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- Ncp, Cong War Of Words Hots Up (Pioneer, Navin Upadhyay, Mar 22, 2007)
The war of words between the NCP and the Congress has intensified with the former accusing the Congress of betraying coalition dharma and justifying its alliance with the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra mayoral polls.
- Thackeray's Invite (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Mar 22, 2007)
With the Congress's electoral fortune on the downswing, the disparate coalition called the United Progressive Alliance it leads at the Centre is increasingly appearing to be disunited in both word and deed.
- Bjp Asks Pm To Take Stand (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 22, 2007)
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to make his stand clear on Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s controversial statement on the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya.
- Let's Join In Interest Of Maharashtra (Pioneer, TN Raghunatha, Mar 21, 2007)
Less than a week after the ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) teamed up with the Opposition Shiv Sena to win the Pune mayoral poll, Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Tuesday made a formal overture to the NCP, by indicating that in the interest of . . .
- Sanjay Got Preferential Treatment: Lawyer (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2007)
In a potentially embarrassing development for Sanjay Dutt, his lawyer, Satish Maneshinde, has been caught on TV admitting that a Tada court may have given the actor preferential treatment.
- Ncp Join Hands With Shiv Sena To Dislodge Cong In Pune (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 17, 2007)
MP Mr Suresh Kalamadi’s 14-year rule of Pune Municipal Corporation was shattered on Thursday by a last-minute Nationalist Congress Party-Shiv Sena pact which saw the position of mayor fall out of Congress hands for the first time in 20 years.
- Indian Police, Villagers Clash Over Farmers’ Killing (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 16, 2007)
Baton-wielding police fired tear gas and beat dozens of villagers on Thursday who were protesting the killing of at least 14 people in a dispute over plans to set up an industrial hub on farmland.
- Some Of The Parts (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Mar 15, 2007)
The unparliamentary flare-up over the Indian Maritime University Bill between CPM and DMK MPs was not just a passing embarrassment for the ruling coalition at the Centre. It speaks of a syndrome that is increasingly with us.
- Bihari Bashing For Raj Raj (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Mar 15, 2007)
When Raj Thackeray broke away from the Shiv Sena a year ago, following differences with his cousin and executive president of the party, Uddhav Thackeray, he pretended to have undergone a metamorphosis.
- Urban Ideas (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Mar 15, 2007)
Mumbai's Biharis are central to Raj Thackeray's political imagination. They offer him an excuse to espouse an agenda of political chauvinism.
- Sanjay Dutt's Case (Frontline, Anupama Katakam, Mar 15, 2007)
In the Mumbai serial blasts case, the focus shifts from the punishment for the main culprits to the alleged leniency shown to Sanjay Dutt.
- Bjp: A New Optimism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 14, 2007)
A few days before the Congress Party lost its governments in Punjab and Uttarakhand I ran into a former minister in the Vajpayee government.
- Coalition Dharma: Left Goes Hammer & Sickle At Ally Dmk (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2007)
The UPA government was severely embarrassed today in the Lok Sabha when two powerful allies — the Left parties and DMK — virtually came to blows over introduction of a Bill to set up a maritime university in Tamil Nadu.
- Congress Pays The Price For Sez Push (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2007)
This could well go down as the first political casualty of the SEZ drive. The Peasants and Workers Party’s (PWP) aggressive campaign that “vote for the Congress is vote for SEZ” seems to have led to the Congress’ defeat in the Zilla Parishad polls . . .
- `Warning Signals' (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Mar 14, 2007)
PRAKASH KARAT, general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), points out that the Punjab and Uttarakhand election results are warning signals for the secular forces in general and the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) . . .
- Mid-Term Worries (Frontline, Venkitesh Ramakrishnan, Mar 14, 2007)
The Assembly election defeats come as a warning against the neoliberal policies of the Congress and the UPA government.
- Congress In Tailspin (Pioneer, Hari Om, Mar 13, 2007)
The writing on the wall was clear even as several questionable opinion polls and exit polls sought to create confusion.
