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By Sushil Kutty In today’s divided world, an independent foreign policy can be possible only when pressure from the US and EU can be countered with the “what works to my advantage” doctrine, which is why Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t stop himself from praising Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not falling prey to […]

The post Jaishankar Has Done A Good Job In Pushing ‘What Works To My Advantage’ first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Himachal Pradesh votes to elect a new government in a couple of days and the debate over Uniform Civil Code is all over the hills, and in the apple orchards. Only the BJP feels the need to come out with the promise of a Uniform Civil Code every time there’s an election. […]

The post BJP Is Quite Nervous In Himachal Before The Assembly Polls On November 12 first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Bharatiya Janata Party President Jagat Prakash Nadda must have hit bed Sunday evening with a satisfied smile, but not as wide as the one ‘K’ for King Chandrashekar Rao must have had on his lean face. Stand Nadda and Rao shoulder to shoulder and it will be Laurel & Hardy in desi […]

The post Telangana Bypoll Result Proves That KCR Led TRS Still Reigns Supreme first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The perception battle surrounding the Aam Aadmi Party and its assault on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s poll prospects in the state, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi cut his teeth in politics, may at the end of the day be nothing more than an expedition to snatch national party recognition from the Election […]

The post AAP Is Generating Big Hype In Gujarat On Poll Eve But Congress Is Doing A Good Silent Campaign first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Five years back in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat, the BJP and the Congress were face to face and people were asking the question “what does Gujarat and Himachal mean for the two national parties? In 2017, Aam Aadmi Party was limited to Delhi and nobody thought much of AAP other than to […]

The post Gujarat And Himachal Poll Results On December 8 Are Crucial For Rahul Gandhi first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty If nobody has noticed, Wayanad Congress Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi speaks in riddles and then walks away from them as if it was malarkey, meaningless talk, which made no difference to the task at hand, i.e., Opposition unity, and divesting the BJP of power, both from the Centre, and from the […]

The post Rahul Gandhi’s TRS Bashing In Telangana Is No Good For Opposition Unity first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Funny things have been happening in Morbi Gujarat where a 143-year-old suspension bridge collapsed under the weight of its own expectations, killing 135 including 50 children. If the bridge was brought down by criminal negligence, nobody seems bothered, least of all the state government. In Gujarat under the pall of gloom on […]

The post Developments Following Morbi Bridge Collapse Have Taken Bizarre Turn first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Dr. Ajoy Kumar tweeted “Morbi bridge collapse is an ‘Act of Fraud’. God’s message to Modi ji”. New Twitter owner Elon Musk wouldn’t object, he is a free speech absolutist. But even he wouldn’t approve of “likes” garnered for being glib about 134 killed, 50 of them children. Also, God […]

The post Is Narendra Modi’s ‘Gujarat Model’ Collapsing Along With Morbi Bridge? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Perhaps the Election Commission wants to give Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi more time to dog-whistle the Gujarat electorate with election-oriented development projects, like the Tata-Airbus C-295, and bombard voters with election-winning poll-promises which may or may not be kept. Gujarat is Narendra Modi’s home-state. Also, the laboratory where the Gujarat […]

The post Election Commission Is Giving PM More Time To Announce Projects In Gujarat first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Shashi Tharoor started the whole shebang. And he couldn’t have been more specious. “Shouldn’t India have a Muslim Prime Minister now that Britain has a Hindu Prime Minister?” Problem is Tharoor gets away with the contentious just because he throws worthless words like “floccinaucinihilipilification” to score brownie points Floccinaucinihilipilification’s dictionary […]

The post Raging Debate On ‘Muslim Prime Minister’ In India Is Uncalled For first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty As if the remission to the “Gujarat gang-rapists” and the showboating from the ramparts of the Lal Qila weren’t enough, now there’s India’s humiliating 107 out of 121 ranking on the Global Hunger index, too, indicting the Modi Government. Only the morally-corrupt and the ethically-challenged will not baulk at children wasting and […]

The post Both Centre And The State Governments Have Failed India’s Hungry Children first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty On October 21, when the Supreme Court asked police of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to initiate direct action against hate speech and not “wait for complaints”, adding that “hesitation” will invite instant retribution, the first thought that came to mind was that the Supreme Court had finally applied the much-needed stick […]

The post Supreme Court Judges Have Given The Order – Will The BJP State Govts Implement? first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Suddenly everybody is an advisor to newly elected Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, advising him on how to go about running the 137-year-old party, which, if it had life of its own, will know the constant that nothing changes in the Congress till the Gandhi family wants it changed. Kharge knows this and […]

The post Congress Has A Golden Opportunity To Reunify And Rejuvenate The Party first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Most times we forget there is also Himachal Pradesh in the Union. Tucked between Punjab and the high Himalayas, largely Hindu–dominated with a burgeoning Muslim-led demographic change. This is a state nestling in the lower reaches of the Himalayas, a paradise on earth largely gone unnoticed because the pure-driven snow hasn’t so […]

The post Congress Has To Do A Lot In Next Three Weeks To Take On BJP In Himachal first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party could not be in a worse place than in Nagpur in the state ruled by the BJP-Balasahebanchi Shiv Sena alliance. The saffron party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah will be stewing in their juices when Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra makes […]

