The NITI Aayog vice chairman says the government must speak to BJP chief ministers as his organisation has no more leverage with the states for a cut in oil
The deregulation of fuel prices was meant to make things easier for the aam aadmi, it is instead being used to increase taxation, writes Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
This casts a shadow on the success of Aramco’s IPO, long in the making.