While Congress has claimed credit for the name — an acronym for Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance — many from the meeting attributed the idea to Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
Name of alliance was suggested by Mamata, it is learnt. Parties who attended meeting included Congress, DMK, TMC, JDU, RJD, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (Sharad Pawar), CPI(M), SP etc.
Tamil Nadu CM's social justice event, which DMK says was 'non-political', was attended by leaders of 19 political parties. Issues like need for caste census and reservations were discussed.
As NCP leaders joined the yatra, ally Shiv Sena's Uddhav Thackeray also hailed it as a movement to end the 'atmosphere of bitterness' and unite the country.
Salvatore Babones told ThePrint that he got registered as a foreign agent because of a 'consulting assignment' with a media company in India, for 'a period of less than 6 months'.
Last week, two AIMIM MLAs voted for MVA candidates in the Maharashtra MLC polls. Experts say that the party is trying to shed its image of being "BJP’s B-team".
Sharad Pawar and Mamata Banerjee met for an hour Wednesday, and said they would work towards forming an opposition alliance of like-minded parties for 2024 elections.
The question isn't anymore about which non-BJP party can get Muslim votes. The more relevant question is which secular party can get enough Hindu votes.
The Maha Vikas Aghadi says Trinamool's win showed that the one way to defeat the BJP at a national level was to bring this strength of regional forces and non-BJP parties together.
In the centuries to come, economist Bibek Debroy's Mahabharata will attain the importance we attach to the texts of Shankara, Ramanuja, and Madhvacharya.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
The decorated Naga officer from Manipur also served as envoy to Myanmar & Nagaland chief secy. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated a museum dedicated to the Tawang hero Thursday.
Congress is silently acknowledging it over-read verdict of last general election. You can see it in easy concession to SP. It will likely be more reasonable in Maharashtra & Jharkhand.
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