Politics

News and views regarding the political landscape of India. From national political parties to regional news, we try and cut through the noise to explain how Indian politics is shaping up.

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‘I will go wherever Suvendu Adhikari goes’: Another jolt to TMC as its MLA Banasri Maity resigns, to join BJP with Adhikari

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

A string of TMC leaders submitted their resignations following the resignation of senior party leader Suvendu Adhikari.

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After Mumbai HC stayed transfer of Kanjurmarg land for metro car shed, Shiv Sena govt eyes land at BKC worth Rs 45,000 crore

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

BJP slammed Shiv Sena govt saying that more than development, Maharashtra govt is keen on stalling central govt's project

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From promising similar reforms in Punjab elections to dramatically tearing off laws: The sordid saga of AAP’s U-turns on Farm Laws

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

In its manifesto for Punjab elections in 2017, AAP had promised to amend APMC Act to allow farmers to sell outside the state

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VHP slams Rahul Gandhi for trying to defame Bajrang Dal citing already debunked report by Wall Street Journal

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

The Facebook report Rahul Gandhi had used to defame Bajrang Dal had been termed as wrong and untrue by Facebook India

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Six senior TMC leaders resign from Mamata Banerjee’s party posts in the last 72 hours

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

Six resignations, that too in a span of 72 hours must have surely come as a massive jolt to the TMC government in WB

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Kerala High Court orders Pinarayi Vijayan govt to return Rs 10 crores to Guruvayur Devaswom Board. Read details

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

Earlier in May 2020, Guruvayur Devaswom chairman KB Mohandas sparked a massive row after he admitted allocating temple money for CM's COVID-19 relief fund and during floods in 2018.

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Suvendu Adhikari tries to resign, but Bengal Assembly speaker rejects, asks him to meet on 21st December: Here is why

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

Adhikari had recently resigned from the Bengal assembly as an MLA. Speculations are rife that he may join the BJP soon.

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BJP leader claims threat to life from ex father-in-law TMC MP Kalyan Bannerji, locked in Covid isolation ward with patients

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

Kabir Shankar Bose was confined to a Covid isolation ward with other patients, thereby, threatening his life.

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Bengal: BJP writes to ECI seeking deployment of female CPF personnel to verify identity of Burkha-clad voters

OpIndia Staff - 18 December, 2020

The BJP pointed out that there has been a 10% rise in the number of voters in the ward No. 66 of the Kasba Vidhan Sabha constituency, despite no 'new township or settlement'.

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