Members of the present party in government were largely in the opposition post-Independence. Their conduct should be compared to that of today’s opposition.
The fabricated video of Rahul Gandhi admitting pushing BJP MP was shared by Amit Malviya, head of the BJP IT department. His post had over 35,000 views and 1,500 reposts.
Both Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill seek to bring in reservation-related changes.
Resistance to decentralisation does not come much from All-India Service officers but from state-level political leadership who know their powers of patronage will be curtailed.
The opposition’s debate over the Constitution (First Amendment) Bill in 1951 was a far cry from the kind of brawling that led to 12 RS members being suspended from Parliament.
PM Modi said elected representatives wouldn’t be prioritised, but the age of a majority of lawmakers and CMs automatically places them in the priority bracket.
After four years of obsequiousness, many BJP MPs have woken up to their irrelevance in the party’s scheme of things, which centre around Modi’s popularity and Amit Shah’s organisational skill.
A poor Muslim man from Kurnool, selling khoya buns during the Medaram Jatara in Telangana, was harassed by some YouTubers and surrounded by a mob over allegations of 'food jihad'.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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