Goa Congress MLA likens Narendra Modi to Indira Gandhi

The Modi wave has blotched the Congress party’s copybook. For the first time since the Lok Sabha was constituted in 1952, the party has failed to secure enough seats to be designated as a parliamentary party, notes A Surya Prakash. Ever since the Congress Party’s crushing defeat in the recent Lok Sabha election, many acolytes of the Nehru-Gandhi family and Congress sympathisers are bemoaning the fact that the leader of this party, which has just 44 seats, cannot be designated leader ...

New Delhi : For years, almost every government programme was named after a member of the Nehru-Gandhi family. But the NDA’s first budget has finally recognized other leaders by unveiling four big schemes named after stalwarts outside the first family of ...

n’t get, we will see,” Sonia said. She added, “We are the single largest party and we have a pre-poll alliance. Hence, we are entitled to get the post of Leader of Opposition in LS.” Her remarks on the issue came just a day ...

As the news broke on Congress' appointment of former Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge as the leader of the party in Lok Sabha , I didn’t know what the perfect reaction to this piece of information was? Shall we laugh at the Gandhi family-controlled ...

Official prediction of a weak monsoon could make the government’s job of taming food inflation — particularly in pulses, oilseed, coarse cereals and vegetables — more difficult. The rate of food inflation, as measured by the consumer price index, rose to 9.66 per cent in April from 9.10 per cent in March.“The highest impact could be on oilseed, pulses and horticulture. The government has comfortable rice and wheat stocks. Also, much of Punjab and Haryana has ...

Patil recounts, “I was in Delhi for the National Awards when a gentleman came to me and told me his family’s story, he told me how they were affected by the violence when he was just seven years old. When I heard about the ordeal they ...

Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) contends the case ‘touches and concerns’ US and the group has ‘institutional standing’ to seek declaratory judgment on November 1984 violence against the Sikh community. US District Court Judge Robert ...

Leading think tank discusses a likely Narendra Modi government and America’s engagement with the man US once scorned. Aziz Haniffa reports Since Narendra Modi is not obligated to anybody, including his party, he would do to the Bharatiya Janata Party ‘what Indira Gandhi did to the Congress,’ an Indian American expert has predicted. At a continuing series of discussions on India Decides 2014: Assessing the Election and Beyond organised by the Carnegie Endowment for ...

Sonia Gandhi told a leading news channel that she was absolutely serious about writing a book which will reveal the truth. Natwar Singh, who has used terms like “authoritarian" and "Machiavellian” in his autobiography for Sonia Gandhi, in an ...