Kumar Shakti Shekhar

The BJP leadership's weak defence against the Congress president’s serious charges has cost the party dear. If Rahul gathers steam and the BJP loses some, it could well see 2019 slipping from its grasp.

Lately, the issues the Congress president has raised against the BJP have only served to expose his and his party’s weaknesses.

Besides being a security risk, illegal Bangladeshi's influence the polity and eat into the already constrained resources of a developing India.

The former president's decision has left the Congress stunned.

Fortunes changed once Modi started campaigning.

Time was running out.

The party has completely overlooked two communities - Brahmins and Muslims - in the latest exercise.

The Lok Sabha MP wants to go with a bang, not with a whimper.

Voters are not naive, existential issues matter more than religious and spiritual invocations.

Public mood against the government may turn stronger if action is initiated against the former finance minister.

Besides threatening to weaken the grip of Modi and Shah on the party, a loss will have a bearing on the subsequent polls.

After Venkaiah Naidu's nomination for the vice-presidential elections, Tomar was given the additional charge of housing and urban affairs.

His second term ends on August 10.

NDA’s presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind, if elected, is unlikely to continue the tradition of his predecessors.

The ruling party wants to ensure that the president be elected not just by consensus but also minus any controversy.

This wasn't the first time the Nehru-Gandhi scion indulged in such histrionics.

I knew she suffered from air travel phobia.

The Union environment minister lived a healthy and austere life like a true pracharak.

Senior lawyer did it again, called the finance minister a crook during cross-examination in DDCA defamation case.

While the fodder scam has come back to haunt the RJD strongman, an internal feud is rocking the AAP convener’s boat.

The most striking thing about his personality was that he was always pleasant and humble.

His choice would be someone who would always be ready to oblige him.

Their sheer intention was to draw cheap political mileage from an emotive issue.

It comes and goes but the quality of air hardly gets any better or worse.

The main Opposition party has reasons beyond political.

A number of benefits of doubt helped the controversial actor pull off the case.

The Patidar-Patel agitation and the Dalit protests are not the only issues which go against the CM.

Mishandling of Rohith Vemula suicide case, recent Dalit protests and abusing the BSP supremo will cost the party dearly.

Supreme Court lays the condition for Congress vice-president for defaming the Sangh.

For resigning from the BJP at this juncture, the cricketer-turned-politician will be described as an 'opportunist'.