Swati Chaturvedi – Author, NDTV.com

Opinion: The Consequences For Modi And BJP Of Amit Shah's Delhi Disaster

Swati Chaturvedi | Friday February 14, 2020

Amit Shah, the most powerful Home Minister in recent times and undoubtedly the face of the BJP's campaign in Delhi, has ceded that the dark, divisive and communal exercise to win Delhi may have led to the party's monumental defeat.

Opinion: Kejriwal's 62-Seat Takedown Of Amit Shah

Swati Chaturvedi | Tuesday February 11, 2020

Arvind Kejriwal has aced "smart politics"; he refused to fall into the trap of Amit Shah's Big Bang Hyper-Nationalism and has 62 seats to show for it.

Opinion: He Pinged Gandhis, Mamata, Stalin - New Allegations vs Nitish

Swati Chaturvedi | Wednesday January 29, 2020

Even if Kishor's allegations are dismissed as an exit rant, Shah ought to be worried about the BJP's alliance with Kumar. The party has lost the Shiv Sena to the rival team and another ally, the Akali Dal, is restive. Nitish Kumar doubtless wants to be seen as up for grabs. It can only help.

Opinion: RG To Return As Congress Chief. Does Anyone Really Care?

Swati Chaturvedi | Tuesday January 28, 2020

RG will soon turn 50 and the Congress hopes that as anger against the Modi government grows, his nth return to the party's centre will have greater traction.

Opinion: PGV's House-Hunt In Lucknow Leads To New Congress Hopes

Swati Chaturvedi | Monday January 20, 2020

The UP state elections are due in two years and the Congress makes the obvious sell that PGV is in it for the long haul. But voters have grown wary of the Gandhi family, sensing a lack of commitment in actually moving to or spending substantial time in UP.

Opinion: Nadda Takes Charge Next Week - But Shah Will Be Super-Boss

Swati Chaturvedi | Tuesday January 14, 2020

Amit Shah, called ".303" (after the famous rifle) by his team will hand over charge to Nadda on January 20.

Opinion: Nitish Kumar's Unsubtle Challenge To Amit Shah On CAA

Swati Chaturvedi | Monday January 13, 2020

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar spoke to the Bihar assembly this morning and moved his political counters away from the BJP on the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

Opinion: In Aaditya Thackeray's Promotion, The Role Of Mother Rashmi

Swati Chaturvedi | Monday December 30, 2019

Thackeray Junior's triple-barrel surname reveals a whole lot of things about Sena politics and the huge influence of Rashmi Thackeray who is by all accounts the lead political strategist in the family and has played a huge role in shaping her older son's professional choices.

Opinion: Amit Shah 1.0 Is Defining Modi 2.0 - With Big Consequences

Swati Chaturvedi | Tuesday December 24, 2019

What has changed since the Prime Minister returned for a second term with an even bigger score than his landmark victory in 2014? The emergence of Amit Shah, who doubles up as Home Minister and BJP President, as the most powerful politician in the country.

Opinion: Modi And Shah Will Double Down On CAA And Then NRC

Swati Chaturvedi | Sunday December 22, 2019

It was supposed to be the grand launch of the BJP's Delhi campaign by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. But the protracted Modi speech at Delhi's Ram Lila Maidan was loaded with dollops of denial about the flawed CAA/NRC which has seen at least 20 people killed in nationwide protests. There was also plenty of the Modi self-pity last on display during and immediately after...

Opinion: Nitish, Naveen, Others Distance Themselves From BJP

Swati Chaturvedi | Friday December 20, 2019

As thousands of people gathered at the August KrantiMaidan in Mumbai, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray showed his leadership chops by not just allowing but facilitating the massive rally against the flawed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and its bigoted twin, the National Citizens Register.

Opinion: Again, A Huge Missed Opportunity For Rahul Gandhi

Swati Chaturvedi | Monday December 16, 2019

As campus after campus joins the protests over the deeply flawed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the comments from the Modi government have been limp. Amit Shah today appealed to students to study the act and said they are being misled. Worse is the response from India's main opposition party - the Congress.

Opinion: How Pawar Intervened To Bridge Congress-Sena Gap On CAB

Swati Chaturvedi | Thursday December 12, 2019

By fulfilling its core promises, the BJP is unifying its base; it is also counting on emerging as the sole party dedicated to the Hindu Samaj as envisioned by the RSS, its mentor. The bonus for the party is that the bad news on the economy simply does not matter as the headlines are now focusing on other issues like CAB.

Opinion: Yediyurappa's Victory Sends Clear Signal To Shah-Modi Too

Swati Chaturvedi | Monday December 09, 2019

BS Yediyurappa, Chief Minister of Karnataka, this morning pulled of a personal victory in the high stakes by-election battle with the Congress and Janata Dal Secular. Powered largely by defectors from those parties, the BJP, at noon, was placed to win 12 of 15 seats.

Opinion: An Indecent Proposal? Pawar Takes On Modi - What He's Gambling On

Swati Chaturvedi | Tuesday December 03, 2019

Pawar has gone public on Modi's proposal to expose the BJP's unbridled lust for power in Maharashtra at a time when critics of the PM see him as having compromised his reputation and image by facilitating the lifting of President's Rule at the crack of dawn to allow an early-bird swearing-in of the BJP's Devendra Fadnavis as Chief Minister.

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