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By Rahul Shrivastava: This is a classic example of how politics in India never sleeps and political calculators never go silent. On the evening of March 10, when the Election Commission was wrapping up the EVMs which had delivered four state verdicts in favour of the BJP and one for the AAP, a new set of complex computations were initiated with a July deadline in mind. By July 24, India has to elect a new President. In October last year, President Ram Nath Kovind (whose five-year term ends in July 2022) turned 76. If the BJP applies PM Modi’s “no appointment to a public office after 75 years” formula, it can be safely said that the Modi-Shah duo along with the RSS are currently hunting for a new man or woman to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan. Or, they are weighing if they can, in fact, repeat Kovind. The president’s election and the first two years of the five-year tenure of the next President of India promise to be the most gripping political potboilers. Why? Please read on. Before March 10, the national capital Delhi was abuzz with a new political spin. The forward-looking chatter involved a reverse calculation that to beat Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, there are two critically linked pit stops. While the first was to defeat or drastically weaken BJP in the UP election in March 2022, the other was to reduce Modi’s “ease of ruling” by installing an Opposition man as President of India in July 2022. The key ingredient to the plan was an almost utopian unification o...

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In a statement signed by 13 of its members, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has condemned the decision by The strongly worded statement was signed by the BJP president J.P. Nadda, Eknath Shinde of the Shiv Sena, Conrad Sangma of the National People’s Party, Neiphiu Rio of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, Prem Singh Tamang of the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, Dushyant Chautala of the Jananayak Janata Party, Pashupati Kumar Paras of the Rashtriya Lok Janshakti Party, G.K. Vasan of the Tamil Manila Congress, Anupriya Patel of the Apna Dal (Sonelal), Edappadi K. Palaniswami of the AIADMK, Devanathan Yadav of the Makkal Kalvi Munnetra Kazhagam, Sudesh Mahto of the All Jharkhand Students Union and Zoramthanga of the Mizo National Front. President, not PM, should inaugurate new Parliament building: Rahul Gandhi Also Read | “Such flagrant disrespect towards this institution betrays not only intellectual bankruptcy but a disturbing contempt for the very essence of democracy,” reads the statement. “Over the past nine years, these Opposition parties have repeatedly shown scant regard for parliamentary procedures, disrupted sessions, staged walkouts during crucial legislations and demonstrated a lackadaisical attitude towards their parliamentary duties,” the statement further reads. Quoting instances like boycotting the special Goods and Services Tax (GST) session presided over by late President Pranab Mukherjee, to skipping Mr. Mukherjee’s investiture with the Bharat ...

Akhilesh Yadav met Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann and pledged to oppose the Delhi Services Bill in Rajya Sabha. Kejriwal, who is on a nationwide campaign to ensure the defeat of the NCCSA Bill, has already received support from the 10 opposition parties. However, he continues to wait for a response from the Congress party. By Amit Bhardwaj: "The (Delhi Services) Bill is undemocratic," Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav declared at a press conference in Lucknow on Wednesday noon. He had Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann sharing the dais with him. Akhilesh Yadav soon announced that the Samajwadi Party is going to oppose the Delhi Services Bill in the Rajya Sabha. Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal along with his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann met Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday. For the past few weeks, Kejriwal has been on a nationwide campaign. He has met a number of opposition leaders, heads of opposition parties and Kejriwal's nationwide campaign stems from the Centre's move of overturning the Supreme Court's verdict on the transfer-posting of bureaucrats in Delhi via an Ordinance. ALSO READ | In May, the Supreme Court, in a historic verdict, had given the Delhi Government complete control of the bureaucrats working with or attached to the GNCTD. It was after eight years of a legal battle that the Kejriwal government would have exercised complete authority over the sarkari babus of Delhi. However, a week ...

As the Opposition parties step up to build a united platform against the ruling BJP for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the saffron party has returned to kickstart talks with its erstwhile allies in a bid to breathe a new life into the NDA, even as the party has sought to firm up ties with its existing partners. Its rout in the recent Karnataka Assembly polls coupled with the rapidly-changing political situation seems to have forced the BJP to shed its tough stance against ex-partners that walked out of the party-led NDA on a sour note. Clearly, the party is again looking to stitch up a formidable coalition for the next general election. In a recent meeting with the BJP Chief Ministers and Deputy CMs in A number of BJP leaders have admitted that the exit of parties like the TDP, Uddhav Sena, SAD and JD(U) from the NDA over the years has given the party an image in public that it does not want to accept regional parties that are formidable forces in their respective states. Its friendly parties – the YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh or the BJD in Odisha – had not been ready for a formal alliance while remaining unwilling to be a part of the party-led government at the Centre. In Premium | According to sources, the BJP leadership has decided to keep aside its disenchantment with the SAD, which quit the NDA over the now-repealed contentious farm laws, after evaluating the The May by-election to the Jalandhar Lok Sabha seat, a traditional Congress bastion, was won by the AAP with 34.1 pe...

