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.

Opinions

Here’s why rumours of a conflict between Yogi Adityanath and Narendra Modi are only figments of imagination

K Bhattacharjee - 8 June, 2021

Rumours are doing the rounds that there is a supposed conflict brewing between Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Not just numbers: In just one month, over two dozen BJP workers have been killed in Bengal. Read about them here

OpIndia Staff - 8 June, 2021

Despite a landslide victory by the ruling TMC, political violence has been unleashed upon the BJP workers and supporters in West Bengal

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Chidambaram spreads lies over vaccine procurement, when caught, says ‘I was wrong, I stand corrected’

OpIndia Staff - 8 June, 2021

P Chidambaram had to eat his own words as he was provided with the proofs he demanded over chief ministers of states as well as his own party leader Rahul Gandhi demanding freedom to procure vaccines on their own.

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Read the letters by Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee where they demanded Centre allow state govts to procure Covid-19 vaccines

OpIndia Staff - 7 June, 2021

In this whole circus, one of the prominent characters, unsurprisingly, was former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

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Here is how PM Narendra Modi took non-NDA ruled states to the cleaners today over their propaganda against vaccine policy

K Bhattacharjee - 7 June, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation today took opposition parties to the cleaners over their propaganda against the vaccine policy....

Media

Appeasing the Gandhi family? Read how DD under Jawhar Sircar had removed inconvenient parts of PM candidate Modi’s interview during 2014 elections

Dibakar Dutta - 7 June, 2021

Jawhar Sircar had blamed the then I and B Minister Manish Tewari for failing to grant 'operational autonomy' to the public broadcaster.

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UP: Dy CM KP Maurya asks Akhilesh to apologize after his father and SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav takes Covid-19 vaccine

OpIndia Staff - 7 June, 2021

Thanking Mulayam Singh Yadav for taking the indigenous Covid-19 vaccine, deputy CM of UP Keshav Maurya demanded an apology from Akhilesh for creating vaccine hesitancy.

Politics

PM Modi slays opposition propaganda on vaccines, makes vaccine procurement centralised and free for all states. Details

OpIndia Staff - 7 June, 2021

Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to nation on Monday tore into the media and opposition propaganda on vaccination drive conducted in the...

From cricketers to singers, here are the celebrities who glorified Khalistani terrorist Bhindranwale on Operation Bluestar anniversary

OpIndia Staff - 7 June, 2021

Kanwar Grewal, a popular Punjabi singer released a song revering Bhindranwale calling him a ‘saint’. The song has clocked over 1 lakh views on YouTube.

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