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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Ex-DRDO chief clarifies on former NSA’s statement, says Congress govt neither responded, nor gave financial assistance for ASAT programme

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2019

VK Saraswat says he had made an informal presentation to the ex-NSA but had received only silence over the ASAT programme.

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Tamil Nadu: IT raids on Congress ally DMK leader, huge cash recovered allegedly belongs to DMK treasurer

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2019

In a midnight operation, Income Tax (IT) department officials along with the Election Commission officials carried out a raid on the premises of senior leader Duraimurugan of the DMK, the Congress party ally in Tamil Nadu.

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Shashi Tharoor welcomes Rahul Gandhi to Wayanad, Twitterati join him

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2019

Scared of losing from Amethi, Rahul Gandhi has decided to contest from Wayanad where ‘Hindus are a minority’

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RLD leader threatens to demolish BJP office, calls BJP the biggest ‘jutiya’ party

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2019

RLD leader's best response to the 'sarab' dig of Modi is a word which sounds like an abuse

2019 poll arithmetic indicates formidable risk for Congress of Rahul Gandhi losing Amethi

Shashank Goyal - 1 April, 2019

Rahul Gandhi has contested from Amethi since 2004 and has always won comfortably. He never faced any stiff competition in Amethi except in 2014 from BJP’s Smriti Irani.

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‘Chop off the limbs of forest officials’: Former judge and NC leader says to people in Kashmir, FIR registered

OpIndia Staff - 1 April, 2019

Tauqeer who was a Principal and Sessions Judge had taken voluntary retirement and joined the National Conference on March 17.

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Former BSF Constable Tej Bahadur Yadav, who had complained about poor quality food, to contest against PM Modi from Varanasi

OpIndia Staff - 31 March, 2019

Yadav was suspended from service after he shared a video complaining about the poor quality of food to soldiers.

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Pakistan will die its own death, we will march forward: PM Modi at ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ mega event

OpIndia Staff - 31 March, 2019

PM Modi interacted with thousands of his followers through virtual video conferencing and answered questions asked by them.

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After resigning from Congress, Sudhakara Reddy wants work under the leadership of PM Modi

OpIndia Staff - 31 March, 2019

After tendering resignation earlier in the day from the Congress Party, the former AICC Secretary Dr P Sudhakara Reddy has now written to PM Modi expressing his desire to work with BJP under his leadership.

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