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Leaders of the Congress are the worst enemies of their own party. They never treated the Congress as a political party. It has been a conglomerate of diverse ideas. For them it has been merely a contraption to rule and they have been born to rule India. And to rule it is imperative that Congress must get majority as laid out by the constitution. While some nurse Gandhism as the ideological contour of the Congress, for others it is committed to secular, centrist, socialism and liberal ethos. There is general feeling in the Congress leaders that Congress is in fact a centrist idea close to the heart of most of the Indians.

In Bengal, a deceptive stability prevails in the post Lok Sabha poll period, with a persistent undercurrent of law and order disruptions. The ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) and its main challenger Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) are keyed into a frenzied party rebuilding exercise, looking ahead to the high stakes 2021 Assembly elections. Their tactics present a contrast: responding to fresh challenges, the TMC has resorted to a defensive, holding operation, while the BJP, currently quiescent, is expected to shift gears soon.

Few would remember Arun Jaitley as India’s commerce and industry minister. As of now, that’s a longtime ago. But for those who knew him in those days, it was clear he was the man of the future.

Deleting Article 370 was the easy part. The state’s muscle power and the mobilization of parties outside the NDA which are eager to curry favour with the powerful ruling party at the centre enabled the government to impose its writ on Kashmir valley with the people held incommunicado.

It may be the right time to think ‘out of the box’ to solve the current problem of economic meltdown. Small sops to the business community and foreign investors are going to tackle the recession and move the economy northward. Only massive ongoing long-term investments in mega projects, carrying long gestation period, can handle the problem by generating large employment and income to revitalise the market. Fresh large employment and income will automatically grow expenditure and demand. Profit-driven, small-purse private enterprises can’t handle such investments. Only the state can.

WASHINGTON: A digital currency backed by a group of nations is needed to compete with the US dollar, which has reached a level of dominance that poses a barrier to economic growth in much of the world, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said in a speech to fellow central bankers on Friday.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The Sioux City Orpheum Theater was packed. Anticipation hung heavy in the air. O.J. Semans, co-founder and co-director of Four Nations, announced to those in attendance they would have to wait for 15 minutes before being able to “feel the Bern”—the campaign was running behind schedule.

BHOPAL: Dissenting voices have begun to be raised in the ruling Congress. One such voice has been raised by K. P. Singh, a senior Congress MLA and former Minister. In a video which became viral K. P. Singh has mounted severe attack on the state leadership. Congress, which was quite confident after two BJP MLAs favouring it during assembly session, has now once again become restless. Singh in the video is seen criticising the government. The video also shows him openly speaking against the Congress party. Singh is calling the government as corrupt and useless. The video shows that Singh is not happy with the government.

It is dangerous to claim that whenever a court decision is against you, it is threat to democracy and whenever it suits you, it is democracy at work. This is what former home and finance minister P Chidambaram has done.

The world is aware of developments in Kashmir but not yet alarmed. India needs to ensure these concerns do not go beyond a certain threshold. United States President Donald Trump’s communications with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan were about lowering the temperature between two countries. This is a minor victory for New Delhi, for Trump’s offer’s to mediate for the second time have now been banished into the fantasy world they had come from. Trump indicated that he might discuss the issue when he would be meeting Prime Minister Modi on the sidelines of the upcoming G7 summit in France.