Badar Bashir, Author at The Sunday Guardian Live

Kharge tells Karnataka Congress leaders to start poll preparations

NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Karnataka Assembly elections, which will be held early next year, Mallikarjun Kharge, the new AICC president, has conveyed to...

BJP hoping for a big win in Rajasthan

Ahead of Assembly elections in Rajasthan, the BJP has started to deep-diagnose the deficiencies in the working of its cadre in the state. According...

Samajwadi Party to focus on national politics

NEW DELHI: Keeping in view the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Samajwadi Party (SP), the main opposition party in Uttar Pradesh, is planning to...

Karnataka Congress may see the rise of a ‘Kharge faction’

Speculation is that there could be a third group emerging within the Karnataka unit, besides those of D.K. Shivakumar and Siddaramaiah. NEW DELHI: With a...

Will PAGD parties contest elections separately?

NEW DELHI: The visit to Jammu and Kashmir by Amit Shah recently had created a buzz among political observers that the Assembly elections in...

Congress to give tickets to over 40% first-timers in Gujarat

‘Apart from a few, almost all sitting MLAs will get tickets to contest the Assembly polls’. NEW DELHI: The Congress in Gujarat has completed the...

Systematic problem in media at multiple levels: Kartikeya Sharma

New Delhi: The first edition of the event, focused on the theme ‘Future of News’ and to realise the opportunities and challenges associated with...

Ex-Vice President Venkaiah Naidu launches the biggest news event

New Delhi: The largest and most democratic industry body of top pan-India television news organisations and digital publishers, the News Broadcasters Federation (NBF) National...

Will Pilot be back as Rajasthan Pradesh president?

A source close to the top leadership in the state suggested that a change in the state unit president is on the cards. NEW DELHI:...

KCR eyes neighbouring states for 2024 poll battle

KCR is believed to have identified Karnataka, Maharashtra as regions that could strengthen his national ambitions. NEW DELHI: Though the Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) is...

Ahead of polls, AAP woos minorities in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: With the Gujarat Assembly polls a couple of months away, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has increased its space in the state...

Bad advisors ‘destroying’ Congress in Uttar Pradesh

NEW DELHI: After a long wait, the Congress has appointed its state head and regional heads to lead its cadre in Uttar Pradesh. However,...

Congress set to declare more than 50 candidates in Gujarat

During the 2017 Assembly polls, Gujarat Congress received over 1,200 applications for 182 seats. NEW DELHI: The Congress in Gujarat has completed the screening process...

Delhi Congress woos Dalits, minorities for MCD polls

‘Congress has eroded in a way that it is very difficult for the party to make a comeback’. NEW DELHI: The Congress in Delhi is...

Does Gehlot’s ‘plot’ signal his coming downfall in Congress?

NEW DELHI: When Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot sensed that the Gandhis are adamant on placing Sachin Pilot, his bitter adversary, as the CM...

‘Kishor to focus on his own political formation’

Kishor, sources said, has refused to be part of any Opposition preparations for 2024 polls. NEW DELHI: Since the politics in Bihar heated up after...

AAP will focus on Gujarat, not so much on HP

Party has been unable to find suitable leaders in Himachal to take on BJP and Congress candidates in their Assembly seats. NEW DELHI: The Aam...

‘TRS, Congress alliance possible for LS polls’

At a recent meet, Amit Shah had warned the BJP cadre of TRS warming up to Congress before the LS polls. NEW DELHI: Though the...

AAP to focus on 125 seats in Lok Sabha polls‘

‘The slogan Make India no 1, launched recently, has been released by the party in view of the general elections’. NEW DELHI: With an aim...

‘Congress knew about Goa defections, couldn’t do much to stop MLAs’

‘Goa president Amit Patkar did talk to the MLAs, what more could he have done?’ NEW DELHI: It was widely speculated before the elections that...

Assam Congress fears exodus of leaders to BJP

‘The state leadership has identified those MLAs hobnobbing with the BJP, but is unable to act against them’. NEW DELHI: The Congress in Assam is...

Congress facing leadership crisis in Uttar Pradesh

There has been an exodus of established and ground level leaders in the past two years, and this has impacted the party. NEW DELHI: The...

KCR preparing for state, national elections

NEW DELHI: Almost a year ahead of Assembly elections in Telangana, state Chief Minister and Telangana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS) supremo, K. Chandrashekhar Rao told...

Congress working on plan to retake seats lost in 2019 general elections

NEW DELHI: The Congress is trying to reclaim its “lost glory” through its “Bharat Jodo Yatra” from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, covering 12 states in...

Azad’s exit leaves J&K Congress in tatters

Congress sees a flurry of exits with members joining the Azad camp. NEW DELHI: After veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad left the Congress last week,...

