Kolkata rally organised by TMC leader Mamata Banerjee was not just an anti-Modi rally, it was more of a non-Rahul Gandhi rally, the BJP leader wrote on his Facebook blog.
Arun Jaitley had criticised the SC order quashing the NJAC in 2015, but a judicial magistrate ordered that he be tried for sedition and encouraging mutiny.
India has a fiscal responsibility law that lays out a glide path for reducing the Centre’s deficit, but govts have inevitably resorted to Fudgets.
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In a country where unemployment is at a historic high, the national anxiety isn’t about jobs — it’s about reach. Aspirations have shifted from employment to engagement, from careers to content.
Indians have got over their fright of coalitions. The major constituents of the Mahagatbandhan – although the contours of the opposition grouping are still a little hazy, may be more sharply etched as we head into the general election – are responsible regional parties that govern important states. As CM Kamal Nath reminded us, the DMK won 40 / 40 seats, became the sheet anchor of UPA in Delhi in 2004. To a larger extent than the media narrative currently suggests, the next election will not be presidential in character, not overly dependent on personalities. It will be, as all elections are, a referendum on good work done by the incumbent over its five year term. It will be decided state by state, with a lot riding on the CMs.
Indians have got over their fright of coalitions. The major constituents of the Mahagatbandhan – although the contours of the opposition grouping are still a little hazy, may be more sharply etched as we head into the general election – are responsible regional parties that govern important states. As CM Kamal Nath reminded us, the DMK won 40 / 40 seats, became the sheet anchor of UPA in Delhi in 2004. To a larger extent than the media narrative currently suggests, the next election will not be presidential in character, not overly dependent on personalities. It will be, as all elections are, a referendum on good work done by the incumbent over its five year term. It will be decided state by state, with a lot riding on the CMs.