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.

Crime

BJP worker murdered in West Bengal, party accuses TMC backed sand mafia

OpIndia Staff - 10 December, 2018

Political violence in West Bengal continues to claim lives.

News Reports

Fact check: Did BJP President Amit Shah and PM Modi call Baniyas cheaters and accuse them of profiteering?

OpIndia Staff - 10 December, 2018

Earlier, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani had also been accused of making a casteist remark, which turned out to be a Photoshopped image

News Reports

Fact check: Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani did not make the casteist comment ahead of Jasdan by-elections

OpIndia Staff - 10 December, 2018

TV9 has clarified that such a news is fake news and they have not reported Vijay Rupani saying these casteist things

News Reports

Sidhu knew of the opening before Imran Khan was sworn in, Kartarpur a bigger conspiracy by ISI: Captain Amarinder Singh

Shashank Bharadwaj - 10 December, 2018

Pakistan General Bajwa had revealed the Kartarpur corridor news to Navjot Singh Sidhu even before Imran Khan was sworn in as their PM, Punjab CM Singh indicated “a bigger conspiracy" hatched by the Pak Army.

News Reports

Yogendra Yadav’s Swaraj India not to join the grand alliance without “due consideration”

OpIndia Staff - 9 December, 2018

Yogendra Yadav calls BJP an anti-farmers party and declared to support parties which claimed to be the champions of farmers' cause.

News Reports

Congress party is threatening investigation agencies : BJP

OpIndia Staff - 9 December, 2018

BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said that Congress is heaping abuses on investigation agencies and threatening them.

News Reports

NREGA scam worth Rs. 410 crore scam has been unearthed in Congress-JDS ruled Karnataka

OpIndia Staff - 9 December, 2018

Interestingly, the highest number of irregularities have been discovered in Channapatna and Kanakapura taluks of Ramanagaram district, from where both HD Kumaraswamy and DK Shivakumar have been elected.

News Reports

Who is he to say we don’t need a Ram temple? JD(U)’s Pavan Verma hits out on Farooq Abdullah

OpIndia Staff - 9 December, 2018

The senior NC leader Farooq Abdullah had in November asked why a Ram temple should be built in Ayodhya only as Lord Ram is omnipresent and belongs to the entire world.