Rahul Gandhi and India Bloc march to the Supreme Court exposes a troubling question: why must an entire city pay the price when citizens seek a peaceful march?Continue Reading
Invoking Nehru’s historic midnight address, the Leader of the Opposition says the fight over electoral integrity is far bigger than one Election Commissioner. “This is something worth fighting for, and worth dying for,” he declares.Continue Reading
Alarming allegations of Bajrang Dal and VHP supporters mobilising towards Jantar Mantar, coupled with video messages threatening to attack protesters ahead of the October 10 demonstration, have raised a disturbing question: Is this true? What is happening on ground?Continue Reading
Something unusual is happening on the streets of India. It began as a battle over electoral rolls, the Election Commission and the Special Intensive Revision, or SIR. But from Bengaluru’s Freedom Park to the roads around Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, the protests are beginning to acquire a character that goes beyond political parties and Parliament.Continue Reading
At a moment when Rahul Gandhi and the Opposition are on the streets demanding answers from the Election Commission, veteran BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi has invoked the very foundations on which that demand rests: fair elections, accountable government, transparent institutions and the supremacy of the Constitution. Senior BJP leaderContinue Reading
It began as a few seconds of protest footage. Rahul Gandhi standing on a Delhi Police barricade, surrounded by opposition MPs and protesters, the Tricolour in his hand, refusing to be swallowed by the police cordon. Then came the music. A reel was set to “I’m Unstoppable”, carrying the line:Continue Reading
Gandhi Jayanti is witnessing an unusual political confrontation across two of India’s biggest cities, with Delhi and Mumbai becoming centres of protest over Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Continue Reading
Rahul Gandhi walked into the room with a message that was blunt, sweeping and deliberately confrontational: he said he was “100 per cent sure” that elections in India were being rigged.Continue Reading
Indian voting is multi-dimensional. A voter can be angry about jobs, inflation, exam leaks or a local collapse and still spring a surprise in the last moment, or someone else springs a surprise in the ninth hour!Continue Reading
A decade after Rahul Gandhi’s “Pay to PM” jibe during the demonetisation debate, Congress has revived the slogan in a fresh political attack over charges on high-value UPI merchant payments.Continue Reading
