India's political parties
A study of democracy is incomplete without a study of one of its most fundamental components—political parties. In India, works on the country’s political parties so far have explored, among other things,
Political Parties
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Nick Burns may come out of retirement to see N-deal through
Indrani Bagchi | TNN New Delhi: With the nuclear deal getting a fresh lease of life in the twilight of the Manmohan Singh government, there appears to be a reignited buzz on both sides of the Atlantic. US undersecretary for political affairs, William Burns, who succeeded Nicholas Burns on the job after he quit in March, is likely to make his maiden visit to India later this month. The visit would have otherwise been a run-of-themill affair until things hotted up on the deal.
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Sena will toe NDA line on nuke deal, asserts BJP
The Opposition BJP on Wednesday a s s e r t e d that its oldest ally, Shiv Sena, will toe the NDA line on Indo-US nuclear deal in case of voting in Parliament on the issue. The clarification comes in the wake of speculation that the Congress-led UPA would be looking to the assistance of smaller parties from all sides to cobble up the numbers to back it for the nuclear deal since the Left withdrawing support to the government now appears almost certain.
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Karat distances his party from Pandhe
THE CPM, which came under heavy sniper fire from the Samajwadi Party for its formulation that all those who support the Indo-US nuclear deal are anti-Muslims, on Wednesday was forced to clarify that it did not agree with such a viewpoint. In a
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To allay Mulayam fears', PM issues clarification
Samajwadi Party and Congress on Wednesday stepped up their efforts for an early conclusion of their pact on the nuclear deal, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh swiftly complying with SP's demand for a public statement to allay the apprehensions on the controversial India-US agreement.
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Narayanan's tutorial holds N-class for Mulayam & Amar
THE Samajwadi Party on Wednesday demonstrated its clout with the UPA government when it got the PMO to address its apprehensions on the Indo-US nuclear deal. The party's concerns on the issue were conveyed to NSA M K Narayanan when he came calling on the SP leadership here on Wednesday evening to brief them about the developments on the deal.
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SP may press Congress for FM's removal
May Also Seek Heads Of Deora, RBI Chief, Ronen Diwakar | TNN New Delhi: Samajwadi Party's support for the beleaguered Manmohan Singh government will not come cheap. The party, which virtually holds the key to the government's survival given the imminent withdrawal of the Left's support, is likely to come up with an expensive wishlist.
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Azad will prove majority, says Soz
THE Congress high command is caught in a delicate situation on Jammu and Kashmir, where chief minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has launched an all-out operation to mobilise numbers to survive the July 7 trust-vote after the PDP pull-out. Apprehensive about Mr Azad poaching on a section of its MLAs, the PDP leadership has registered a strong protest, cautioning the party high command that any misadventure by the chief minister months ahead of the assembly poll could trigger a crisis in the sensitive border state.
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SEZs or brick kilns, it's the land that's losing out
If the results of the recently concluded panchayat elections are anything to go by, the issue of conversion of farmland into industrial plots will continue to make or mar political fortunes in the state in the years to come. Strangely enough, brick kilns are destroying vast quantity of fertile soil every year in North 24-Parganas even as people of Singur and Nandigram have showed their avid dislike for those who tried to grab their land.
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Amarnath row will go nationwide: BJP
Dissatisfied with the cabinet's decision of revoking the order of transfer of land to the Shrine Board, the state unit of Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) today warned that the agitation for Amarnath issue will go nationwide. "The cabinet's decision today at Srinagar has made it clear that Jammu and Kashmir government is being run by Kashmir-centric leadership," Ashok Khajuria, BJP state president told mediapersons at a press conference here this afternoon.