Tanishk Ki Kalam Se

The saffron party, in order to expand itself in the border state of Punjab, has been actively inducting various leaders from the other parties, mostly from Indian National Congress. Moreover, after Captain Amarinder Singh, the former CM of Punjab, joining the BJP, it's speculated that the duo of Captain-Jakhar may be given a key role in the party for Punjab. Furthermore, Punjab has never been a BJP-ruled state before. Earlier, the alliance government of Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bhartiya Janata Party had ruled the state for 10 years (two consecutive terms). However, after the farm laws were introduced, the SAD parted ways, taking back its support from the NDA.  Since then, the Bharatiya Janata Party had been trying to expand itself in Punjab. Additionally, Captain Amarinder Singh, after resigning from the Congress party, formed his own party - Punjab Lok Congress, allying with the BJP. However, this alliance faced a humiliating defeat, and including Captain Amarinder ...

Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, the "jadugar" of the Indian National Congress, is all set to contest for the Congress party's national president election to be scheduled on October 17. Moreover, Ashok Gehlot, in a media statement, asserted that the "one person one post" rule applies only to those who are the nominated members.  Furthermore, after Gehlot's statement, it had been speculated that he is not in a mood to quit the CM post even after becoming the national president of the grand-old-party. However, today in Kerala, Rahul Gandhi made it clear that the rule was adopted during the party's "chintan shivir". "I expect that the commitment made by the party will be maintained," he added.  With this, Ashok Gehlot's condition of remaining on the post of Rajasthan's CM despite becoming the national president of the Congress party, seems to be halted. Reportedly, if everything goes as it seems to be, it will be a two corn...

Last year, even after trying its best, the Bharatiya Janata Party had lost the West Bengal assembly elections, and the Trinamool Congress won over 210 assembly seats, with BJP shrinking below 80. Though the saffron claimed that despite losing, its performance was excellent, as in 2016, the party was able to win just 3 seats. But, the political analysts and even the strategists of the BJP know pretty well that West Bengal election results are a big jolt to BJP, as in 2019, the saffron party, for the first time ever, won 18 Lok Sabha seats in the state, leading in around 126 assembly constituencies, and gave a tough fight to TMC - which was able to win 22 Lok Sabha seats. So, if compared to the 2019 results, when the BJP was leading in 126 assemblies, its performance worsened in the state elections. Since after losing the assembly elections in West Bengal, the BJP has been continuously facing defections. Some of the strong leaders who joined the BJP after 2014, went back to t...

The Congress party is going through its hardest phase currently, but there was a time when the grand-old-party used to have several political "Chanakyas" in its core team. One of those sharp politicians was Arjun Singh, former union minister and Ex-CM of Madhya Pradesh. Belonging to Vindhya region of MP, Arjun Singh had played a vital role in not only the state but the national level politics of the Congress party.  In 1984, after the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, her younger son Rajiv Gandhi, who was a pilot by profession, was made the Prime Minister of India in October, and the Lok Sabha polls were to be held in December. Though there was a wave in favour of the grand-old-party due to the sympathy for former PM late Indira Gandhi, the Congress party was facing a tough fight in some particular parliamentary constituencies from the BJP, which was formed in 1980 and was contesting in Lok Sabha elections for the first time. This was the time...

Indian parliamentary elections 2024! Every media house, almost all the journalists and even a lot of intellectuals are busy predicting the results of 2024 today, i.e two years before the parliamentary elections. There has always been a difference between what a common man thinks, what a journalist thinks and what a political analyst thinks of any election. Today the majority of journalists are divided into left and right wings, and the remaining ones have either become psephologists or political analysts who are actually able to do a practical and unbiased pre and post-election analysis. There is a vast difference between what a common man or a left-right wing journalist analyses and what a political analyst thinks. For example, if we talk about West Bengal where TMC under the leadership of Mamata Banerjee won around 211 seats and the BJP just 77, the pre and post-election opinions of several sections were completely divided and even contrary. Before the elections: Will the...

कांग्रेस पार्टी - देश का सबसे पुराना राजनीतिक दल जो किसी समय 415 लोकसभा सीटों के साथ सत्ता पर काबिज़ हुआ था। आज पांच राज्यों के चुनाव नतीजों में देश की सबसे पुरानी पार्टी का सूपड़ा साफ हो गया। राजनीति को जानने और समझने वालों के लिए यह अचंभित करने वाली बात कतई नहीं है। इन नतीजों में उत्तर प्रदेश में प्रियंका गांधी की लॉन्चिंग से पहले ही प्लेन क्रैश समान राजनीतिक शुरुआत हुई, तो वहीं पंजाब में कैप्टन अमरिंदर सिंह जैसे व्यक्तित्व के अपमान को जनता ने ज़ोरदार तमाचा दिया और खुद को राजनीतिक स्वयंभू समझने वाले नवजोत सिंह सिद्धू को करारी हार का सामना करना पड़ा।  असलल में कांग्रेस पार्टी में बुजुर्गों के अपमान की कहानी सन 1970 में शुरू हुई थी जब इंदिरा गांधी ने सिंडिकेट के बड़े चेहरों, जिनमें के. कामराज से लेकर अतुल्य घोष और मोरारजी देसाई जैसे ईमानदार और स्पष्टवादी व्यक्तित्व तक का बुरी तरह अपमान कर दिया गया और सत्ता के घमंड में चूर तात्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री इंदिरा गांधी ने रातों रात मोरारजी देसाई से वित्त मंत्रालय छीन कर उन्हें कांग्रेस छोड़ने पर मजबूर कर दिया। कुछ यही कहानी कैप्...

पूर्व प्रधानमंत्री श्री पीवी नरसिम्हा राव, देश की राजनीति में एक एैसा नाम जिनका कांग्रेस की राष्ट्रीय राजनीति में इस कदर सिक्का चमका कि 1991 में ये प्रधानमंत्री बने। ये वो दौर था जब कांग्रेस में दिल्ली से लेकर राज्य स्तर तक में चतुर रणनीतिज्ञों का बोलबाला था। अर्जुन सिंह, शरद पवार, विद्याचरण शुक्ल, नारायणदत्त तिवारी, प्रणब मुखर्जी, शीला दिक्षित, अशोक गेहलोत और स्वयं नरसिम्हा राव समेत अनेकों चतुर राजनेताओं का कांग्रेस के छोटे से बड़े फैसलों में योगदान हुआ करता था।  मध्यप्रदेश और देश की राजनीति में पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री अर्जुन सिंह को एक चाणक्य के रूप में जाना जाता था। 1984 के लोकसभा चुनावों में ग्वालियर से ऐन वक्त पर श्री अटल बिहारी के सामने महाराज माधवराओ सिंधिया को मैदान में उतार कर अटल को हराने की रणनीति भी अर्जुन सिंह की ही थी। मगर कहा जाता है कि राजनीति के इस चाणक्य को पीवी नरसिम्हा राव ने उलझा कर रख दिया था। अर्जुन सिंह की खासियत थी कि जो पूछा जाता था उसका जवाब हमेश कुछ और ही देते थे, और पार्टी ने इन्हें जहां जहां भेजा वहां वहां इन्होनें जीत का परचम लहरा दिया। वहीं पीवी नरसिम्हा ...