- Rjd Joins Opposition In Criticising Union Budget (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2007)
In a major embarrassment to the UPA Government, the Congress' closest ally the RJD on Monday joined the Opposition in vehemently criticising the Union Budget .
- Congress Inc. Moves Away From People (Asian Age, Kuldip Nayar, Mar 13, 2007)
The Congress deludes itself when it blames price rise for its defeat in Punjab and Uttarakhand. Price rise was only a small factor.
- Bjp: A New Optimism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 13, 2007)
A few days before the Congress Party lost its governments in Punjab and Uttarakhand I ran into a former minister in the Vajpayee government.
- Bjp: A New Optimism (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Mar 10, 2007)
A few days before the Congress Party lost its governments in Punjab and Uttarakhand I ran into a former minister in the Vajpayee government.
- Amenities For Pregnant Women In Train: Lalu (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2007)
Food menu in trains will undergo a change for the better
House approves vote-on-account for Railways' expenditure
Minister rules out blanket privatisation
- How Did Railways Earn Huge Profit, Mps Ask Lalu (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2007)
The Opposition on Thursday tried to take the shine off Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav's dream Budget and asked the Government to explain how Indian Railways earned a whopping profit of Rs 20,000 crore despite a fall in passenger traffic by . . .
- The Hedging Game (Telegraph, Swapan Dasgupta, Mar 09, 2007)
As a city of movers, shakers and fixers, Delhi is blessed with a sensitive antenna. For the past fortnight or so, those who make it their business to monitor such things have been reporting a new trend: the revival of interest in the Bharatiya . . .
- Shiv Sena Activists Burn Mufti’S Effigy (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 07, 2007)
Shiv Sena activists here today burnt the effigy of People’s Democratic Party patron Mufti Mohammad Syed, condemning him for his demand of demilitarisation in the Kashmir valley.
- Only 2.5 Per Cent Rate Of Growth (Dawn, M.J. Akbar, Mar 06, 2007)
The BJP is in serious danger of declaring victory in the quarter-finals. There is already a strut in the air that has not been seen since the now-forgotten Venkaiah Naidu was predicting that the party might even get 300 seats, so strong did he . . .
- Upa Lacks A Coherent Programme (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Mar 05, 2007)
The assembly elections in the two crucial states of Punjab and Uttarakhand, and municipal elections in Maharashtra, particularly Mumbai, sometime ago, have served to somewhat explode the secular myth of the UPA.
- Jamwal, Kawinder In Mayoral Race (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2007)
The Congress, with a strength of 27 councillors against the BJP's 26 (including one of the Shiv Sena), has fielded Narinder Singh Jamwal as the party candidate for the March 6 election to the post of mayor of the Jammu municipal corporation.
- Mumbai Corporator Shot Dead (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 03, 2007)
In a brazen act of murder, 46-year-old Shiv Sena corporator Kamlakar Bhaskar Jamsandekar was killed inside his residence-cum-office in Asalpha village, Saki Naka, on Friday evening. He was rushed to Rajawadi Hospital in Ghatkopar, where he was . . .
- Development Sells, Not Slogans (Dawn, Kuldip Nayar, Mar 03, 2007)
THE voting pattern in India is undergoing a change beyond conjecture. There were times when Pakistan or Kashmir would be an issue at every election — provincial or central.
- Special Article (Statesman, Rajinder Puri, Feb 28, 2007)
Last fortnight this column commented on the future of the BJP. The comment brought many letters in my personal mail. Most letter writers had leapt to wrong conclusions. Some thought that my criticism of the BJP meant support for the Congress.
- How The North Was Lost (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Feb 28, 2007)
We do not know if Sonia Gandhi reads Shakespeare. If she does, that evocative line from Hamlet — “when sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions” — must surely be reverberating in her mind today.
