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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Law Minister for Law and Justice. He said that the Aadhaar verdict would enhance good governance and empower the poor and strengthen their voice.

Parentage claims

As the BJP and the Congress try to establish that the Aadhaar verdict is a vindication of their role in the project, the principled opposition to the

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Muslims offering prayers in the mosque at Feroz Shah Kotla fort in New Delhi on August 22.

A saffron twist

The Sangh Parivar interprets the Supreme Court’s verdict declining to revisit its 1994 observations about the place of mosques in Islam as a major ste

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Workers and farmers at the Mazdoor Kisan Sangharsh Rally in New Delhi on September 5.

Downward spiral

The distress in the economy bodes ill for the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre, especially at a time when it finds its “clean” image ta

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A protest in Mumbai on September 5 against the arrest of lawyers and social activists in August.

Offensive strategy

The arrests of five social activists by the Pune Police show that the Sangh Parivar is aggressively pushing ahead with the “nationalism versus seditio

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Atal Bihari Vajpayee at his residence in New Delhi.

Beyond the mask

Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee (1924-2018), who was often described as brilliantly multifaceted, was never really free of the sectarian a

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as Congress president Rahul Gandhi walks away after hugging him in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the no-confidence motion in Parliament on July 20.

Signs of unease

The events before the no-confidence debate and after it show how the BJP is concerned about the cracks appearing in its alliance in the run-up to the

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Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BJP president Amit Shah before a breakfast meeting in Patna on July 12.

Losing the plot?

The BJP’s realpolitik considerations in Bihar and its manoeuvres in the Rajya Sabha ahead of the monsoon session of Parliament mark a clear retreat f

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The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir in charge, Ram Madhav (right), and Deputy Chief Minister in the alliance government, Kavinder Gupta, addressing a press conference in New Delhi on June 19, where the decision to pull out of the coalition with the Peoples Democratic Party was announced.

The game plan

The Sangh Parivar’s devious pattern of political moves ahead of elections, marked by divisive propaganda aimed at communal polarisation, comes to the

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A protest march in Mumbai on May 9.

There is method in the madness

Violence against Muslims and Christians has risen since the BJP came to power in 2014, and the pattern and modus operandi of the attacks reveal a sys

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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah during BJP Election committee meeting at BJP Headquarters in New Delhi on Sunday. PTI Photo by Vijay Verma (PTI4_8_2018_000157B)

Stunning blowback

The BJP’s fiasco in Karnataka has not only diminished some of the aura around Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, but also sho

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HYDERABAD: TELANGANA: 22/04/2018: CPI-M General Secretary Sitaram Yechury participating tha rally at Malkpet in Hyderabad on Saturday. The CPI-M unanimously re-elected Sitaram Yechury as its General Secretary for another three years. Photo: G. Ramakrishna

'A maturation of inner-party democracy'

Interview with Sitaram Yechury, general secretary, Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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New Delhi: Congress leaders Kapil Sibal and Ghulam Nabi Azad arrive to address a press conference after opposition parties submitted a notice to the Vice President and Rajya Sabha Chairperson Venkaiah Naidu to initiate impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, in New Delhi on Friday. PTI Photo by Kamal Singh(PTI4_20_2018_000078B)

Ominous signs

Recent developments concerning the judiciary, marked by controversial confrontations with the executive, are reminiscent of events that resulted in th

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