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Ever since Sureshbhai Patel was assaulted by the police in the Alabama state of USA, there has been a lot of outrage in the government and media circles of the Indian Union and correctly so. This 57-year-old man from the village Pij in Gujarat's Kheda district was visiting his prematurely born grandson, born to his son who had gone to the USA to study engineering and is now a USA citizen. The police confronted Sureshbhai as he was walking on the footpath in his son's neighbourhood and for a brief period grilled him in English, a language that Sureshbhai didn’t know. Then he was brutally attacked, resulting in him being bloodied and paralyzed due to severe spinal injuries.

It has been described as the halting of the “saffron juggernaut”, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s worst political drubbing in recent years, a potential “Big Bang” event for the future of Indian politics, and Narendra Modi’s Stalingrad, similar in effect to the battle that decisively stopped Hitler’s Eastward march and became a turning point in World War-II.

AIADMK Supremo Ms. Jayalalithaa’s winning streak since 2011 remains intact with the massive victory of the party candidate in the Assembly bypoll in Srirangam constituency, vacated by her in the wake of her conviction and ongoing appeal proceedings before a special bench of Karnataka High Court.

In West Bengal the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) had finally something to be jubilant about, as it comfortably won two by-elections at Bongaon (Parliamentary) and Krishnaganj (Assembly) constituencies.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The investigations into the infamous bar bribery and Pattor land grab cases have taken a disturbing turn with the Special Investigating Team(SIT) chief ADGP Jacob Thomas voicing fears about a threat to his life.

Will the BJP’s rout in Delhi assembly elections change the party’s equations with regional parties, particularly its allies Shiv Sena and Akali Dal? Does the saffron party’s stunning defeat mark the end of the Modi government’s honeymoon period? Answers are ‘Yes’.

The Delhi election outcome has been a learning exercise for the political parties. Immediate fallout of the results was the toning down of Arvind Kejriwal’s characteristically caustic observations in his Ramlila ground speech after being sworn-in as the Chief Minister.

With every passing, day the ruling party of Bengal, the Trinamool Congress, and its supremo, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, are getting more and more caught in the toils of the Saradha chit fund scam. Saradha boss Sudipta Sen and his fellow-accomplices apart, TMC big guns are being arrested one by one by the CBI.

BHOPAL: The entire non-IAS administrative staff of the Madhya Pradesh government is in an angry mood. The reason: unruly behaviour by leaders and workers of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, including violent attacks on government officers and employees. They have decided to lodge their protest through a day-long strike on February 18. They have given their protest the name of 'Total shut-down'. Administrative personnel, from Patwari upwards, who constitute the backbone of the government machinery, will join the strike.

Manjhi government is now set to face a floor test of Assembly on February 20. The issue of the election of Nitish Kumar as the leader of JD (U) legislator party has been put before Patna High Court, which has restrained the Speaker from announcing Nitish Kumar as the leader of the Assembly, when the session starts. Initially it was rumoured that the Court has stayed the election of Nitish as the JD (U) legislator’s leader, but the fact is that only the notification of speaker making Nitish as the house leader has been stayed. There is logic in the direction of the Court. Nitish Kumar is not a member of the lower House of Bihar, rather he is an MLC. He is not a Chief Minister or even a Minister at the moment. Hence he is not fit to sit in the Assembly and take part in its affairs. House is meant for the MLAs. Ministers, who are not MLAs, sit there, because they are accountable to the MLAs for their works as Ministers and they are there to answer the questions of MLAs.