The Centre’s decision comes days after the Supreme Court adjourned the hearing of the plea filed by Wangchuk’s wife, Gitanjali J Angmo, challenging his detention under the NSA. A bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and P B Varale is set to hear the matter on March 17. The Court made it clear that it will…
Actor Vijay launched the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) promising to challenge the DMK, the AIADMK, and the BJP as an independent force. But just before the elections, an online meeting on Friday convened by party organiser Bussy Anand to appoint constituency coordinators turned into an unexpected reality check: many districts reported their inability to find…
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to address a major rally in Moga on Saturday as part of the BJP’s outreach in Punjab ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections. But the BJP has found itself in the ruling Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) crosshairs with its “badlaav (change)” themed rally on Saturday, which echoes the…
The Congress’s 2024 candidate in Gujarat’s Surat parliamentary constituency, Nilesh Kumbhani, whose “faulty” nomination had given the BJP its first-ever uncontested win in the Lok Sabha polls, is now back in the news. Recently, senior state BJP leader and Union Jal Shakti Minister C R Patil visited Kumbhani’s factory at Rajula in Amreli district along with several…
With voting for Haryana’s two Rajya Sabha seats scheduled on Monday, the principal Opposition Congress has corralled its MLAs and moved them out of the state in an attempt to prevent cross-voting or defections. The party is said to be keen not to repeat “mistakes” that cost it crucial Upper House seats in recent years….
With the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh set for early next year, the Congress has staked a claim on Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder Kanshi Ram’s legacy. Two days before the party’s OBC and Scheduled Caste (SC) departments observe Kanshi Ram’s birth anniversary as “Samajik Parivartan Diwas”, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi addressed a programme…
At a time when she and her party are facing blowback following President Droupadi Murmu’s recent remarks, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced that the state government intends to set up five new cultural and development boards for various Adivasi, backward class, and Dalit communities. The boards…
(As Tamil Nadu gears up for the Assembly polls, every week, Arun Janardhanan decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) In 1963, when the Congress was losing its organisational vitality, K Kamaraj, then the party’s national president, proposed what came to be known as the Kamaraj Plan. The idea was…
While granting bail to Shabir Ahmed Shah, the leader of the Jammu Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (JKDFP), in an alleged terror funding case Thursday, the Supreme Court took note of his prolonged incarceration. While the Court was talking of the past eight years Shah has been imprisoned, the founder of the JKDFP, one of the…
The Kerala High Court on Thursday disqualified prominent Hindu community leader Vellappally Natesan and his son Thushar Vellappally as directors of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP Yogam). A Bench of Justice T R Ravi issued the order after hearing a batch of petitions challenging the continuation of the Natesan family at the helm…