A month after the government in Karnataka sought to send a political signal by scrapping a separate quota for Muslims, the administration has taken a temporary U-turn, telling the Supreme Court that it will hold off on implementing the changes till the next date of hearing, May 9. This effectively also means that the contentious […]
Tag Archives: Congress
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Apr
Apr
The ongoing drama over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate list for the forthcoming assembly election in Karnataka should not surprise anyone. Disappointment, dissent, and defection by aspirants who don’t find their names on the list isn’t unique to the state, although it does take it to a different level altogether, and doesn’t fit the […]
12
Apr
Apr
For the first time in five years, the Election Commission of India (ECI) revised its list of state-level and national-level parties this week, granting national party status to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and downgrading the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). India now has six […]
10
Apr
Apr
An announcement by senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot that he will hold a day-long hunger strike against what he called inaction by the Rajasthan government on corruption cases has confirmed what has been known for some time – that differences between chief minister Ashok Gehlot and his once-deputy that plunged the government into crisis three […]
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Mar
Mar
Three axes will be at play when Karnataka, the first major state to go to the polls this year, votes in assembly elections on May 10. The first is polarisation, an old fault line in the coastal regions of the state, a region which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept in 2018 and which its […]