Has Rahul turned into BJP’s asset?

The immaturity, unwillingness to learn from his mistakes and bad copywriters for former Congress president Rahul Gandhi are the root cause for the party’s decimation from the national political canvas. Many Gandhi loyalists may want people to believe it was Rahul’s Sankalp Yatra that helped the Congress win Himachal Pradesh and Karnataka elections, which is…

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Unpredictable verdict in store for Telangana

As the Telangana election date is getting closer, social media has become more active than conventional print and visual media. A report attributed to poll strategist Prashant Kishore of IPac sounded dooms day for the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) with a screaming headline, “Car speed sealed at 24” (Car is the ruling BRS official…

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Will pollsters eat crow in Telangana?

The election fever is catching up in Telangana, but the pollsters, slowly but surely, accepting the fact that the elections this time are becoming extremely difficult to predict. This is evident from the varying projections from the C-Voter to the latest India Today TV. While the C-Voter survey claims that the Congress set to cross the…

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Oppn bloc’s yet another self-goal

The recent decision of the sub-committee on media of the 28 Opposition parties’ Indian National Democratic Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A.) bloc to boycott some TV news anchors exposes its growing ‘intolerance’ in facing tough questions. The blocked anchors include; Arnab Goswami, editor-in-chief of Republic TV; Rubika Liyaquat, anchor at Bharat24; Sudhir Chaudhary, Chitra Tripathi, Gaurav Sawant…

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Naidu’s foggy future

With the general elections just less than a year away, major political parties are up to their tricks again to prevent each other from gaining an upper hand. Although, as of now, the pollsters are  giving a clear edge in Andhra Pradesh (AP) to the ruling Yuvajana Sramika Rythu Congress Party (YSRCP) headed by YS…

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Will KCR’s welfare gamble help?

In his desperation to retain power for the third time the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) founder and Telengana Chief Minister Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR) is leaving no stone unturned. He is making promises left, right and centre to appease all and sundry.  More than any vote bank he appears to be more concerned about the…

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BJP’s focus now on Telugu states

With the assembly and general elections round the corner, desperation among the ruling and Opposition parties to retain or snatch power is gaining momentum in both the Telugu states –Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. After the state bifurcation, Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), spearheaded by Kalvakuntla Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR),  might have swept the polls in 2014 and…

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Act in Manipur and elsewhere too!

The north-eastern state of Manipur, bordering Myanmar and China, is in the news, of late. Simply because of the widespread ethnic violence and killings due to a trending video of two women being dragged out of their homes, gang-raped and paraded naked by hooligans.. No level-headed soul will dare not condemn and question the insensitive…

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Conspiracy theories over Delhi inundation

Many parts of the national capital, Delhi, are under siege. Unprecedented rains led the Yamuna to overflow, leading to the inundation of several areas, including the Raj Ghat and the Supreme Court. As usual, the blame game has begun and this natural calamity is being built as a ‘conspiracy narrative’ by the well-known lying machine…

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