- In Victory Glow, Recharged Bjp Gives Notice To Upa, Sets Up As Next Target (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Feb 28, 2007)
Verdict shows how all fell in place: RSS help, collective leadership despite ego clashes; high ‘strike rate’ in Punjab adds to Jaitley’s medal tally
- Kalam: Price Rise Offshoot Of Growth (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2007)
The growing pressures on the UPA from the spurt in inflation was reflected in President A P J Abdul Kalam’s address to Parliament on Friday, as he referred to efforts by the government to tackle inflation with fiscal and monetary measures . . .
- President Pats Government (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2007)
Prices of essential goods may be skyrocketing but President APJ Abdul Kalam in his address to the joint session of Parliament on Friday patted the UPA Government for making 'concerted efforts' to check inflation and ensure all round development of minorit
- Power Play Within Thackeray’S Parivar (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Feb 23, 2007)
The aging, ailing Shiv Sena chief, Bal Thackeray, finds himself in a piquant situation today. The party which he has nurtured into a formidable force in Maharashtra over the past four decades is no more the monolith he used to control with an iron fist.
- Budget Session Likely To Be Stormy (Pioneer, Rajeev Ranjan Roy, Feb 23, 2007)
The shadow of Uttar Pradesh developments along with the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities is bound to rock the proceedings of the Budget Session of Parliament beginning Friday.
- Nda Wants To Raise Price Rise In Parliament Before Budget (Hindustan Times, Shekhar Iyer, Feb 23, 2007)
A strategy session of NDA parties at the residence of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee decided to raise issue of price rise, inflation and its impact on the common man on February 27 – a day ahead of the Budget’s presentation in Parliament.
- First Among Equals? (Pioneer, Jaya Jaitly, Feb 22, 2007)
The Congress is trying to elevate party president Sonia Gandhi to the level of the unofficial head of the state
- Presidential Puzzle: Why The Congress Waited And Watched (Telegraph, Radhika Ramaseshan, Feb 22, 2007)
Will A.P.J. Abdul Kalam sign on the dotted line if the Centre brings an ordinance dismissing the Mulayam Singh Yadav government?
- Samjhota Firebombing: India Probes Kashmir Link (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2007)
Indian investigators are looking into a suspicious phone call made to Azad Kashmir just after bombs on a train bound for Pakistan killed 68 people, an official said on Wednesday, but Kashmiri militants denied any role.
- Period Of Uncertainty (Pioneer, Arun Nehru, Feb 19, 2007)
Punjab saw a high turnout in the recent Assembly election. Then, there are elections in Uttarakhand, along with polls in a few Lok Sabha constituencies, but these can safely be termed as "political skirmishes".
- Indians Protest Valentine's Day (Jerusalem Post, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2007)
As a Valentine's Day card smoldered, more than 100 members of the Hindu extremist group Shiv Sena gathered in central New Delhi chanted "Death to Valentine's Day" and "People who celebrate Valentine's Day should be pelted with shoes!"
- Sena's Mumbai (Frontline, LYLA BAVADAM, Feb 15, 2007)
The Sena-BJP combine wins another five years in the city corporation of Mumbai as the Congress and the NCP fail to strike a deal.
- Hindu-Yehudi Bhai Bhai (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 15, 2007)
The first ‘Hindu-Jewish Leadership Summit’ that took place in Delhi from February 5-7, 2007 is covered in great detail in the latest issue of Organiser. Special mention is made of the “lavish praise” showered on Leader of Opposition L.K. Advani by . . .
- Despite Protests, It's Roses All The Way (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2007)
Shiv Sena, VHP, Bajrang Dal burn cards on Valentine's Day
- Ambareesh Quits Ministry, Lok Sabha (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 15, 2007)
Move likely to strengthen Cauvery agitation
Ambareesh was inducted into the Ministry 4 months ago
Resignation likely to be advantageous to the Congress
- It’S V-Day, Take Cover (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 14, 2007)
Love is in the air and the more quickly this virus is eliminated, the better. This is not a missive from the Shiv Sena, whose anti-Valentine Day campaigns have become a predictable part of the day’s celebrations, but warnings from the medical fraternity.