The post Nagpur Panchayat Poll Results Signal A Big Swing Against BJP-Shinde Combo first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Earlier this month, October 10 to be precise, Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, stunned the world when she admitted to the European Parliament that Pfizer did not know if its Covid-19 vaccine had been tested for the prevention of the transmission of the virus at the time of its […]

The post Narendra Modi Govt’s Official Covid Death Figures Need Thorough Scrutiny first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The day after the Supreme Court’s split verdict on the hijab, things are falling into place for a better understanding of the verdict. One, it has become clear that after failing with the essential religious practice (erp) as the raison d’etre for the ‘hijab’ in classrooms demand, advocates for the hijab petitioners […]

The post Decoding The Split Verdict Of Supreme Court On Hijab Ban Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty At the heart of politics is cowardice. Okay, foolhardiness. Take demonetization, for instance. It was a reckless display of authoritarianism, unbridled power, when the BJP-led NDA Government tipped its hat to its Prime Minister and forgot that in a democracy, collective decisions are the norm and the decision to demonetize was patently […]

The post Election Commission Is Functioning In A Bizarre Manner In Shiv Sena Symbol Issue first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Uddhav Thackeray grew up jostling with a rival for his father Balasaheb Thackeray’s pats and “well-dones”. Cousin Raj Thackeray was finally gone and the years thereafter erased the memory of living with a ‘resentment’. But, irony of all ironies, whoever would have thought that a grown-up Uddhav Thackeray would be challenged by […]

The post Uddhav Thackeray Is Emerging As A Principled Leader In His Battle Against Shinde first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi turned national on Dussehra and is now the ‘Bharat Rashtra Samithi’ with Rao its prime mover and shaker, also the man who will replace Narendra Modi if a “BRS-led Opposition” wins big in 2024. With that K Chandrashekar Rao announced his decision to […]

The post Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Has Finally Gone National first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty One opinion poll places the Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the Congress and AAP in the forthcoming Gujarat assembly elections, slated for December 2022, with the BJP reportedly all set to beat both anti-, and pro-incumbency; perhaps, even another altogether different strain of incumbency if there’s one, in the state where Narendra  […]

The post BJP May Again Sweep Gujarat In The State Assembly Polls By Year End first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Congress ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ has been in Karnataka since September 30. It rolled in from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu to Gundlupet in Karnataka. Add the third ‘G’, ‘Rahul Gandhi’, and it will be like the stars were in alignment. Rahul Gandhi started the Karnataka leg of ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ from Mysuru […]

The post Bharat Jodo Yatra In Karnataka Is Crucial For Congress Before Assembly Polls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty There was Sir C Sankaran Nair, the only Malayali Congress president in a 100 plus years. He was elected in 1897. Nair rose from obscurity to prominence and left behind a big family and a sprawling estate. A grandson was Lt. Gen. Candeth, the liberator of Goa. Those early years, the attrition […]

The post Tharoor Vs Kharge – It Is A Battle Between Change And Continuity In Congress first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Shashi Tharoor and Ashok Gehlot will contest the Congress president’s post election and Tharoor will walk into it already sidelined. Gandhi family loyalist Ashok Gehlot is naturally a hot favourite. Tharoor is not going to get the advantage of being fellow Kerala MP to Rahul Gandhi. In fact, if a poll to […]

The post Ashok Gehlot Starts As Winning Candidate In Congress Presidential Poll first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty The Thursday morning nationwide crackdown on the Popular Front of India (PFI) begs the question “Why now, why today, why this morning?” It can’t be that the PFI was found engaging in “terror-funding”, and “terror activities”, just the night before? Terrorists and their handlers take time to set up terror factories, so […]

The post Simultaneous Central Raids Against PFI, Waqf Board, Madrasas Raise Questions first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Iran’s ruling clerics are up to their necks in protests for defending a piece of cloth they insist women should wear to keep their dignities intact. What’s wrong with that? The ‘hijab’ is such an innocuous wraparound. And it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, not when top justices of the topmost court […]

The post Many Questions Remain Over The Demand For Use Of Hijabs By Muslim Girls first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Has Rahul Gandhi’s persistence prevailed? The Gandhi scion has always wanted an elected Congress president, and it seems he is getting his wish fulfilled: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has given her consent to Thiruvananthapuram Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to contest the party’s presidential election, and Congress leaders claim there couldn’t be […]

The post Ashok Gehlot Versus Shashi Tharoor Will Be An Interesting Fight first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 72 on September 17 and the country celebrated how fast an African Cheetah can run in the Indian wild? Not faster than its destiny, right? Talking of which, Modi is not ‘Destiny’s Child’, he is just another man-sized Gujarati with the ability to turn into child’s play […]

The post Our Prime Minister Gets Strength Through Disruption And Controversies first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty On the one hand we have a politician on a ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ and, on the other, there’s the politician who divides along linguistic lines. And the manner in which this is being done couldn’t be more untimely. In the sense, why give Hindi a bad name by raising the highly contentious […]

The post Union Home Minister Amit Shah Should Not Push Hindi In His Own Policing Way first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Sushil Kutty Some of the headlines make it sound like there was a fair bidding between Maharashtra and Gujarat for the Foxconn-Vedanta semiconductor project and Gujarat won the project, as well as the fair-play trophy, fair and square! Far from the truth! The fact is, Maharashtra never stood a chance, not when Gujarat is […]

The post Gujarat Is A Favourite Of Centre When Mega Projects Are Involved first appeared on IPA Newspack.