Number of seats to play crucial role for BJP, Congress satrapsThe upcoming assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Chhattisgarh are crucial for the BJP and Congress. The number of seats ea...
16 Oct, 2023, 07.17 AM IST
Two states, many lessons: What the verdict meansThe less-than-impressive saffron show just when it had seemed “unreachable” by a big distance is a tribute to the tenacity of the “local” —...
25 Oct, 2019, 10.49 AM IST
Regional satraps likely to divide non-BJP votes in HaryanaThe regional satraps are likely to play a crucial role in the parliamentary seats of Hisar, Sirsa and Faridabad where they have fielded the...
09 May, 2019, 07.58 AM IST
Birender Singh ‘Quits’ to support BJP’s fightThe saffron party was keen to field Birender Singh, a regional satrap, in the Lok Sabha polls in Haryana.
15 Apr, 2019, 06.58 AM IST
Uttar Pradesh poll results to decide fate of regional satrapsThe elections will decide the fate of Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party which had failed to open its account in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.
10 Mar, 2017, 03.42 PM IST
What the assembly election results mean for Congress and Rahul GandhiWith the downfall of Chandy and Gogoi, Congress' reigning satraps have been reduced to Virbhadra Singh and Rawat and four more CMs in small...
20 May, 2016, 04.04 AM IST
In Assam, BJP and Congress’s fortunes depend on regional satraps like AIUDF and BPFEven more worrying is Congress CM Tarun Gogoi's reluctance to forge an alliance with AIUDF despite Congress' central leadership showing no ...
06 Mar, 2016, 11.17 AM IST
Sonia Gandhi's iftar outreach in peril; Lalu Prasad Yadav, Mamata Banerjee opt outThe routine event thrown by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has become a source of embarrassment amid indications that top "secular" satraps ma...
12 Jul, 2015, 10.18 AM IST
BJP rubs it in, showcases satraps who quit CongressSingh, a jat who has got the crucial rural development portfolio, was life-time Congress satraps before he came out in protest against Hood...
11 Nov, 2014, 11.17 AM IST
Does BJP lack leaders in poll states of Haryana, Maharshtra and Jharkhand?BJP seems to be taking a leaf out of Indira Gandhi’s book of managing dissent, curtailing leadership and reducing the regional leaders to D...
01 Sep, 2014, 03.42 AM IST
BJP's rise cuts into the surge of state satrapsBJP's rise in states where it has a modest record is threatening to upset calculations of state satraps like J Jayalalitha, Naveen Patnaik ...
01 May, 2014, 12.48 PM IST
Fears of stronger BJP in their backyard behind Jayalalithaa, Mamata and Mulayam's anger towards Modi?Recent opinion poll figures show Modi-led BJP is gaining in the strongholds of all these satraps and in some cases it is doing unexpectedly...
18 Apr, 2014, 08.41 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: Why Narendra Modi is attacking satraps nowBuoyed by reports of BJP swell even in states where it has been also ran , Narendra Modi has launched sharp attacks against regional satrap...
12 Apr, 2014, 01.10 PM IST
- Congress: Centre without satraps
UPA-II completing three years in power also marks the beginning of slog overs before the 2014 elections.
06 Jun, 2012, 06.42 AM IST
- Congress' Lilliputian satraps
Maharashtra CM meekly succumbing to Sena blackmail on Rohinton Mistry's book is a typical example of a Congress leader displaying his spine...
26 Oct, 2010, 08.33 AM IST
- Hooda, last of the Congress satrap, falls
Congress has been left without regional satraps after a shocker of a verdict in the Haryana polls robbed Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda of his ta...
23 Oct, 2009, 03.00 AM IST
- Exit of a mighty satrap
YSR was seasoned enough to remain connected with the rural masses.
04 Sep, 2009, 01.27 AM IST