Swati Chaturvedi

It will be part of the back-to-communal-basics tactic adopted by BJP president Amit Shah.

On Diwali, the UP CM will sound the poll bugle from Ayodhya for the 2019 General Elections.

Sick of the PM's bombastic style, people are finding the inarticulate Rahul Gandhi refreshing.

Journalists ideally speak truth to power, poor Arnab Goswami can't even speak the truth.

Despite fatal inadequacies of both UP and Haryana chief ministers, their purpose in BJP is to ensure PM’s ‘super man’ image stays intact.

The Delhi CM has realised that he needs to walk the talk in the capital before his show can go national.

The CM is currently doing a tightrope walk, with some help from the Congress.

That in a single line is the institutional crisis that has gripped the foreign policy establishment.

DSP Ayub Pandith was beaten to death by a crowd near Srinagar's Jamia mosque.

By nominating Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proven he's not the bigger man.

A fourth term for him in MP would make him too powerful; hence he will be brought to Delhi as part of the fairly powerless Union Cabinet.

It's a chance for them to get the attention they desperately seek from paid troll hyena armies.

The most telling thing is the circumspect silence maintained by leaders of note.

Long-pending decisions are being made and leaders being moved for upcoming polls in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.

Caught in the middle of this mindless muscle-flexing are the Army and the people of the Valley.

No other government in India's history has worn 'nationalism' so much on its sleeve.

Why are the two men, along with the Centre, not being held to account?

After refusing to campaign for the BJP in the UP elections, he has been completely marginalised.

If urgent steps are not taken, the former CM said, we will be back to square one.

If the elections are held on schedule, the CM would be in power for a mind-blogging 20 years.

Makes you wonder at the BJP's commitment to hugely publicised schemes such as 'beti bachao, beti padhao'.

Where does the much mentioned 'vikas' go? It will be reduced to another jumla like 'achhe din'.

It can't get any worse.

Unfortunately, a democracy is only as good as the quality of dissent it allows.

The home minister may increase the volume of his dissent depending on UP poll results.

The BJP is unstoppable when it is faced with the party in a direct contest.

Despite the surging crowds mobilised via Amit Shah's hugely financed poll machine, PM Modi and his speeches evoke the maximum derision.

BJP president is no longer the potent vote gatherer he was in 2014. Delhi and Bihar results are a proof.

This has several implications for the Congress party.

He jumps from cause to cause and then vanishes after a stray sound-bite.