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

Karnataka: Mangaluru Police arrests one Moindeen Hameez for spreading communal hatred on social media, four booked

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2019

Mangaluru Cyber Crime Police has arrested one Moindeen Hameez for allegedly spreading communal hatred through inciting messages.

Opinions

Nothing Defeats like Defeat: Liberals thought they were using Islamic extremism to retain power, they received a rude shock

K Bhattacharjee - 31 December, 2019

In the aftermath of a defeat, people are prone to making mistakes that could trap them in a vicious cycle of defeat. A similar pattern is unfolding before our eyes with the anti-CAA protests

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Shaheen Bagh protests: Deep dive into how JNU ‘student’ and The Wire columnist Sharjeel Imam went from ‘let us burn Constitution’ to ‘saving it’

OpIndia Staff - 31 December, 2019

Shaheen Bagh protests are widely circulated as 'organic' protests in a bid to 'save the constitution'

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‘I expected but no Muslims doing it’: Tamil Congress politician and writer Nellai Kannan incites Muslims to kill Amit Shah at rally of Islamist...

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2019

Nellai Kannan hinted that he expected Muslims to kill Home Minister Amit Shah for implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act

Politics

Career protestor Shehla Rashid busts mainstream media propaganda, claims liberals are trying to hijack Muslim struggle against CAA

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2019

Shehla Rashid has called out liberal charade of secularising the anti-CAA protests, claiming that movement is inherently Muslim in nature and is sustained by Muslims.

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Maharashtra: Shiv Sena goons assault govt employee for calling Uddhav Thackeray ‘Nalayak’ in a Facebook post

OpIndia Staff - 30 December, 2019

This brazen incident by Shiv Sena goons in Maharashtra is the second such incident in a span of a week

Opinions

The Art of Ruling: The Modi-Shah Doctrine of Governance and how the duo brought the Media and Mobs to kneel in 2019

K Bhattacharjee - 30 December, 2019

The Liberal Conception of the Indian State was thrown into the garbage dump by Modi and Shah in 2019 and Hindutva entrenched itself firmly in the corridors of power.

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