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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Kerala: Case registered against BJP workers for protesting against screening of the controversial BBC documentary

OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2023

BBC documentary "India: The Modi Question" was screened in numerous areas in Kerala, which prompted protestsby BJP's Yuva Morcha

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Son of AK Antony quits Congress after being asked to retract tweet criticising BBC documentary on PM Modi

OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2023

Anil Antony had said that the BBC documentary on PM Modi was an attempt to undermine India's sovereignty

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Screening of propaganda BBC documentary in JNU campus halted due to power cut, Leftist student body claims stone pelting

OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2023

JUNSU President Aishe Gosh claimed that "ABVP pelted stones, but no step by admin yet. We almost completed the film's screening. Our priority is that electricity should be restored. We'll file FIR."

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MP Mahesh Jethmalani asks Jairam Ramesh to come clean on his links to Huawei, a Chinese company banned by several countries for security reasons

OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2023

Jairam Ramesh has been lobbying for Huawei for decades, Rajya Sabha MP Mahesh Jethmalani asked him to disclose links

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Kerala: Communist groups to screen BBC’s propaganda documentary on PM Modi

OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2023

CPIM-linked DYFI and SFI have planned to screen the banned propaganda BBC documentary across Kerala.

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‘India is a vibrant democracy, shared values tie us’: US State Department spokesperson rebuffs Pakistani journalist trying to discuss BBC documentary

OpIndia Staff - 24 January, 2023

The Pakistani journalist claimed that the US has compromised on its value by refusing to condemn PM Narendra Modi for the 2002 Gujarat riots.

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Congress-friendly journalist claims Bharat Jodo Yatra is aimed at regime change in India with the help of foreign powers

OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2023

"Much before September 2022, there had been a growing concern among foreign powers about the possible reincarnation of Nazism in India," Anil Tyagi claimed.

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PM Modi will have same fate Hitler, Mussolini, says Siddaramaiah, ex-Karnataka CM and Congress leader

OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2023

On Sunday, January 22, Congress senior leader Siddaramaiah, taking a cue from his colleagues, compared PM Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler

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Himanta Biswa Sarma pulls up Indian Express for taking a dig over Shah Rukh Khan’s 2 AM call

OpIndia Staff - 23 January, 2023

Sarma was responding to an article by Indian Express titled, "Politics | ‘Who is SRK to Shri SRK in only 24 hrs’: Opposition takes digs at Himanta Biswa Sarma".

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