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Window dressing is going places. It has travelled from the confines of the books of accounts to the ranks of the saffron brigade in West Bengal which have been allegedly inflated to impress the BJP top brass, according to sources in state BJP.

Although a Bharatiya Janata Party-led (BJP) government has been re-elected in Tripura winning a second term early this year, centre/state talks on the separate tribal statehood demand remain stalled. Despite earlier announcements made by top leaders in the state capital Agartala, about GOI’s move to facilitate a dialogue between the BJP and the resurgent Tipra Motha(TM) tribal party through an interlocutor, there has been little forward movement.

Implementation of the four labour codes in the current financial year 2023-24 has well neigh been stalled. BJP’s debacle in Karnataka Vidhan Sabha election, the result of which came out on May 13, has changed the priorities of the party and RSS, where they have just seen how their narrative has failed along with Modi’s so called charisma as vote catcher.

Declining real wages of workers beginning from 2017 in India, exacerbated during the pandemic in 2020, continued worsening due to high inflation throughout 2022, seems to deteriorate further in 2023 on account of downturn in the domestic and global economy.

Yes. The verdict in the Karnataka assembly polls announced on May 13 is emphatic. The Congress has won majority in the 224 member house comfortably. The Congress winning figure is around 139 seats as against 62 by the BJP and 20 by JD(S) around afternoon. The final figures may see a small change but there is no doubt about the big defeat of the BJP in the state which the saffron leaders conceded themselves.

Congress has romped home in Karnataka convincingly ousting the BJP in the state assembly elections held on May 10. This means there will be no presence of BJP in south India in any state government and it will remain only a North Indian party. If this trend continues, the Congress may do well in several states including Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan due this year. The Congress Legislature party is meeting tomorrow in Bengaluru to elect a leader.

True to predictions, Karnataka goes back to the Congress and its spectacular margin over ruling BJP not only reflects the strong anti-incumbency factor but also the negativity of all serious efforts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with bombastic roadshows for a turnaround.

LUCKNOW: BJP has consolidated its position in Uttar Pradesh with capturing of four mayor seats and leading in remaining 13 seats out of total 17 seats.

The Supreme Court has thwarted a move by market regulator SEBI to delay its investigation into the alleged manipulation of shares by the Adani group and issues that have been raised against the group in the wake of the Hindenburg report, which saw the share price of Adani companies nosedive.

The welcome development in Indian economy is that Inflation, riding on base effect, has moved below five per cent mark in April this year. But worrying factor is slowdown in Industrial and consumer goods production as IIP growth decelerated to 1.1 per cent in March this year. As a result rating agency Crisil expects India’s GDP growth to slow down to six per cent in the current year 2023-24 as against 7 per cent in just ended financial year 2022-23.