G-23 of the congress is active: P.J. Kurien

‘Too much expectation from the group was unrealistic.’ NEW DELHI: In August 2020, around two dozen Congress leaders came together and wrote a letter to...

Isudhan Gadhvi may be AAP’s Gujarat CM face, shows party survey

The internal survey shows that Isudhan Gadhvi has around 70% support to be the CM face of AAP. NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...

AAP not keen on announcing Gujarat CM face early

Party believes that an early decision on the same could impact its electoral prospects. New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), banking on its Punjab...

The Azad-Congress duel comes to an end

Rahul Gandhi’s decision to appoint Vikar Rasool Wani directly created a deep divide. New Delhi: When the Jammu and Kashmir Congress unit was recently reconstituted,...

TRS wary of BJP ahead of Munugode bypoll

TRS leaders believe that the bypoll could be bipolar between BJP and TRS, sending the Congress on the back foot. New Delhi: After Congress MLA...

AAP plans to turn BJP’s ‘revdi culture’ attack into election issue

New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is planning to turn around the “revdi culture” attack by the BJP into an electoral issue. AAP...

Tough for J&K Congress chief to sort out mess

Vikar Rasool Wani will find it hard to strike a balance and disentangle the party from the mess it finds itself in. New Delhi: Though...

Delhi Congress may get a new chief soon

New Delhi: The Congress in Delhi is seen as an inactive force, with its own party leaders blaming it of not being able to...

Delay in CUET hits students’ wider academic plans

NEW DELHI: The delay due to the extension by another eight days of the CUET-UG schedule following examination cancellation at several centres last week...

J&K parties in hibernation After EC move on poll rolls

Parties lament that elections won’t happen this year too. NEW DELHI: After the extension of deadline for the final publication of electoral rolls in Jammu...

Congress yet to decide on UP state unit head

A decision will be taken within two months, a Congress leader said. NEW DELHI: After the poll debacle in Uttar Pradesh early this year, and...

Congress trying to rework caste arithmetic after power shift in Bihar

Party to keep appointments in seven states pending till the AICC president is elected. NEW DELHI: With the Congress emerging as a minor alliance partner...

Afghan Sikh relates tales of horror back home

New Delhi: On the intervening night of Sunday and Monday last week, at 3o’clock, some men lined up to enter a house in Afghanistan when...

Congress-JMM opt for image makeover in Jharkhand

Move comes after three Jharkhand Congress MLAs were caught in West Bengal carrying Rs 50 lakh. New Delhi: After three MLAs of Jharkhand Congress were...

People of Gujarat are fed up with both BJP and Congress: AAP

AAP’s Indranil Rajguru says the party will do well in the Assembly polls. In June this year, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had announced a...

A guarantee a week is AAP’s way to be in the public eye in Gujarat

New Delhi: The AAP in Gujarat is trying a different strategy in Gujarat to create a space between the two major national parties, Congress...

Traders oppose food hub in main Chandni Chowk market

‘Main Chandni Chowk does not have sufficient space to house cloud kitchens and food trucks’. New Delhi: As one of Delhi’s largest wholesale market, Chandni...

All JMM MLAs, MPs in touch with us: Deepak Prakash

The opposition BJP in Jharkhand has been preparing on multiple fronts and increasing its political base in the tribal areas. New Delhi: The alliance between...

Shiv Sena (Uddhav) worried about losing party name, symbol

New Delhi: This week, Shiv Sena’s 12 out of 19 Lok Sabha members switched to the breakaway faction led by Eknath Shinde that already...

‘Toy imports to drop further by over 10% by 2025’

The toy market in India has seen exponential growth in recent years. Imports fell by around 70% and India’s toy export market increased by...

‘RBI’s Vostro account will have long-term benefits’

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India move to start “Vostro account” to facilitate global trade in rupee is an initiative towards internationalising the...

Congress to form national panel after intra-party polls

‘The panel’s major role would be to form strategies for 2024 general elections’. New Delhi: The Congress is going to form a new committee after...

AAP strengthens itself to woo voters in Gujarat

‘The youth is getting attracted towards AAP, women are also getting attracted’. New Delhi: After the victory in Punjab, the AAP is focusing on the...

‘AAP is emerging as a third front in Himachal Pradesh’

That’s what AAP leaders believe as 50% door-to-door campaign has been completed in the state. New Delhi: In a state where Assembly elections are bipolar...

State PCC chiefs’ selection will remain pending until AICC elections

State unit presidents will be hand-picked by the new AICC president. New Delhi: As the Congress has kept pending the appointments and replacement of Pradesh...

ISLAM: Tazkiya and modesty

Amid Bangla tension, TMC woos both Hindus and Muslims

Congress should also focus on massacre of Dalits during own rule

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