I.N.D.I.A Vs BHARAT, Howzat? Indian Democracy seems like a paradox. The first paradox is that we got it in darkness of the midnight. Pandit Nehru in his first Independence Day speech, in great flourish and rhetoric, declared that ‘when the whole world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.’ I had read that Napoleon…
UPA Vs NDA meet today
July 18, 2023New Delhi/Bengaluru: The race is heating up as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced the confirmation of 38 National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners for a meeting in New Delhi today. This meeting coincides with a gathering of 26 like-minded Opposition parties in Bengaluru, who are strategising for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The…
Sonia Gandhi consoles kin over phone
March 11, 2023Mysore/Mysuru: Congress supremo Sonia Gandhi consoled the family members of KPCC Working President R. Dhruvanarayan this morning. Sonia Gandhi spoke to Dhruvanarayan’s younger son Dheeran over phone and expressed her condolences over the death of his father. Suttur Seer Sri Shivarathri Deshikendra Swamiji expressed shock over the death of Dhruvanarayan. The seer described Dhruvanarayan as…
Sonia Gandhi hospitalised
January 5, 2023New Delhi: Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here on Wednesday, a statement said. “Sonia Gandhi, Chairperson, UPA, has been admitted to our hospital today. She has been admitted in the Department of Chest Medicine under the care of Dr. Arup Basu and his team,” Dr. Ajay Swaroop, Chairman…
Mr. Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress President, I presume?
October 22, 2022Congratulations to our dear Kannadiga Sri Mallikarjun Kharge, the veteran Congressman, on his being elected as the 98th President of the Indian National Congress (INC) on October 19, 2022. By the way, the INC was founded by an english man by name Allan Octavian Hume and the first President of INC was Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee…
Congress must choose: Gandhis or Democracy
October 22, 2022India desperately needs a strong Opposition party. Sadly, Congress refuses to take that place. Its members always choose the Gandhi family’s wishes over their voters’. On Wednesday (Oct.19), 80-year-old M. Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress party’s ‘consensus candidate’, beat 66-year-old Shashi Tharoor to be the new non-Gandhi Congress Party President in 27 years. Only the old…
Mallikarjun Kharge elected as new Congress Chief
October 20, 2022To assume office on Oct.2 New Delhi: Amid the daunting task of reversing its electoral slide which began with the defeat in the 2014 LS polls, the Congress on Wednesday elected veteran Party leader from Karnataka Mallikarjun Kharge, a first from non-Gandhi family, to head the 137-year-old party in 22 years. Kharge succeeds long-time Party…
Kharge sweeps AICC President poll
October 19, 2022Shashi Tharoor gets 1,072 votes out of 9,385 New Delhi: Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge swept the AICC (All India Congress Committee) Presidential polls this morning, paving the way for him to become the Congress’ first non-Gandhi President in over two decades. Kharge will replace interim Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, who has been occupying the post…
Will ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ by Sonia and Rahul Gandhi reverse the fortune of Congress in Mandya district?
October 14, 2022Mandya: Though the Congress party leaders and workers are buoyed by the success of the ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ led by Rahul Gandhi and also joined by AICC President Sonia Gandhi, there is an intense discussion going on in political circles whether the success of the Yatra can revive the fortunes of the Congress party…
Sonia Gandhi joins Bharat Jodo Yatra
October 6, 2022Pandavapura: AICC Acting President Sonia Gandhi joined the Congress Party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra led by her son Rahul Gandhi in Pandavapura taluk as the Yatra resumed in Karnataka this morning after a two-day break on account of Dasara festivities. Today is the Yatra’s fifth day of the Karnataka leg. The Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari…
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