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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2024 Lok Sabha elections: BJP releases first list of 195 candidates from 16 states and 2 UTs. Check the full list

OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2024

The BJP on Saturday, 2nd March, released the first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming general elections

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Amid rumours of BJP denying tickets to 100 MPs, Gautam Gambhir and Jayant Sinha quit electoral politics

OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2024

Ahead of general elections, Gautam Gambhir and Jayant Sinha took to X to announce that they are quitting electoral politics.

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TMC used women as “vote bank”, then looked elsewhere when women sought justice in Sandeshkhali: PM Modi

ANI - 2 March, 2024

In his public address at Krishnanagar, PM Modi said that while the women of Sandeshkahli "cried out for justice," the ruling party in the State "looked elsewhere."

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Rahul Gandhi returns to India from ‘paid event’ in UK, Congress supporters hail him as ‘Visiting Professor’ of Cambridge University

OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2024

Rahul Gandhi is far from being the 'Visiting Professor' of the University of Cambridge. In fact, the Congress scion is not even a 'visiting Fellow' as revealed by The New Indian in March 2023

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JNU PhD holder Kanhaiya Kumar mistakes ‘H1N1’ swine flu virus as visa category, laments how Biharis need to travel outside State for honeymoon

OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2024

The H1N1 flu was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2009 and it claimed that the lives of 2.84 lakh people.

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Marathi actress Ketaki Chitale gets booked merely for asking how many false cases are filed under stringent SC/ST atrocity act

OpIndia Staff - 2 March, 2024

Ketaki Chitale also lashed out at the Maratha reservation movement led by Manoj Jarange Patil and reportedly dubbed it as a 'fair of fools.'

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Politics of caste and class: How Rahul Gandhi is pushing the country into the fire through his divisive politics

चंदन कुमार - 1 March, 2024

Rahul Gandhi is doing divisive politics with the sole goal of getting a government bungalow in the country's most exclusive power circle, Lutyens' Delhi.

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‘Partners in I.N.D.I. alliance have become Gandhi’s monkeys over the Sandeshkhali issue’: PM Modi attacks TMC and opposition allies in West Bengal

OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2024

PM Narendra Modi said, "Top leaders in the I.N.D.I. alliance have shut their eyes, ears, and mouths when it comes to talking about the Sandeshkhali issue."

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Jesus College of Cambridge University confirms exclusively to OpIndia: Rahul Gandhi had not received official invite – it was a paid event. Here’s the...

Dibakar Dutta - 1 March, 2024

Opindia found that the Jesus College administration allows commercial activities in the form of presentations, meetings, events and even group dining at its large conference halls, breakout spaces and grounds.

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