Synopsis The Opposition, which came together earlier this week to speak against communal violence incidents across India, has opened talks to field a consensus presidential candidate. The parties are expected to hold a meeting on presidential elections and alleged misuse of central agencies by the Centre in early May. The Opposition parties have begun discussions on fielding a common candidate to challenge BJP-led Nationalist Democratic Alliance ( The Opposition, which came together earlier this week to speak against communal violence incidents across India, has opened talks to field a consensus presidential candidate. The parties are expected to hold a meeting on presidential elections and alleged misuse of central agencies by the Centre in early May. At the same time, the Left parties have also initiated talks on a common presidential nominee. CPI leader D Raja met RJD's Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday to discuss presidential elections. Speaking to ET, Raja said, "Left parties have always been in favour of fielding an Opposition candidate against NDA's nominee. This time will be no different. We have initiated talks and our attempt will be to develop a consensus." In 2017 presidential elections, Opposition parties had come together to support former Lok Sabha Speaker and Congress veteran Meira Kumar against NDA's nominee Ram Nath Kovind. However, Kovind sailed through corering 65.65% of the votes. With the Congress' stature fast diminishing owing to the a spate of electoral lo...

Synopsis Of the estimated 10,86,431 combined value of the electoral collegium for the Presidential elections, the NDA requires a little less than 2% additional votes to make its nominee cross the half-way mark. Yet, the on-paper 'edge' the 'combined opposition' has on 'maths' may not hold the 'chemistry' test required to make 'all the opposition parties' join hands for a combined candidate against the NDA nominee. Such unity has so far not happened even in Parliament. Just as the chief election commissioner was on Thursday announcing the schedule of the Of the estimated 10,86,431 combined value of the electoral collegium for the Presidential elections, the NDA requires a little less than 2% additional votes to make its nominee cross the half-way mark. Yet, the on-paper 'edge' the 'combined opposition' has on 'maths' may not hold the 'chemistry' test required to make 'all the opposition parties' join hands for a combined candidate against the NDA nominee. Such unity has so far not happened even in After PM Modi's recent separate meetings with Odisha CM Navin Patnaik and AP CM Jagan Reddy here, the ruling front appeared optimistic of securing the backing of the BJD and YSRCP, which together have about 7% vote value in the presidential polls, even though the duo has not made their stand public, yet. Both parties had backed NDA's Kovind in the previous presidential poll (with Patnaik subsequently doing the typical balancing act by extending BJD backing to then losing oppositio...

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By Rahul Shrivastava: This is a classic example of how politics in India never sleeps and political calculators never go silent. On the evening of March 10, when the Election Commission was wrapping up the EVMs which had delivered four state verdicts in favour of the BJP and one for the AAP, a new set of complex computations were initiated with a July deadline in mind. By July 24, India has to elect a new President. In October last year, President Ram Nath Kovind (whose five-year term ends in July 2022) turned 76. If the BJP applies PM Modi’s “no appointment to a public office after 75 years” formula, it can be safely said that the Modi-Shah duo along with the RSS are currently hunting for a new man or woman to occupy Rashtrapati Bhavan. Or, they are weighing if they can, in fact, repeat Kovind. The president’s election and the first two years of the five-year tenure of the next President of India promise to be the most gripping political potboilers. Why? Please read on. Before March 10, the national capital Delhi was abuzz with a new political spin. The forward-looking chatter involved a reverse calculation that to beat Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, there are two critically linked pit stops. While the first was to defeat or drastically weaken BJP in the UP election in March 2022, the other was to reduce Modi’s “ease of ruling” by installing an Opposition man as President of India in July 2022. The key ingredient to the plan was an almost utopian unification o...

Synopsis Of the estimated 10,86,431 combined value of the electoral collegium for the Presidential elections, the NDA requires a little less than 2% additional votes to make its nominee cross the half-way mark. Yet, the on-paper 'edge' the 'combined opposition' has on 'maths' may not hold the 'chemistry' test required to make 'all the opposition parties' join hands for a combined candidate against the NDA nominee. Such unity has so far not happened even in Parliament. Just as the chief election commissioner was on Thursday announcing the schedule of the Of the estimated 10,86,431 combined value of the electoral collegium for the Presidential elections, the NDA requires a little less than 2% additional votes to make its nominee cross the half-way mark. Yet, the on-paper 'edge' the 'combined opposition' has on 'maths' may not hold the 'chemistry' test required to make 'all the opposition parties' join hands for a combined candidate against the NDA nominee. Such unity has so far not happened even in After PM Modi's recent separate meetings with Odisha CM Navin Patnaik and AP CM Jagan Reddy here, the ruling front appeared optimistic of securing the backing of the BJD and YSRCP, which together have about 7% vote value in the presidential polls, even though the duo has not made their stand public, yet. Both parties had backed NDA's Kovind in the previous presidential poll (with Patnaik subsequently doing the typical balancing act by extending BJD backing to then losing oppositio...