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The outcome of the 2018 midterm elections was a big victory for the American people, Democrats, and allied movements, despite GOP gains in the U.S. Senate. Republican monopoly of government has been broken and the political terrain significantly reshaped for battles ahead, including the 2020 elections.

BHOPAL: For the first time BJP rebels are not only posing serious difficulty for the party leadership but giving vent to their feelings in such language that is alien to this party which has been claiming it was a party with a difference.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Tuesday’s Supreme Court order on the Sabarimala issue has only deepened the CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s dilemma.

The Congress’s manifesto for the Madhya Pradesh elections would have made Jawaharlal Nehru squirm with embarrassment, especially the portion about the commercial utilisation of gaumutra (cow’s urine).

The Supreme Court Tuesday took up 50 petitions on the Sabarimala temple entry issue and agreed to hear the pleas in open court on January 22, a small victory for the ready to wait and a minor setback for the right to pray. Swami Ayyappa will be strumming the guitar in the Periyar tiger Reserve but Trupti Desai can continue to entertain hopes that one day maybe she can make it.

LUCKNOW: Finding it very tough to retain the 73 seats it won with help of allies, BJP is playing aggressive ‘kamandal’ and Mandal cards for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The setting aside by the Kerala High Court of the election of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) legislator K M Shaji constitutes a severe setback for the party, which is the second most powerful constituent of the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF).

Running battle between the country’s central bank and the union finance ministry is matter which should not ordinarily concern the common man. It should however become a cause for worry if these start hitting the nation’s economy. From the present indications, unfortunately this is what is beginning to happen. Another meeting of the RBI board is set for November 19 and the central bank and the members of the board might clash once again.

Stage is set for the high stakes elections to five states — Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana — this week. The BJP and the Congress are engaged in an almost direct fight in most of these states. Though the results would be known only on December 11, there is a lot of election related excitement in the rest of the country as these are seen as mini general elections, a dress rehearsal for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and will shape the national mood.

The second anniversary of the landmark transfer of money passed us last week and we didn’t even check the small change in our pockets. How mean can a people who got crisp new notes for soiled currency be? Modi now acknowledges that it was all a fraud played on innocent hoi polloi and that Modi has no face to face up to the truth staring him in the face – demonetisation was a scam!