Page 4 - Indian Politics

Political culture

A country as diverse as ours needs a political culture rooted in constitutional values and political discourse based on truth, respect, civility, and restraint

Best of BS Opinion: The missing foreign bogey, income volatility, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Gujarat Cong MLA asks party workers to pelt stones at BJP candidates' homes

Congress MLA Chandrikaben Baria recently asked party workers to pelt stones on the house of the BJP candidates who won the recent panchayat elections, claiming they won by unfair means

Opposition parties form govt to loot: UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh

Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh on Tuesday targeted the Opposition, saying they form governments to loot and promote families in politics

Opportunities come but will see where it goes: Ganguly on joining politics

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly kept his cards close to his chest amid mounting speculation that he might take the political plunge ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections

Frames per Second: The strange career of Kissa Kursi Ka

The film critical of Indira Gandhi's regime was banned during the Emergency, but what's the purpose of continued censorship now?

Shekhar Gupta: Two fronts, one challenge

India must break out of the strategic triangulation between China and Pakistan. Before that, it has to decide if it will allow domestic electoral interests limit its strategic options

'Hitchiker's guide to democratic palsy'

Book review of Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope

BJP using emotions so people don't raise issues of misgovernance: Congress

The Congress accused the BJP government of "manufacturing controversies" and using emotions to divide people so that they do not raise issues of misgovernance and economic mismanagement.

Shekhar Gupta: Politics takes economic turn

New ideological battle lines have been drawn in Indian politics and they're on economic terrain. It is change for good

Best of BS Opinion: A different Modi, politics takes economic turn & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Cong, regional parties bent on Babur's rule in Assam: BJP MLA Himanta

Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said the sole aim of the entire opposition, comprising the Congress-led Grand Alliance and the newly-formed regional parties, is to bring "Babur's rule" in the state

Dynastic politics biggest enemy of democracy, says PM Narendra Modi

The nation's politics like any other sector needs them and their new thoughts, energy, ideas and dreams a lot, he said

Retrospective restraint: Pranab's last memoir hides more than it tells

It avoids real political issues, refuses to go into details, hides more than it tells, and is therefore a big let-down

Rising quietly, organically

Shiv Sena and AIMIM are growing without engineering splits or defections

Who will take vaccine with question marks on its reliability: Manish Tewari

Congress leader Manish Tewari said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has "politically misused" the Covid-19 pandemic and raised question marks on the reliability of the vaccine

Sourav Ganguly was under pressure to join politics, says CPI(M) leader

Senior CPI(M) leader Ashok Bhattacharya's statement that former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly, who suffered a heart attack, was under pressure to join politics created a storm

Chaos, uneasy peace: 2020, a year of protests and politics amid Covid-19

This year was bookended by protests-anti-CAA demonstrations in the beginning and farmer agitation at the end. A violent standoff with China also kept the nation on edge

Sonia and Rahul Gandhi skip Congress party's 136th Foundation Day event

Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday gave the party's 136th Foundation Day event a miss

Shiv Sena mocks PM Modi for visiting gurdwara amid farmers' protest

Prime Minister Modi sought inspiration from Guru Tegh Bahadur. Thousands of Sikh fighters are also fighting (protesting) from the same inspiration near Delhi border, Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said