- Karnataka Is In A Cauvery Whirlpool (Indian Express, Inder Malhotra, Feb 13, 2007)
Monday saw Karnataka in shut-down mode. The state’s reaction to the final award on the sharing of the Cauvery waters with Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry is entirely true to type.
- Muslims Aren't The Only Voters (Pioneer, Swapan Dasgupta, Feb 11, 2007)
Opinion makers, such as they are, hunt in a pack.
- Mumbaikars Love Raj Thackeray (The Economic Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 10, 2007)
In its first ever electoral trial of strength, the 10-month old Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) emerged third ahead of the eight-year-old Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in the BMC elections.
- The Truth About Winning Awards (Hindustan Times, Khushwant Singh, Feb 10, 2007)
The Republic Day began with a pleasant surprise. I read my name in the morning papers among those to be given State honours.
- Grand Dress Rehearsal (Pioneer, Kalyani Shankar, Feb 09, 2007)
The results of the Maharashtra civic elections indicate a resurgent Shiv Sena-BJP alliance even while ringing alarm bells in the Congress
- Court Orders Sena Chief To Appear (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2007)
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray on Thursday received a bailable warrant from the metropolitan magistrate’s court for his alleged anti-Muslim remarks during his party’s anniversary celebrations last year.
- Sonia 'Displeased' With Deshmukh (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 09, 2007)
Congress leaders flocking to Delhi to give Sonia Gandhi their version of the party's failure to put up in the recent civic polls in Maharashtra are a worried lot.
- Congress Wants Pawar Back In Party (Asia Times, Venkatesh Kesari , Feb 08, 2007)
The Congress is keen to get the Sharad Pawar-led NCP back into its fold. The demand for return of the Pawar-led NCP to the Congress is gaining ground after the revival of the Shiv Sena-BJP combine in the prestigious municipal corporation elections . . .
- Christopher And His Kind (Telegraph, MUKUL KESAVAN, Feb 08, 2007)
For an Indian, one of the most instructive things about the response of the West to 9/11 is how swiftly large sections of its liberal establishment circled their wagons against Muslims.
- Mumbai Yatra: Hindutva Mounts Another Rath (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 08, 2007)
When the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance managed to regain power in the recently-concluded local corporation elections in Mumbai, as a spokesperson of MPCC I had commented that the division of votes between the Congress and NCP was the cause of the saffron . . .
- Elect The Mayor Directly (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Feb 07, 2007)
Municipal elections are usually contested over local, civic issues. So goes received wisdom. Unlike elections to Parliament or state assemblies, where larger issues dominate the pollscape, problems relating to the immediate neighbourhood, or basic . . .
- Sena On The March In Maharashtra (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Feb 07, 2007)
Failure to ally leaves Congresses in disarray in civic polls
The real reason for the Shiv Sena's revival, some argue, is not the failure of the two Congresses to come together but the psyche of the average Maharashtrian, who looks at the Sena . . .
- Post-Poll Mumbai Is A House Divided (Indian Express, Rakshit Sonawane, Feb 07, 2007)
On January 29, just two days before the commercial capital of the country went to the polls to elect the members of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) — which has a budget of over Rs 12,000 crore — the aging, ailing Shiv Sena supremo .. . .
- Ulfa’S Desperate Act (Deccan Herald, Amulya Ganguli, Feb 07, 2007)
ULFA’s aspiration for sovereignty has turned the organisation into an illegal entity and its leaders into outlaws.
- Divided They Fell (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 07, 2007)
The Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance’s better than expected performance in elections to 10 municipal bodies across Maharashtra is not so much a vote of confidence in the combine as it is the outcome of the failure of the Congress and the . . .
- Poll Vault (Telegraph, Editorial, The Telegraph, Feb 06, 2007)
The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party in Maharashtra are repenting at leisure for not marrying in haste.
- Rise Of Chhote Sarkar (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 06, 2007)
The Shiv Sena realised quite early on that this time its campaign for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections would be like no other. Forced to start on the backfoot — Bal Thackeray is 80, the party was reeling under two high-profile . . .
