Are Muslims under-represented in UP? -
AK Verma, Indian Express
When Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party took over the reins of government in Uttar Pradesh, it boasted of heavy Muslim support, discomfiting the outgoing BSP. Sixty nine Muslims from various parties were elected to the UP assembly. Yet, questions have often been raised about the inadequacy of Muslim representation in UP politics.
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Cricket: Decoding the diabolical game -
Sandeep Bamzai, Mail Today
The satraps who run the Indian cricket board remain oblivious to the issue of accountability. Cricket board presidents have been known to enjoy power by virtue of controlling one of the most lucrative sport in the world. The operative word remains CONTROL, after all that is part of the BCCI's own DNA – Board of Control for Cricket In India. The cricket board has failed to keep itself in sync with changing times, it remains steadfast to the idea of being opaque and insular. This insularity drives it to build a moat around it at all times.
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Londonistan: In an imaginary homeland, the English jihad rises -
Praveen Swami, FirstPost
It takes a special kind of hate to do what she did: for the slight young woman to walk into the office of a man she had never met; to reach out to shake his hand; to stab him in the abdomen; to pull out the knife, her hands covered in blood, her victim screaming; to dig it in again. “A woman has shown to the ummah’s men the path of jihad,” the Al Qaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki’s magazine Inspire exulted after Roshanara Choudhry’s stabbed Member of Parliament Stephen Timms...
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From Bofors to 2G, the same fate -
Arun Kumar, Hindu
The current political situation brings back memories of 1989. The Prime Minister then was under a cloud in the Bofors scam. Many of his close associates like Lalit Suri and Ajitabh Bachchan were accused of wrong-doing. Today, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and many around him are under a cloud. The Congress president has been weakened by allegations against her son-in-law. The Joint Parliamentary Committee report on Bofors was rejected by the Opposition. It resigned en masse from Parliament forcing national elections.
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Strategic pincer & Trojan horses -
Bharat Karnad, Asian Age
Consider the simplified timeline: on May 4, when the armed intrusion by Chinese People’s Liberation Army in the Depsang Bulge was on-going, the Indian government in an inspired fit announced the extension of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s scheduled visit to Japan by a day (May 27-29). Literally a day later, Beijing, after treating India’s military capability with near contempt — otherwise it wouldn’t have dared risk the intrusion in the first place — agreed to a pullback. It was China’s calculations of a prospective Indo-Japanese...
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A lost decade -
Mint
Truth be told, the United Progressive Alliance’s (UPA’s) failures were foretold. The coalition—led by the Congress party—enters a decade in power this week. It is a happy occasion for the UPA but it isn’t for India. Growth has been dented badly and the country’s international prospects have dimmed considerably in the past years. This is no reason for cheer. Any government’s success depends largely on its electoral appeal. The latter is a compound of short-term, electorally-geared, policy steps...
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Stop appeasing the dragon -
Pravin Sawhney, Pioneer
The biggest shortcoming of all treaties signed with China since 1976 has been the absence of military advice in border policy-making. Even during the recent Ladakh crisis, the Army Chief was called only on the 19th day to give a briefing. That the Chinese gamble had paid off could be the reason for Premier Li Keqiang’s broad smile which flashed in all photographs during his recent meetings with Indian leaders. Less than a month before Mr Li was to leave for his first destination abroad (India)...
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With Modi as leader, BJP will sweep UP in LS polls: LensOnNews survey -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH NARENDRA MODI moving to the forefront of national politics and receiving accolades for every speech and every public appearance that he makes, it’s only a question of time before the BJP announces that it will fight the next Lok Sabha polls under his leadership as its PM candidate. Possibly the announcement will come as early as at the two-day national executive meet at Goa on June 8-9. Against this backdrop, a poll has been conducted by the popular news...
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Three polls, one message: No alternative to Modi for BJP -
R Jagannathan, FirstPost
Three opinion polls this week on the national political mood have three simple messages embedded in them – two for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and another for the Congress. The polls – one by AC Nielsen for ABP News, another by C-Voter for Headlines Today, and a third by GFK for CNN-IBN – clearly indicate that the Congress is slipping, and slipping badly, in urban India, and possibly all over the country too. It is likely to crash to one of its worst defeats in history.
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Manmohan should be replaced as PM, UPA has lost credibility: Poll -
CNN-IBN
As Congress-led United Progressive Alliance completes four years in office on May 22, what is the mood in urban India? In a 12-city poll conducted by CNN-IBN in age group of 18 years or more, the verdict is emphatic and overwhelmingly against the current regime. The poll reveals that UPA government has lost credibility and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh no longer enjoys confidence of urban India.
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Politician families in business: What aided their meteoric rise -
John Samuel Raja D, Economic Times
Companies run by family members of some politicians are like every other company. And they are not, as these four practices that run through their businesses and have aided their meteoric rise show. Talk about business growth and opportunity. In the last five years, Theon Pharmaceuticals, controlled by the immediate family of former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal, has increased in size from Rs 15 crore to Rs 152 crore.
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