Outgoing Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy was propped by yesteryears’ Congress establishment in Delhi but done in by Delhi’s new political order of the BJP. The downfall of the Congress regime in the Union Territory also means the party would experience a rare ‘power cut’ across south India. It is no coincidence that ‘Samy’ lost … Read more
Amid the observations that the passing of Congress leader Ahmed Patel was an irreparable loss to the party, it was forgotten how its fortunes had taken a U-turn in barely three years. In August 2017, the “irreplaceable comrade” acted more like an accomplished commissar, felling the Chanakya of contemporary Indian politics — Amit Shah. In … Read more
NEW DELHI: BJP MPs in the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology have alleged that members of the fact-checking team of Facebook are left-leaning and this has led to a bias against the ruling party on issues of hate-content. They shared a list of these employees and their remarks on various platforms with the Facebook … Read more
NEW DELHI: Alleging that there was a clear “BJP conspiracy” to topple the Ashok Gehlot government in Rajasthan, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the governor must convene an assembly session so that the truth comes out before the country. Gandhi weighed in on the political developments in Rajasthan after the Congress attacked Governor … Read more