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Chandrababu Naidu’s saga of political flip-flops

Nara Chandrababu Naidu, supremo of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, has done it again. His political heel is flexible enough that it can rotate 360 degrees. His political ideology is malleable and ductile. It takes the shape of the container, at his will.

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Kumaraswamy swearing-in and battle of the Telugu biddas

The Telugu Desam Party (TDP) leadership has reason to be chuffed after making its presence felt at HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing-in ceremony in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

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Lesson from #KarnatakaVerdict: Congress should shake hands with BSP

Exactly 15 years ago, in the summer of 2003, LK Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee tried to persuade Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to join a national pre-poll alliance with the BJP in return for support to her in a hung UP Assembly.

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Social media wars: Will resurgent Congress trump complacent BJP in 2019?

A lot has changed between 2014 and 2018 in how India’s two major parties—the Congress and the BJP—work their social media ‘capabilities and handling’.

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#KarnatakaFloorTest: DK Shivkumar, the man behind the manoeuvres

Within hours after BS Yeddyurappa resigned, a beaming Rahul Gandhi emerged in what was his first press conference since the party’s embarrassing performance in the Karnataka Assembly elections. The optics of the press conference is not lost on anyone — the Congress president had practically gone underground since the day…

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Revealed: How the Congress-JDS deal was cracked

It was sometime late on Sunday that contact was first established between New Delhi and Malleswaram. This neighbourhood in the north-western part of Bengaluru is where the Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch, HD Deve Gowda, lives. The Congress had reached out to him because by then, a day after voting on…

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Six ways Rahul Gandhi can get Congress ready for 2019

In an electric 24 hours, the newly-minted Congress President Rahul Gandhi can go from being a Pappu to Sheru, or plunge the depths again, depending on the results of the Assembly election in Karnataka—an electoral battle that has significant ramifications in the run-up to the general election in 2019.

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#KarnatakaElections: How will the state’s mutts influence voters?

It is not news when Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah visits a temple or seeks benediction from the head of a mutt. But when Congress leaders do so, it raises eyebrows. According to a Congress leader, party president Rahul Gandhi and chief minister…

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India is not Rahul Gandhi’s upset wife

In a recent piece on Newslaundry titled “Is Rahul Gandhi the Kalidasa of Indian politics?” the author Abid Shah used the following line:

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#UnnaoCase: Thank god for the Allahabad High Court

The judicial intervention in the Unnao case has once again exposed the political-criminal nexus in Uttar Pradesh. Under pressure from the Allahabad High Court, the Prime Minister’s Office cleared the Yogi Adityanath government’s recommendation for the case to be handed to the Central Bureau of Investigation in record time on…

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Candidates 2014: Let The Gossip Stop

So here it is as promised, the piece that will transparently and clearly narrate what went wrong (or right, depending on your point of view) with Candidates 2014. We will also share what we did and what we learnt.

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Why Pappu Can’t Sing

“Congress Party ko desh se nikalo” (Make the Congress Party leave India) – are the words Rahul Gandhi is heard saying in a video spoofing his All India Congress Committee speech on January 17, 2014. Rohit Iyengar, a young film student in the United States of Americacreated the spoof video…

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