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Opinion: Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Nyay Yatra - Bad Timing?

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday December 29, 2023

Congress sources say Sonia Gandhi will attend the event on January 22. In an indication of the party's dilemma, it took three days to react to the statement from Chicago by overseas Congress chief Sam Pitroda, considered Rahul Gandhi's mentor.

Opinion: Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal's Kharge Googly

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday December 22, 2023

The fourth meeting of the 28-party INDIA alliance did not produce a common vision document listing an agenda to take on the BJP-led NDA in 2024. All talk of setting up a campaign secretariat seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Opinion: Pranab Mukherjee Felt Rahul Gandhi Is "Yet To Mature Politically"

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday December 08, 2023

"What right does he have to humiliate the PM like this?" he noted in his diary. "He has all the arrogance of his Gandhi-Nehru lineage without their political acumen," he added and observed, "Maybe politics wasn't his (Rahul's) calling."

Opinion: "Modi <I>Ki</I> Guarantee" Is The BJP's Warranty

Opinion: "Modi Ki Guarantee" Is The BJP's Warranty

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Monday December 04, 2023

The BJP's triumph and the Congress's inability to hold its ground in the heartland marked the state election results.

Opinion: Supreme Court's Hindenburg Observations Should Bring Down "AQI" In Politics

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday November 25, 2023

In addition to the national capital being polluted to hazardous levels, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) reaching its nadir, the nation's political atmosphere too is affected by the rising 'AQI' (Accusation Quotient Index).

Opinion: Mahua Moitra's Conduct Compounds Ethics Case - Will It Attract Contempt?

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Sunday November 05, 2023

Mahua Moitra may have lost her opportunity to defend her conduct before Lok Sabha's Ethics Committee with her behaviour during the proceedings and her subsequent stomping out of the room heaping allegations against the panel's chairman to the media.

Opinion: Mamata Banerjee Will Find It Hard To Defend L'affaire Mahua Moitra

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Wednesday October 25, 2023

Trinamool, which is quick to play victim and allege the misuse of agencies by the Centre when scams related to the state are probed, maintained a deafening silence as charges were traded on what has come to be known as the "cash-for-query" scam.

Opinion: Rahul Gandhi Crafts His Own Narrative, Separate From Congress

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday October 07, 2023

Will Rahul Gandhi's bid to shape his own narrative, differing from his party's legacy, help the Congress reverse its slide in 2024?

Opinion: Kamal Nath Shows Mirror To INDIA, Stalls Rally

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Monday September 18, 2023

The road to anti-BJP unity is riddled by potholes.

Opinion: Cheerio India, <i>Namaste</i> Bharat

Opinion: Cheerio India, Namaste Bharat

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday September 16, 2023

The special session of parliament beginning Monday has generated much speculation. The media has been approaching the subject like the proverbial blind men and an elephant.

Opinion: African Union In G20 - Seismic Change Under Modi's Leadership

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Monday September 11, 2023

"There is enough room for India in Africa," Assoumani declared and called India "the 5th superpower in terms of inhabitancy, ahead of China".

Opinion: Mahatma's Champaran To Rahul Gandhi's Champaran Mutton

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Wednesday September 06, 2023

The name Champaran is hallowed in the annals of the Indian National Congress. After his return from South Africa in 1915, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's first Satyagraha in India was at Champaran in 1917.

Opinion: Diversity In Unity - After Arvind Kejriwal, Nitish Kumar, Mamata Banerjee Skip Joint INDIA Briefing

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Sunday September 03, 2023

The scenario emerging for the next general election is similar to that of 1971, when a combined opposition tried to oust a strong Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi. Their war cry "Indira hatao" was effectively countered by Indira Gandhi's "garibi hatao".

Opinion: Now Rahul Gandhi "OutSoros-es" His Attack On Narendra Modi

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Friday September 01, 2023

On Thursday, August 31, while 63 leaders of 28 parties who constitute the organisation with the moniker "Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance" (INDIA) prepared for their two-day meet in India's financial capital, Mumbai.

Opinion: NDA Thunder, I.N.D.I.A. Whimper Mark No-Trust Motion

Shubhabrata Bhattacharya | Saturday August 12, 2023

The Monsoon Session, perhaps the last sitting to be held at the old parliament building, has witnessed the transformation of India's apex legislature from being a forum of discussion, debate and decisions to a poll campaign arena.

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