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.

News Reports

Punjab police lathi-charge, use water cannons on protesting farmers in Moga as clashes turned violent

OpIndia Staff -
The severe action against farmers comes days after Punjab CM Amarinder Singh had called the Haryana Police's actions on farmers as 'brazen brutality'.
News Reports

Worship Mamata Banerjee as ‘Goddess Durga’ this Pujo? 3 committees collaborate for her idol

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Recently, Calcutta High Court ordered a court monitored CBI probe into the human rights violations in the large scale post poll violence that took place in the state after TMC’s Mamata Banerjee returned to power on May 2.
News Reports

Congress party forms ‘agitation committee’ led by Digvijay Singh with Priyanka Gandhi, Udit Raj and others as members

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Congress president Sonia Gandhi forms a committee under the leadership of Digvijay Singh to plan sustain agitations on the national level
Opinions

‘Liberals’ can live only as slaves of Islamists, or they will be ‘cancelled’: Naseeruddin Shah is an example

Sanghamitra -
In the case of Indian 'liberals', all their intellect, their thought process, and talks of progressive ideologies lie firmly at the feet of Islamist radicals.
News Reports

‘Not against religion’: Says Maha CM Uddhav Thackeray after Mumbai police filed 11 FIRs and detained 85 for Dahi Handi celebrations

OpIndia Staff -
After a muted Dahi Handi, BJP MLA Ashish Shelar issued a warning on Tuesday saying if the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government tries to stop the Ganeshotsav, there will be retaliation from the party.
Crime

Bengal post-poll violence: 10 more cases registered by CBI after orders of Calcutta High Court came, total cases now 31

OpIndia Staff -
This comes shortly after the CBI made the first two arrests on August 28 of Biju and Aasima Ghosh, charged with the murder of BJP worker Dharma Mondal and two others in West Bengal’s Nadia district.
News Reports

Punjab: Congress leader’s anti-Hindu remarks spark protests in Bathinda on Janmashtami, organisations demand police action against him

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Hindus organisations demanded that a case under IPC section 295(A) be registered against Punjab Congress leader Sukhraj Aulakh.
News Reports

Did you know: President of Congress was a permanent member of Jallianwala Bagh Trust before Modi govt brought in amendment

Akshita Bhadauria -
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had alleged that the bill was a “denial of the heritage of the country” when the amendment bill was tabled.
News Reports

Assam: Congress breaks up with AIUDF for ‘praising BJP’, Ajmal’s party says Congress has BJP agents inside

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"We see their decision to sever ties with us as a historical blunder," said AIUDF leader Aminul Islam.
News Reports

‘This government is anti-Hindu’: Maha BJP leader Ram Kadam on being stopped from celebrating Dahi Handi

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“How is it that only Hindu festivals are stopped. Other religious festivals aren’t stopped," asked Kadam.
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