- Mumbai Is An Island (Indian Express, KUMAR KETKAR , Feb 06, 2007)
The Shiv Sena supremo Balasaheb Thackeray has said that he was “astonished” by the victory of the SS-BJP alliance in Mumbai. Narayan Rane, the Sena strongman who joined the Congress and became its militant leader, has said that the SS-BJP victory . . .
- The Sena Strikes Back (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 06, 2007)
The shiv Sena tiger is still burning bright. The election results to 10 municipal corporations across Maharashtra may have thrown up a split verdict (except for the Nationalist Congress Party’s sweep at Pimpri-Chinchwad), but Balasaheb . . .
- Uddhav’S Moves Pay Off For Shiv Sena In Polls (Tribune, Shiv Kumar, Feb 05, 2007)
Friday’s impressive showing at the civic polls in Maharashtra has come as a shot in the arm for Uddhav Thackeray, son and heir of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray.
- Lessons For The Congress In Maharashtra (Hindu, Kalpana Sharma , Feb 05, 2007)
The ruling coalition must heed the message from the local elections if it wants to arrest the saffron surge.
- Voter’S Ace (Asian Age, Editorial, The Asian Age, Feb 05, 2007)
The victory of the Shiv Sena and the BJP in the elections to the municipal corporations in Maharashtra should make the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party sit up and take notice.
- The Sena Strikes Back (Hindustan Times, Editorial, HindustanTimes, Feb 05, 2007)
The shiv Sena tiger is still burning bright. The election results to 10 municipal corporations across Maharashtra may have thrown up a split verdict (except for the Nationalist Congress Party’s sweep at Pimpri-Chinchwad), but Balasaheb . . .
- Heads Set To Roll In Maharashtra Congress (Pioneer, Yogesh Vajpeyi, Feb 05, 2007)
Rattled by the Congress debacle in Maharashtra, Congress president Sonia Gandhi has summoned Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, Maharashtra Congress chief Prabha Rau and other senior Congress leaders to Delhi.
- Middle India Turns (Pioneer, Editorial, The Pioneer, Feb 05, 2007)
The spectacular performance of the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance in last week's municipal elections in Maharashtra would surprise only those who suffer from the mistaken notion that there are full stops in politics and electoral setbacks are forever.
- Civic Lessons For Upa (Pioneer, Ajoy Bose, Feb 05, 2007)
What happened in Maharashtra must jolt the Congress out of its reverie following a spate of spurious opinion polls about a hypothetical Lok Sabha election
- Cong Can’T Take On Sena-Bjp Sans Ncp Crutches (Tribune, Anita Katyal, Feb 03, 2007)
The results of the Maharashtra civic elections have come as a jolt to the Congress as they have shown that it cannot take on the Shiv Sena-BJP combine without the help of Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
- Congress Loses Pawar Supply (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2007)
The voters rejected the Congress and the Nationalist Congress (NCP) in almost six to seven of the 10 municipal corporations in Maharashtra, including the most prized corporation in the country, Mumbai, for their . . .
- Saffron Rides Again (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Feb 03, 2007)
If there is one clear political message from the results of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation elections, it is that the city's secular parties are so divided by mutual antagonism that they cannot overcome the ideologues of Hindutva.
- Common Man Turns Corporator In Mumbai (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2007)
Adolf D’Souza has shown that you need not be a seasoned politician or the son of a seasoned politician to sweep the polls. You need not even have the backing of a political party.
- Sena-Bjp Combine Wins In Mumbai, Leads In Other Parts Of The State (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 03, 2007)
It was a major, or rather unexpected shock, which took the Indian National Congress and their so called associates like the Nationalistic Congress Party (NCP) totally surprised as the saffron brigade lead by the Shiv Sena and the . . .
- Upper Hand For Sena In Mumbai (Hindu, ARUNKUMAR BHATT, Feb 03, 2007)
The Congress could not dislodge the Shiv Sena from its stronghold of Mumbai and adjacent Thane, even as Thursday's civic polls in 10 Maharashtra cities threw up hung Houses except in Pimpri-Chinchwad.
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