Dec, 2017, 06.34 AM IST
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...
26 Oct, 2017, 12.38 AM IST
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...
02 Mar, 2017, 12.32 AM IST
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...
22 Aug, 2016, 10.49 AM IST
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.
30 Sep, 2015, 06.32 PM IST
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 ...
29 Sep, 2014, 05.32 AM IST
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...
26 May, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
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.
17 May, 2014, 12.45 PM IST
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...
08 Apr, 2014, 10.25 AM IST
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.
22 Dec, 2013, 08.03 AM IST
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...
22 Dec, 2013, 07.58 AM IST
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...
06 Aug, 2013, 11.01 AM IST
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.
28 Jun, 2013, 04.07 AM IST