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Sharad Pawar game: Grooming politicians from within family and facing bitter consequences
Mumbai: Before he passed away, Sharad Pawar’s elder brother Anantrao Pawar had entrusted his son Ajit Pawar to his sibling and said, “Look after him well.” Sharad Pawar took upon himself to…
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Maharashtra: Politicians of all shades are jumping from one party to another with no qualms
Mumbai: Whatever is happening in Maharashtra in the name of electoral politics is unprecedented. After the 2003 split into two mainline parties, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena, what seems…
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Babu and Stalin should read this: Bearing more children means moving backwards
Two chief ministers, N Chandrababu Naidu and M K Stalin, respectively of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Naidu must reconsider their advocacy of growing their populations. Naidu has asked that couples should have…
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Maharashtra polls: 4 major parties vie for prestigious Shivaji Park for meeting on Nov 17
Mumbai: Shivaji Park, a large ground in South Central Mumbai – Dadar to those who know the metropolis – is a much-coveted public ground now. As many as four political parties have…
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Maharashtra polls: Raj Thackeray punctures promises being made by major political outfits.
In competitive politics which is at its sharpest, politicians seldom tell the people that what is expected is not possible. They promise the moon when on the stump but seldom deliver. It…
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Maharashtra polls: Unfolding of unusual contours
Two political parties that split just over two years ago, the Shiv Sena and the Nationalist Congress Party, are fighting the splinter group and they see it as an existential battle. It…
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Uddhav wants a CM’s face announced; partners wary
Here is an anecdote from 1999 which has relevance today. The Congress and the then united Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) had contested the Maharashtra Assembly polls against each other in a triangular…
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INDIA is not in tatters; wait for the outcome of Maharashtra elections
The response by several political parties to the Congress losing Haryana is not in the least surprising. It just happened that this Haryana development came the way of other political parties who…
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Delhi Durbar: The house for a Chief Minister–A curious case Kejriwal
During his entire tenure, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik had lived in his ancestral home. Now as leader of Opposition, he continues to stay there. He was just not bothered to ask…
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STATUE BUILDING IN A HURRY
Within a month of its collapse, the Maharashtra Government has initiated a tendering process to build a new statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji on the Rajkot Fort in south Konkan coast and it…
- Opinions
Kejriwal is AAP, AAP is him
It is unusual in the political history of India that a chief minister of a state can remain without a portfolio but run the state by his superintendence, leaving the nitty-gritties to…
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AAP in Haryana- Hopes revive, spirits start soaring with Kejriwal release
Now that its leader-in-chief, Arvind Kejriwal is out of jail on bail, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) spirits have been lifted. It, however, is hard to quantify to what extent the party…
