MANINI CHATTERJEE
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
UP shows Congress can revive: if it drops old-style patronage and stops wishing away caste
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
Crushing the lotus under its foot, toppling the cycle by the wayside, and spurning the gratuitous offer of a helping hand...
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 pol
Hindutva lost in caste cauldron: Brahmins veer towards BSP to take on Jats; BJP banks on Brahmin vote split
Of the 25 odd seats that the Congress won in the 2002 Uttar Pradesh elections, the victory in Aligarh was arguably the most significant.
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 cat
Mayawati may never have been to an architecture school nor, as far as we know, taken much interest in Marxist dialectics.
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 com
Beni Prasad Verma’s departure from the Samajwadi Party to set up his own Samajwadi Kranti Dal (SKD) may not make a big impact
Buoyed by the overtures from the Shiv Sena, which it has for the moment rejected, the Nationalist Congress Party
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 Babr
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 Varu
Congress’s organisational lethargy stops it from even dreaming of a revival
If the good showing in the Uttar Pradesh mayoral polls and the Maharashtra municipal elections were stray indications of a long-awaited revival
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 o
The Election Commission’s announcement this evening of a seven-phase poll in Uttar Pradesh beginning April 7 provided the Congress party...
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
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 presiden
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 Su
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 h
...that’s the lesson Cong gets after Maharashtra civic polls results; looks forward to ties with NCP in civic bodies where their combined numbers exce
BJP chief Rajnath Singh’s RSS-backed decision to drop Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi
Get ready for old-fashioned politics, as the Big Two battle it out this year
