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Lynching over the ‘gaumata’ is back in currency and poll-bound Haryana is where it has returned with a vengeance. In one incident, a Class 12 student was mistaken for a cow-smuggler and shot dead by a group of gau-rakshaks. In another incident a Muslim migrant from West Bengal was brutally lynched in a Haryana village for allegedly consuming beef. Now, his fellow travellers haven't stirred outdoors. They want to return to the safety of West Bengal ASAP.

Democratically elected governments often think their electors are idiots. They may have good reasons to build such a notion as a good number of them don’t deserve to be there in terms of their personal background and characteristic traits. Many of them are booked for even criminal offences. Voters have little choice in the selection of candidates. They go to polling stations to vote for candidates, who could be political liars or manipulators. The candidates are often chosen by their electors sold on false promises.

In its hundred years of long journey, the RSS leadership did not appear to be so scared and insecured as it is feeling now, in the post Lok Sabha electoral verdict of 2024. Rahul Gandhi is the nightmare. His politico-ideological agenda challenging the philosophical base of RSS’s politics of Hindutva has unnerved the RSS to such an extent that it had to convene an all India co-ordination meeting of all its frontal organisations to evolve a strategy to counter him.

BJP’s attachment to Ayodhya is not emotional, but land and profit related greed, said Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. The allegation can’t be simply brushed aside, given the way land in around Ayodhya is being acquired and transferred by the government to their own people in the name of development of the temple town as well as the pressure being exerted by the land mafia over the common poor people to sell their land to the rich persons. May Lord Ram, the god, save the poor, from their lands being planned ultimately to go to the rich.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is working to expand on a two-track basis. The first is by recruiting influential leaders from other parties, particularly Congress. Although this may involve a small number of leaders, their influence is significant. Second, the party is focusing on enrolling a large number of new members.

Recently, President of India Droupadi Murmu expressed her anger and anguish on the issue of the alleged rape and murder of a young lady doctor in Kolkata. But she hardly referred to the numerous criminal assaults on women and girls who also became victims of the horrible offence committed against them in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and other states around the same time when the Kolkata crime took place.

The Supreme Court’s recent judgments granting bail to Delhi minister Manish Sisodia and others in the Delhi excise and similar cases mark a significant shift in how the judiciary approaches money laundering charges, particularly those pressed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The rulings not only highlight the evolving judicial perspective but also shed light on the court's broader stance regarding the principles of bail and detention.

The Akal Takht’s declaring Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal a ‘tankhaiya’ on August 30 is most likely to reset the Punjab politics in general and Sikh politics in particular. In the tumultuous history of Punjab, this development is significant. Punjab may be entering a new phase of political uncertainty.

Among all Chief Ministers, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is having the most fun. He does what he feels like and Sarma struck a rich vein of support from Assam's indigenous people when he insisted that he was "CM only of some (people)". The "some" does not include "Miya Muslim", allegedly Bangladeshi infiltrators. But Sarma is the Chief Minister of indigenous Assamese Muslims.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In a major political development, senior CPI(M) leader EP Jayarajan has been relieved of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) convener’s post. The decision to remove EP from the post was taken by the CPI(M) State Secretariat which met on August 30.