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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicPolitical parties

Topic: Political parties

As Congress mulls next president, the flip side of inner party democracy

+TFP Praveen Chakravarty -
US and UK parties have internal elections to choose leaders. But that has both pros and cons.

25% of over 600 candidates in UP polls 1st phase face criminal charges: ADR study of affidavits

Shikha Salaria -
ADR's report states 20% of all candidates for 1st phase are accused of serious crimes, such as murder, attempt to murder or rape.

Three factors that tells us who has an edge in UP elections under Covid cloud

Badri Narayan -
EC has announced no physical rallies in the five states going to polls. Now it depends on which leader can go viral online like Modi.

SubscriberWrites: IkkJutt Jammu has emerged as political alternative for people in the state

Ansh Chowdhari -
There is an undercurrent of angst against BJP on many fronts. The foremost being the latter of being highly hostile to the people of Jammu, writes Ansh Chowdhari.

Off the Cuff with Capt. Amarinder Singh

Shivani Rawat -
Our next ThePrint 'Off The Cuff' guest is former Punjab chief minister Capt. Amarinder Singh. In a conversation with Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Singh hinted...

Upper caste networks of political parties are resisting caste census. But not for long

Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd -
Telangana's project shows that caste census can benefit Dalits and OBCs. But parties like BJP and Congress are too busy with their Dwija networks.

The art of conjuring realities – How the BJP gets Hindus to believe ‘love jihad’ story

Shivam Shankar Singh -
In ‘The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities’, Shivam Shankar Singh and Anand Venkatanarayanan write how political parties, godmen, nation-states manipulate our thoughts.

All parties promise ‘achhe din’. But only BJP has the 3 Ms that make it stand apart

Dilip Mandal -
BJP is the only party with a story today. The politics of all other parties — Congress to BSP — revolve around it.

Killing Vikas Dubey doesn’t end crime. For that, parties must let go of control over police

B.L. Vohra -
India needs urgent police reforms, otherwise political parties will continue to shield Vikas Dubeys, turning them into rich politicians with no fear of law.

Political parties battle each other in Indian slums by using rumours and violence

Adam Michael Auerbach -
In Demanding Development, Adam Michael Auerbach writes on the competition between different party workers in slums and how it fragments leadership.
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Opinion

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

Swasti Rao -
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Mamdani must face blind spots of his Muslim identity—and the wrongs done in its name

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

+TFP Debdutta Chakraborty -
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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