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BHOPAL: After Vidhan Sabha election, is both BJP and Congress have taken many steps to strengthen their organisation. One step the Congress has taken to oust such elements who by various acts of commission and omission, damaged party’s prospects in the election.

The first week of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra has stirred the politics in the North East India. The political churning that began with former Congress President Rahul Gandhi led Yatra launch on January 14 from Toubal in Manipur has already alarmed the BJP leaders, especially Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister of Assam, who seems to be panic stricken, as his actions and statements reveal.

More than the leadership of the Congress and Samajwadi Party, it is the media, which is relatively inquisitive and worried about the two parties still not resolving the contentious issue of seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh. While the leaders of two parties express their gratification at the pace and dimension of the political development, the media does not see any rationale and the shade of serenity in their claim.

Is India awash in religion? India cannot help itself. Religion is so mixed with politics and everyday life in India that it bristles. This, despite the country’s apex court asserting in1994 that mixing religion with politics was fraught with danger. Today, the same Supreme Court has by far a far more liberal attitude on mixing politics with religion, which the international media labels as “Modi’s illiberalism”.

India will hold national elections in April-May this year. With 16 state governments under control, the BJP and its allies seem all set to continue their grip on national politics. However, the notorious heat of the upcoming summer makes the elections something to watch out for. Not all political leaders can brave India’s summer campaigning for the national elections. Let’s see how they fare!

This month, a controversy arose following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Lakshadweep, an Indian archipelago. The visit, which strained relations with the nearby Maldives, also unexpectedly increased tourist interest in this small group of islands, causing concern among environmental specialists and residents.

Negative politics does not pay – either in the short term or in the long run. This is the bitter lesson the Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) in Kerala is learning.

Liberation of women from visible and also invisible shackles leads to liberation of the entire human kind. The idea is not new, though not realized even after centuries. She is always the first victim. Of every instance of violence. Beginning with in domesticity to societal injustices, she is the mirror that reflects how far we have arrived so far as our evolution is concerned.

Seat Sharing is the vital component of the electoral strategy, but for leaders of INDIA bloc of Jharkhand, using the forum for espousing the cause of the adivasis and poor and fight for their identity and welfare is the primary mission. Leaving aside one or two seats, the opposition leaders have succeeded in thrashing out the complex issue of seat sharing and are now waiting for the arrival of Rahul Gandhi, with his entourage of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, to formally make it public.

The Congress has appointed YS Sharmila, the party chief of Andhra Pradesh. But Sharmila, who is the politically estranged sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has a rather weak Andhra Pradesh unit of the Congress to fight her brother Jagan, who in turn is fighting anti-incumbency as well as the old warhorse, the Telugu Desam Party’s Chandrababu Naidu, whose ambition knows no bounds, though Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise did clip his wings over the last one decade.