An investor’s blunt post on India’s tax burden has reignited criticism of the country’s indirect tax structure, drawing attention to the compounding effects of GST and levies on high-end purchases. “If buy any SUV in India, you have to pay over 50% in taxes to the government of India,” wrote investor A K Mandhan on … Read more
Shashi Tharoor | Photo Credit: Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar Literature has often been Shashi Tharoor’s calling card, at times even more than his politics, but words have also been his Achilles heel in politics, right from the “cattle class” and “holy cows” comments in 2009. Misinterpreted or otherwise, the four-time Lok Sabha MP’s utterances and … Read more
In a tweet, Shashi Tharoor said, “As the Manipur violence persists, all right-thinking Indians must ask themselves what happened to the much-vaunted good governance we had been promised.” | Photo Credit: PTI Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on May 7 said the voters of Manipur are feeling “grossly betrayed” just a year after putting the … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the flagging off ceremony of Kerala’s first Vande Bharat Express, in Thiruvananthapuram, on April 25, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi said only a strong government at the Centre could harness the power of States to spur national development. On April 25, Mr. Modi was in Thiruvananthapuram … Read more
Welcoming the recent “wave of Opposition unity”, Lok Sabha MP Shashi Tharoor on Sunday said the Congress will be the de facto fulcrum around which other parties converge. He however asserted that if he were in the party leadership, he would not “crow about it” and encourage one of the smaller outfits to play the … Read more
Sonia Gandhi said the Congress faces many challenges but with unity and strength it will move forward to tackle them as it has done before Sonia Gandhi said the Congress faces many challenges but with unity and strength it will move forward to tackle them as it has done before Veteran leader Mallikarjun Kharge formally … Read more
The former union minister lauds Shashi Tharoor for taking on the challenge to contest the top Congress post. The former union minister lauds Shashi Tharoor for taking on the challenge to contest the top Congress post. Former Congress leader Ashwani Kumar has said the election of Mallikarjun Kharge as party president by a huge margin … Read more
Dubbed “Congress‘ T N Seshan” by many party colleagues, AICC central election authority chairman Madhusudan Mistry presided over the sixth polls in the party’s history for electing its chief while deftly navigating through talk of uneven playing field and constant media glare. Believed to be a trusted man of former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, Mistry … Read more
He lost the election but Shashi Tharoor managed to score many a political point during his campaign for Congress president, a contest he lost to veteran party colleague Mallikarjun Kharge who was favoured to win. The author, wordsmith, former UN diplomat and social media pioneer with 8.3 million followers on Twitter demonstrated during the last … Read more
Mallikarjun Kharge has won the Congress Presidential elections by a landslide margin with 7,897 votes, senior leader Pramod Tiwari announced. Rival candidate Shashi Tharoor has congratulated President-elect Kharge and said that the revival of the party has truly begun today. Kharge will be the first non-Gandhi president of the party in 24 years. Congress Presidential … Read more