In a significant political development ahead of parliamentary elections due in a few months, two of India’s major opposition parties, the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), sealed a seat adjustment deal involving four states and one union territory. This came close on the heels of the Congress reaching a seat-sharing deal with the Samajwadi Party (SP) … Read more
India’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has formally rolled out the era of the “opposition-mukt” (opposition-free) parliament. At the just-concluded winter session of parliament, 146 opposition MPs from both houses of parliament were suspended for demanding answers from the government. This is the highest number of suspensions in India’s parliamentary history. About 20 percent of … Read more
Advertisement At a press conference in New Delhi earlier this week, the opposition Congress party’s media spokesperson Pawan Khera described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the “Congress party’s star campaigner.” Khera pointed out how Modi, in his recent 55-minute speech in election-bound Madhya Pradesh, “mentioned Congress 44 times!” The Congress party’s victories in the states … Read more
Advertisement India’s 28-party opposition front, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance or INDIA, passed its first electoral test last week, with some key victories in assembly by-polls. Of the seven constituencies in six states that voted on September 5, constituents of the INDIA bloc bagged four. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance … Read more