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Despite leading Mahayuti in Maharashtra to an impressive comeback to power, the BJP and its leadership had to undergo a difficult test of coalition morality within NDA to such an extent that it could not name its chief minister before the term of the Vidhan Sabha expired on November 26. Shiv Sena leader Eknath Shinde had to resign from the post of Chief Minister on the expiry of the Vidhan Sabha, and he has been asked by the Governor to remain as caretaker Chief Minister.

KOLKATA: The Left in India is at present passing through a crisis which is unprecedented since independence. In contrast to the steady concentration of power in the hands of the Right, the rapid decline of the Left over the years is extremely alarming.

In a big boost to the Latin American Left, Uruguay’s left wing opposition candidate Yamandu Orsi became the country’s new president after defeating convincingly the candidate of the ruling far right coalition Alvaro Delgado in the presidential elections held on Sunday, November 24.

KOLKATA: It is not often that an interview given by a country's leader to a foreign media creates a major political controversy at home. But a recent interview given by Dr Mohammad Yunus, Chief Adviser to the caretaker Bangladesh administration, has done just that, generating a fresh domestic debate questioning his motives.

KOLKATA: It is not just that the Bharatiya Janata Party cut a sorry figure in the electoral battle 2024 for Jharkhand assembly despite a high octane campaigning that had strong communal overtones and in which the party’s money power was all too evident. Some new developments, which may shape future politics of Jharkhand, too marked the election 2024 for the state’s 81-member Assembly.

With the identity quotient for Adivasis getting electoral prominence and political economic character of the labour force undergoing a major shift from the traditional features, the left parties in Jharkhand appear to be losing ground as is manifest from the votes they could poll. Both CPI and CPI(M) contested nine seats each but both failed to open their accounts. Their share of votes were: Communist Party of India 491689 votes, 2.08 per cent, Communist Party of India (Marxist) 159906 votes and 0.67 per cent. Even Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) with 559126 votes, and vote share 2.37 per cent could manage to win two seats, Nirsa and Sindari.

‘Batenge Toh Katenge’ could have led to the Sambhal violence that claimed four lives. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 23 spoke of how ‘Ek Hain Toh Safe Hain’ had become the ‘Mahamantra’ of our times. It took Nationalist Congress Party heavyweight Sharad Pawar to put matters into perspective.

KOLKATA: Leadership of West Bengal unit of BJP is nervous lest it gets a rap on the knuckles from its national leadership for failing to fulfil the quota for party membership. The state leadership is in doubt apprehending that people believing in its ideology would be reluctant to join the saffron camp in droves post its ignoble performance in all the six by -elections which it lost this month.

BHOPAL: Stalwarts like Dr Harisingh Gour, HV Kamath, Seth Govind Das and Raghu Vira were among the luminaries from Madhya Pradesh who contributed to the making of the Constitution of India which was passed on November 26, 1949. That way, November 26 is being observed as the Constitution Day since 1950.

WASHINGTON DC: While much of the world has long recognized that the U.S. has been fighting a proxy war against Russia by arming Ukraine to the teeth, proof of a new twist in that story emerged recently from no other a source than the savagely pro-business Wall Street Journal.