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Tuesday, December 16, 2025
TopicOpposition

Topic: opposition

2024 is an open race. But the question is what can change the game before election

Basic equation for 2024 isn't hard to spell out. BJP’s SWOT analysis is all around Modi. And while economics presents an opportunity for opposition, politics is its biggest threat.

2 things hurting Indian politics today — BJP exceptionalism, Opposition’s attack on Modi

Good governance isn’t imposed from the top — it grows bottom up. Govt must engage with the masses, have impartial judiciary, and even make voting compulsory.

Opposition can’t junk everything BJP & not all opposition corrupt. Need working relationship

The BJP cannot preach vasudhaiva kutumbakam abroad while the Indian parliament is itself a house divided.

President not inaugurating new Parliament is ‘insult to India’s democracy,’ writes Urdu press

New Delhi: The inauguration of the new Parliament building on 28 May and its boycott by 20 Opposition parties remained on the front pages...

Row over Parliament building shows politics in India never stops, national symbol or not

Few parties such as BJD and JD(S) have backed the PM—indicative of a growing realisation that opposing him on an issue surrounding a national symbol may not work.

Modi right to inaugurate Parliament building. Opposition ignoring precedent set by Nehru

While it would be better for the Modi government to invite President Droupadi Murmu at the inauguration function as a matter of moral practice, it is not a legal requirement.

Opposition’s comeback album: ‘Didi, oh, Didi’. And Where’s Waldo? Certainly not in Punjab

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘Standing together, will fight…:’ Rahul, Nitish, Tejashwi meet in Delhi to unify Opposition in 2024

Their three parties are in power in Bihar, with Congress being the junior partner in the state.

After Rahul Gandhi’s conviction, opposition unites to take on PM Modi

On Wednesday, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee called for a unified opposition to challenge Modi's BJP in the 2024 elections.

On Camera

Why district judges almost never make it to India’s Supreme Court

Indian judiciary has a corrosive imbalance between the bar and the bench. Those who supervise the district judiciary do so without the lived experience that is essential for meaningful reform.

India’s merchandise exports to US rising month-on-month despite Trump tariffs, govt data shows

November exports to the US saw 10% growth from the previous month. Overall, in the first 8 months this fiscal, the merchandise exports to the US touched has touched $59bn.

US clears $686-mn package to breathe fresh life into Pakistani F-16s

Of the total package, $649 million will be utilised for additional hardware, software, and support services, and the remaining for Major Defence Equipment (MDE).

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.