The Opposition parties are finding it difficult to draw up a common template for next year’s general election campaign even though there is agreement...
The campaign will start around mid-September, with a darshan of Lord Shiva at Omkareshwar temple in Khandwa district.
Rahul Gandhi will be renewing his “Shiv...
The Congress will not be declaring any Chief Ministerial candidate in Madhya Pradesh ahead of the Assembly elections there, sources close to top state...
Shehzad Poonawalla’s outburst against Congress president Rahul Gandhi did not happen overnight. Resentment was brewing in him for the past one year after being...
Jyotiraditya Scindia will be the Congress’ chief ministerial face in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, top sources in the Congress told The Sunday Guardian,...
The Congress has started back-channel talks with both Hardik Patel, the face of the Patidar reservation agitation, and Dalit leader Jignesh Mewani in poll...
Rahul Gandhi’s elevation as the Congress president is “almost certain” and an announcement to this effect may be made any time after Diwali, reliable...
Congress leader Akhilesh Prasad Singh is likely to become the next BPCC president, when organisational elections are completed for the grand old party’s Bihar...
The Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has changed the “calculation of politics” by identifying and wooing the non-dominant sub-castes in various...
Rahul Gandhi curtly turned down Nitish Kumar’s proposal that Tejashwi Yadav should be removed as Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister, when the JDU leader met...
Six Trinamool Congress MLAs in Tripura have officially committed their support to NDA’s presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, validating speculation that they are all...
As speculation continues regarding Rahul Gandhi’s likely elevation as Congress president, one of the key reasons why such an announcement has been on hold...
While incidents of violence purported by cow vigilantes hit the headlines, what has gone relatively unnoticed is an ever increasing spate of attacks on...
Uttar Pradesh has given its “wronged women” a sense of “natural justice” in the recently concluded Assembly elections, by awarding them stunning victories against...
BJP’s Mughalsarai candidate Sadhna Singh says BJP’s development plank will consolidate the votes of all castes and communities in its favour in Chandauli.
Q. One...
In Chandauli’s four constituencies—Mughalsarai, Saiyadraja, Sakaldiha and Chakia—BJP hopes to emerge as a strong contestant by consolidating the non-Yadav OBCs like the Lodh, Rajbhar...
Any mention of BJP MP Kalraj Mishra, also the Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, elicits unhappiness in the crowded vegetable market...
Not far from the old, two-storey house of Varanasi Cantonment MLA Jyotsna Srivastava in Shivaji Nagar, sewer waters overflow into the damaged roads, revealing...
Twenty-five-year old Abbas Ansari, son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, is contesting the Ghosi Assembly seat on a BSP ticket. If elected, he will perhaps...
The Dalits inhabiting the nondescript hamlets of Mau, living in clusters of thatched houses which bespeak their destitution, have nothing in common with the...
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister and seven-time MLA Durga Prasad Yadav, who is contesting again from Azamgarh Sadar, speaks to Anando Bhakto.
Q: The BSP has...
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Lok Sabha constituency, Azamgarh—also the name of the district—is inhabited by a large number of Muslims and Yadavs...
With the filing of nominations over for the seventh and final phase of Uttar Pradesh elections, it stands clear that several Samajwadi Party candidates...
On the occasion of 25 years of the establishment of India-Israeli diplomatic relations, Israel’s Ambassador to India, Daniel Carmon spoke to Anando Bhakto. Excerpts:
Q:...
Delhi’s landlords are undeterred by the Centre’s demonetisation and are continuing to accept rents in cash, an investigation done by this newspaper in national...
Congress election strategist Prashant Kishor’s desperation for an alliance in Uttar Pradesh is worsening and in the last one week he has, in information...
