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

AIMIM MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi repeats his ’15-minutes’ hate speech, says RSS yet to recover from his 2012 speech

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2019

Akbaruddin Owaisi resorted to hate speech after he repeated his '15 minutes' infamous speech against Hindus which he had made in 2012.

Opinions

Imran Khan says Pulwama was an ‘indigenous job’: Did Indian ‘liberals’ and Congress help him come up with that delusion?

Shashank Bharadwaj - 24 July, 2019

Interestingly, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to have taken the mantle from Indian liberals and Indian opposition parties, which had also coincidentally stuck to similar rhetorics of Pulwama being an inside job .

Politics

Congress MLA had ordered 2000 kgs of namkeen before 2017 Gujarat assembly elections, didn’t pay the shopkeeper after party lost

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2019

The shopkeeper has threatened to sit on a fast outside the Congress MLA's house as a mark of protest till he clears his dues.

Politics

No plan to give unemployment allowances: Kamal Nath government’s U-turn on election promise

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2019

Kamal Nath made the announcement as a reply to Congress MLA Munnalal Goyal's question in the assembly yesterday.

Politics

Imran Khan says Pulwama was an ‘indigenous thing’ by a Kashmiri ‘boy’ who was radicalised by the ‘brutality of security forces’

OpIndia Staff - 24 July, 2019

Imran Khan again shrugs off the responsibility of the terror organisation that thrive on the Pakistani soil.

News Reports

Karnataka Congress-JDS coalition government collapses after it fails to get trust vote passed in Assembly

OpIndia Staff - 23 July, 2019

After days of drama, CM Kumaraswamy finally moved the trust vote today that failed to pass in the Assembly. As a result, the Karnataka government has officially collapsed

News Reports