BRS and Kalvakuntla’s Face Fresh Trouble

As Telangana braces for the upcoming local body elections, the principal opposition party—Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS)—and its first family, the Kalvakuntlas, find themselves entangled in yet another political and financial controversy. This time, it’s not over irrigation contracts, land deals, or excise scams, but over cricket—specifically, the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA), a body now under…

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Who Betrayed the Constitution?

The Congress party’s newfound obsession with “saving the Constitution” might have been mildly amusing if it weren’t so tragically hypocritical. The very party that trampled on India’s constitutional spirit time and again—from suppressing free speech during the Emergency to distorting the Constitution’s Preamble with ideologically loaded insertions—now claims to be its saviour. One might ask:…

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Political Gossip Isn’t Analysis

Speculation is the lifeblood of political commentary. But what we’re witnessing today from a growing breed of so-called political analysts is not just lazy conjecture — it borders on absurdity. The current buzz over who will succeed JP Nadda as the BJP’s national president is a perfect example. Far from reasoned analysis, much of what’s…

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Crowds for Jagan, Chaos for Naidu? Andhra’s Coalition Circus

MP Rabindranath It’s been barely a year since the TDP-led coalition stormed to power in Andhra Pradesh, and already, the glow of “praja ashirwad” seems to be fading into a fog of dysfunction. The Naidu-Pawan-BJP alliance, stitched together with electoral arithmetic and an overdose of anti-incumbency, is now struggling to pass the test of governance….

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Promises, Pensions, and Political Potholes: Revanth Reddy’s Reality Check

MP Rabindranath Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy seems to have discovered that running a government is a tad trickier than running a campaign. Just a year and a half after storming to power with grand promises and “guarantees,” the man now finds himself doing the political equivalent of backpedalling on a treadmill—blaming the previous…

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