Political Parties

Political parties start preparations for UP civic polls with focus on door-to-door campaigning

Scheduled to be held in November and December, the polls will test the poll preparedness of the parties and give them an opportunity to prove their mettle in the run-up to the 2024 general elections

Centre to hold all-party meeting over Sri Lankan crisis today

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will brief floor leaders of all political parties in both the Houses of Parliament at the meeting

Punjab: Charanjit Channi not invited to Bhagwant Mann's oath-taking ceremony, say sources

Earlier on Monday, Mann invited people of Punjab to come to the swearing-in ceremony through a video message

Opinion | Does the Nehruvian ‘idea of India’ exist?

The political parties which claim to uphold the old idea of India either exhaust themselves with one generation or transition into family-based parties, however the BJP, which positions itself as rejecting Nehruvian ideas, has no such problem

Punjab polls: Several turncoats including Gurmit Singh Sodhi and Anil Joshi rewarded with Assembly tickets

Gurmit Singh Sodhi, who was the sports minister in the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government, later joined BJP, while Anil Joshi quit the BJP and joined the Shiromani Akali Dal last year

Kashmir's migrant workers throng railway stations, bus stands to leave after targeted killings of non-locals

Officials said that security in and around the railway stations and bus stands in Jammu, Udhampur and Kashmir has been beefed up as a precautionary measure

Tripura political parties, civil society condemn Bangladesh violence; CM Deb hopes Hasina takes proper action

Vandalisation continues in the neighbouring state of Bangladesh, with Hindu-owned temples and shops damaged and Hindus attacked in parts of the country

I-T Dept searches Sonu Sood's home for second straight day; Oppn slams BJP, saffron party denies political link

A recent deal between Sonu Sood's company and a Lucknow-based real estate firm is under the scanner. The survey has been initiated on allegations of tax evasion on this deal, sources said

Decriminalisation of Indian politics: Supreme Court says political parties refusing to wake up from 'deep slumber'

Cleansing the polluted stream of politics is obviously not one of the immediate concerns of the legislative branch of the government even as the nation continues to wait and is "losing patience", said the apex court said

The real business of politics: Parties are united by one ideology — maximising profit, maintaining systems of power

The politicians are only the stars of the election movies in which voters are the audience and party workers, the extras. The real power, ultimately, resides with those who decide which star and which script to back: the financiers.