Cong doesn’t want to spare Pranab for President but why he has reason to hope

Tuesday 29 May '07

With the BJP set on nominating Bhairon Singh Shekhawat for the post of the next President and important UPA partners as well as Left allies unwilling

Authority at stake, CPM Politburo suspends Kerala CM & bitter rival

Sunday 27 May '07

In an unprecedented move, reflecting both despair and desperation, the CPM Politburo, the party’s highest decision-making body, publicly reprimanded...

Maya’s ‘subtle’ Hindutva

Thursday 17 May '07

front-page analysis of the BSP’s victory in the UP elections, editor R. Balashankar is all praise for Mayawati and concedes that she took away a chunk of BJP’s votes, not the SP’s...

More than Maya

Thursday 17 May '07

UP shows Congress can revive: if it drops old-style patronage and stops wishing away caste

In a village where they broke ranks, they talk of shasan, naukri, wait for ‘our first experiment’ to deliver

Sunday 13 May '07

In a village where they broke ranks, they talk of shasan, naukri, wait for ‘our first experiment’ to deliver

First majority govt in UP in 14 yrs, BJP gets minority status

Saturday 12 May '07

Crushing the lotus under its foot, toppling the cycle by the wayside, and spurning the gratuitous offer of a helping hand...

‘5/11’ key to next President

Thursday 10 May '07

A peculiar sense of lassitude, laced with both trepidation and hope, seems to have descended over the corridors of power in Delhi, with the entire political class waiting for, what one MP termed, “our own 5/11” to unfold.

In Lord Krishna’s backyard, BJP will need a lot more than a CD

Thursday 12 April '07

Hindutva lost in caste cauldron: Brahmins veer towards BSP to take on Jats; BJP banks on Brahmin vote split

In heart of Cong’s Muslim bastion, voters prefer to ride on Mulayam’s cycle

Wednesday 11 April '07

Of the 25 odd seats that the Congress won in the 2002 Uttar Pradesh elections, the victory in Aligarh was arguably the most significant.

Congress ke paas apna kuch nahin hai, they say, as they all line up to watch Rahulji

Tuesday 10 April '07

Purely in terms of a visual experience, the spectacle is guaranteed to warm even the most despairing Congress heart. Men of all ages rush madly to catch a glimpse

Charan Singh legacy can’t hold, Mayawati starts moving in to fill western UP vacuum

Monday 9 April '07

Mayawati may never have been to an architecture school nor, as far as we know, taken much interest in Marxist dialectics.

Yogi, BJP strike a compromise

Saturday 31 March '07

In a clear signal of the increasing, hands-on role of the Sangh Parivar in the affairs of the BJP, VHP president Ashok Singhal managed to effect a compromise between the Uttar Pradesh unit of the party and rebel MP Yogi Adityanath at Gorakhpur today.

Beni’s move could see UP going the Bihar way

Friday 30 March '07

Beni Prasad Verma’s departure from the Samajwadi Party to set up his own Samajwadi Kranti Dal (SKD) may not make a big impact

NCP’s UP tug at straining Cong ties

Friday 23 March '07

Buoyed by the overtures from the Shiv Sena, which it has for the moment rejected, the Nationalist Congress Party

If a Gandhi was active, Babri wouldn’t have fallen: Rahul

Tuesday 20 March '07

Raising the pitch in the run-up to the UP Assembly polls, Rahul Gandhi today said that had anyone from the Gandhi family been active in 1992, the Babri Masjid demolition would have never taken place.

Varun Gandhi turns down BJP offer of UP seats

Saturday 17 March '07

The BJP leadership’s attempt to play a Gandhi versus Gandhi card in the coming UP elections has received a setback with national executive member Varun Gandhi...

In victory glow, recharged BJP gives notice to UPA, sets UP as next target

Wednesday 28 February '07

If the good showing in the Uttar Pradesh mayoral polls and the Maharashtra municipal elections were stray indications of a long-awaited revival

How the north was lost

Wednesday 28 February '07

Congress’s organisational lethargy stops it from even dreaming of a revival

In Lalu vs BJP, minister comes out a winner

Tuesday 27 February '07

In the raucous contest of lungpower in the Lok Sabha today, the collective voice of the BJP-led Opposition was no match for the stamina and chutzpah of Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav.

EC gives UP its poll dates, UPA a code of conduct

Thursday 22 February '07

The Election Commission’s announcement this evening of a seven-phase poll in Uttar Pradesh beginning April 7 provided the Congress party...

BJP thinks attack will beef up its terror poll plank in Uttarakhand

Tuesday 20 February '07

The BJP leadership on Monday officially condemned the blast on the Samjhauta Express and reiterated its demand for “a more stringent Bill than POTA to tackle the scourge of terrorism”.

UP shadow on presidential polls: Left, non-UPA parties could upset Cong plans

Monday 19 February '07

The Amitabh Bachchan trial balloon may not reach very far but the present imbroglio in Uttar Pradesh is certain to cast a long shadow on the presidential elections

CPM underlines its opposition, reaches out to other allies

Sunday 18 February '07

As Congress leaders began to lay the ground for the dismissal of the Mulayam Singh government in Uttar Pradesh, fresh voices today joined the CPI(M) in opposing the imposition of President’s Rule.

Cong wants Raj Bhavan to rule UP, ally CPM says don’t do it

Saturday 17 February '07

The CPI(M) today strongly rejected the Congress proposal to dismiss the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh in light of the February 14 Supreme Court

BJP banking on Hindu-Sikh card to win Punjab

Thursday 15 February '07

If the BJP’s Sikh candidates manage to win, and the Akali Dal’s Hindu candidates also fare well, it will confirm that a new phase in Punjab politics has set in— Arun Jaitley