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.

Politics

Lalu Yadav snubs Congress after it announces it is no longer part of Mahagathbandhan, calls party’s Bihar incharge ‘low IQ’

Vijay Deo Jha - 24 October, 2021

Political analysts believe it is deliberate pre-poll posturing to confuse voters and to divide especially the upper caste voters of the NDA.

Politics

Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra celebrates supporter calling PM Modi ‘b*@#***d’, a woman-centric abuse

OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2021

Mahua Moitra celebrated the fact that one of her supporters had abused Prime Minister Narendra Modi in vile language.

Media

Pro AAP blogger fondly recalls old India where his friend used to cover photos of Hindu Gods for him to offer Namaz, gets slammed

OpIndia Staff - 24 October, 2021

Rifat Jawaid was miffed that in 'new India', appeasement in the form of covering up Hindu deities for Namaz is not encouraged.

Opinions

Anti-drug laws to farm laws to UAPA: Are liberals undermining the Indian state by calling everything ‘draconian’?

Abhishek Banerjee - 24 October, 2021

If you reject everything from anti-drug laws to the voting system to the conviction of terrorists by the Supreme Court, what is left? Are you advocating for anarchy?

Politics

TMC normalises and celebrates violence as it shows PM Modi, Amit Shah and a civilian being crushed by Mamata’s foot

Nirwa Mehta - 24 October, 2021

TMC blows the poll bugle in Goa with an image that normalises and celebrates violence.

World

Spain: Former monarch Juan Carlos was given female hormones to curb his sex drive, reveals former cop

OpIndia Staff - 23 October, 2021

Former Spanish monarch Juan Carlos reportedly had sexual relations with over 5,000 women and was apparently a sex addict.

OpIndia Explains

How Dravidian separatists have proved themselves to be modern-day Nazis with the words they use for Tamil Brahmins

Suren - 23 October, 2021

Tamil Brahmins have been compared with Jews often in public discourse and the Dravidian derision proves that they are the modern-day Nazis

Politics

Samajwadi party worker Adnan Khan threatens Hindus, abuses Hindu women in vile language, arrested

OpIndia Staff - 23 October, 2021

Adnan Khan, a Samajwadi Party worker, has been arrested after threatening Hindus and abusing Hindu women in vile language.

News Reports

Mamita Meher murdered, dismembered, girls of hostel allege sex racket and Jay Panda trains guns at Patnaik: Is the Odisha govt shielding a minister?

OpIndia Staff - 23 October, 2021

The kidnapping and subsequent murder of a 24-year-old Mamata Meher of Jharni village under the Turekela block of Balangir district have sent shockwaves across the state

News Reports