I feel very sorry for BJP leader Lal Krishna Advani. Not because his Party did badly in the elections but because minions within the BJP and people outside it, have started rubbishing him. All through last year I have watched some of my colleagues bend...

Iran celebrated the beginning of its official election campaign period yesterday with the launch of a missile capable of reaching Israeli and American bases in the Gulf. The launch comes two days after Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister,...

MUMBAI: An aggressive young leader, a new enemy and Marathi asmita (pride). The Shiv Sena’s sure-fire formula was lifted in toto by its breakaway element Raj Thackeray in the 15th Lok Sabha elections. Though the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) formed...

The Left parties, unfazed by the hectic consultations between erstwhile opponents, will wait for the election results and decide on their approach at a meeting on Sunday. That meeting will be followed by an interaction with their Third Front allies the...

Congress has put alliance-making in southern India on hold, with reports that the world may be speaking too soon by citing AIADMK as the clear winner or by dismissing DMK as the loser. The party has decided to maintain silence on Tamil Nadu till the...

The fifth and final stage of voting in India’s month-long marathon general elections has concluded. Counting of votes is scheduled for Saturday and a new parliament has to be constituted by 2 June. The main fight is between the ruling Congress...

Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Monday expressed the confidence that the United Progressive Alliance would come to power again, and asserted that Manmohan Singh will be the next Prime Minister. Hours before campaign for the final phase of...

The last decade has shown that coalition politics are here to stay. Virtually in every state national parties are constrained to form alliances with regional political formations to garner enough number of seats. In Tamil Nadu too, it is not individual...

Out of 14 Lok Sabhas elected since Independence, only eight have run their full term of five years. Virtually every pre-poll survey has predicted that none of the three fronts, the United Progressive Alliance, the National Democratic Alliance, and the...

WHEN the first general election was held in 1951- ’52, the election activities were looked upon as a sign of free India’s democratic and patriotic exercise. It was more a festival where people displayed their loyalty to independent India and its...