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13Sep

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Amiable, articulate & pragmatic communist | India News – Times of India

Sitaram Yechury, who died on Thursday, was party politically a committed communist but in political praxis — to use a term much favoured by Marxist pundits — he favoured pragmatism over dogma. And like many pragmatic politicians of his generation, he was courteous and amiable, qualities that didn’t depend on which side of the aisle his interlocutor belonged to.He was among the few CPM leaders who didn’t ideologically over-analyse whether the party should ally with Congress, earlier identified as communists’ chief adversary, to take on BJP when the latter became a governing party under Vajpayee’s leadership.During the 2024 campaign, he insisted Modi-led BJP should be taken on in state-by-state contests, via alliances. An analysis partly borne out by results. Interestingly, CPM’s ideological...

10Sep

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Fact Check: Rahul Gandhi Image With Journalist Given False ‘George Soros’ Spin

The Verdict False The image shows Rahul Gandhi with Amulya Gopalakrishnan, a columnist and wife of Congressman Amitabh Dubey, not Manmohan Singh's daughter Amrit Singh. What is the claim? An image of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi standing with a woman in a brown shirt has been shared on social media, claiming that the woman is former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's daughter Amrit Singh. The post also includes Singh’s photo at the bottom right. One such post on X (formerly Twitter) sharing the image with the caption, "Hi #RaulVinci. Where were you travelling with Amrit Singh, Director, Accountability, Liberty and Transparency of Open Society Justice Initiative - a project funded by George Soros?" At the time of writing this fact-check, the post has garnered 389,400 views, 13,00...

10Sep

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Always for talks, says Hurriyat after Rajnath mentions 2016 rebuff | India News – Times of India

SRINAGAR:Mirwaiz Umar Farooq-led Hurriyat Conference reaffirmed support Monday for dialogue with the Centre, a day after defence minister Rajnath Singh told rallies in Jammu that the Centre had sent a parliamentary delegation in 2016 to initiate talks for peace in J&K but the Hurriyat leaders had “shut their doors on them”.At rallies in Ramban and Banihal on Sunday, Rajnath had further said he had spoken to then CM Mehbooba Mufti about how normality could be achieved, even agreeing to withdraw cases against minors.Rajnath was Union home minister then, and BJP and Mehbooba’s PDP ran a coalition govt in J&K.“We even brought (some opposition MPs) Sharad Yadav and other senior leaders to negotiate with Hurriyat but they closed the doors to the visiting delegation,” Rajnath had said. Sy...

23Aug

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Mood of the Nation poll: Modi holds steady, Rahul emerges

Only three Indian prime ministers have scaled Mount 3.0—the rarefied pinnacle of a third term in office. The former two, Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi, encountered major turbulence during their third stints and failed to complete their full terms. Nehru erred seriously at the start of his third term when the Indian armed forces suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of China in the 1962 border war. His persona and credibility considerably diminished, Nehru died of a heart attack in 1964, three years before his term was to end. Unlike him, Indira did not win a third consecutive term; she was defeated in the 1977 general election after completing two terms, the second term blackened by her imposition of the Emergency in 1975. However, she stormed back to power in 1980 a...