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.

News Reports

Republic TV approaches NHRC to demand the release of journalists detained by Maharashtra Police

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2020

Republic TV has also stated that they will approach the Bombay HC, as the Maha Police have been coercing their journalist to reveal his sources.

News Reports

Mumbai police go all the way to Kolkata to arrest an alleged Kangana Ranaut fan for ‘threatening’ Sanjay Raut

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2020

The man from Tollygunge, Kolkata had allegedly threatened Sanjay Raut of 'dire consequences' for harassing Kangana Ranaut.

News Reports

Congress leader Ajay Maken calls the Supreme Court order directing removal of slums in Delhi as inhuman, files petition

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2020

Ajay Maken movese Supreme Court challenging the court's order of removing 48,000 slum clusters along railway tracks in Delhi

Opinions

How UPA era environmental laws just cost us 900 km strategic road near China border

Abhishek Banerjee - 11 September, 2020

The Center had requested for a width of at least seven meters so that military vehicles could ply on the road. The request was denied. The planned two-lane highway is now down to a single lane.

News Reports

Kangana Ranaut questions Sonia Gandhi’s silence over how her government in Maharashtra is hounding a woman

OpIndia Staff - 11 September, 2020

Kangana questions Sonia Gandhi's silence on the 'mockery of law and order' in Maharashtra over the MVA govt's continued harassment of the actress.

News Reports

‘We have been Congress supporters, but Amit Shah helped us’: Kangana’s mother Asha Ranaut speaks up after her daughter was hounded

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2020

Despite being Congress supporters, my daughter did not receives any support from them, said Kangana's mother Asha Ranaut

News Reports

Kejriwal takes on Goa: Spends lakhs in COVID-19 advertising and ‘opinion surveys’ in Goa amid rising coronavirus cases in Delhi

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2020

The Aam Aadmi Party campaign in Goa comes at a time when coronavirus cases in Delhi has seen a rise, leading to speculations that the national capital was expecting a second wave of the pandemic.

OpIndia Explains

If Congress had come back to power, delimitation of seats with Muslim population would have been a reality, thanks to Zakat Foundation: Details

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2020

When Congress was in power in 2013, the Zakat Foundation had met the then PM, Manmohan Singh and demanded that seats where Muslims form a large population be 'delimited'

News Reports

Kejriwal breaks yet another promise: 17 Delhi Police cops lost their lives in coronavirus duty, no compensation received as promised

OpIndia Staff - 10 September, 2020

In April this year, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had announced Rs 1 crore compensation to those coronavirus warriors who lost their lives in line of duty while fighting COVID-19.

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