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

Ahead of Punjab Assembly Elections in 2022, CM Amarinder Singh ropes in Prashant Kishor

OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021

Four years after helping the Congress party come to power in Punjab, Prashant Kishor is returning to the state

News Reports

After PM Modi took a COVAXIN jab, Asaduddin Owaisi raises aspersions on the efficacy of Serum Institute’s COVISHIELD vaccine

OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi fuelled apprehensions over the effective of Serum Institute's COVISHIELD vaccine after Germany restricted its use to people within the age group of 18-64

Media

After a massively successful Modi Para group rally, The Wire tries to peddle ‘anti-BJP’ narrative in West Bengal: Read how

OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021

The Modipara volunteers handcuffed themselves and covered their mouth with black cloths to symbolically protest against TMC.

News Reports

Leftist Historian, who got the book on Delhi riots de-platformed, gives ‘activist’ Malala Yousafzai platform to propagate anti-India narrative

OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021

Malala, who had fled Pakistan after being shot at by Talibanis, has continued to peddle Pakistani propaganda against India.

News Reports

‘Bring resolution against CAA, law for Muslim reservation’: Abu Azmi threatens to protest against Maha govt if demands not fulfilled

OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021

Samajwadi Party leader Abu Azmi has asked the state government to bring a law to provide 5% reservations to Muslims in the state.

Politics

Meet Abbas Siddiqui, Rahul Gandhi’s new ally who wanted 50 crore Indians to die from ‘Allah’s virus’

Dibakar Dutta - 1 March, 2021

Peerzada Abbas Siddiqui joined hands with the Communist party and the Congress, even though they have lost ground in the State.

World

‘I may decide to beat them a third time’: Donald Trump hints at 2024 run for presidency in first speech after leaving White House

OpIndia Staff - 1 March, 2021

Donald Trump hinted at a presidential run in 2024 and rubbished rumours that he may launch his own party

Opinions

Assamese gamosa, South-Indian nurse and Bharat-made COVAXIN: PM Modi’s vaccine symbolism is bound to burn ‘liberals’

Nupur J Sharma - 1 March, 2021

Opting for COVAXIN, PM Narendra Modi took his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi

Political History of India

The assault on Gopal Mazumdar’s mother is a reminder of the brutal Sainbari massacre, where a mother was force-fed the blood of her sons

Dibakar Dutta - 1 March, 2021

During the Sainbari attack, the newborn child of the family was thrown into the fire, and eyes of the elder son were gouged out. Two Sain brothers and a private tutor were brutally murdered.

News Reports