The Political Fix: Pegasus, electoral bonds and tax raids offer a clearer view why BJP is dominant
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The Big Story: Trojan horse
The current era of Indian politics has been referred to as the fourth party system. This means that it is a break from the three distinct phases that came before 2014. These were the dominant Congress era (1952-1967), the Congress decline phase (1967-1989) and the coalition era (1989-2014). This new phase is easily summarised: the dominant Bharatiya Janta Party “has emerged as a system-defining party, in response to which all others position themselves”.
The Political Fix: What can Prashant Kishor bring to the Congress – or the anti-Modi Opposition?
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The Big Story: Peak PK
There are a standard set of questions posed to any effort that seeks to drum up a challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s electoral juggernaut, at least on the national stage:
Indian Express.
That is just a smattering of the editorial responses to the news from last week that British oil company Cairn Energy successfully petitioned a French court to freeze real estate properties in Paris belonging to the Indian government valued at around $24 million. The company said the court order was a “necessary preparatory step to taking ownership of the properties and ensures that the proceeds of any sales would be due to Cairn”, based on the $1.2 billion arbitration award it won in 2020 against tax claims by the Indian government.
More bad news could be on its way. Cairn has filed similar cases in eight other countries, including the US and the UK, which have signed the 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards.
The Political Fix: Why did Narendra Modi meet Kashmiri leaders after jailing them for months?
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The Big Story: Guess who’s back
Through much of 2019, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government claimed the actions it took in the aftermath of its controversially, legally questionable effort to strip Jammu and Kashmir of autonomy were motivated by security concerns.
Yet anyone observing could tell that the suspension of civil liberties and jailing of mainstream political leaders – including the former chief minister who had been in an alliance with Modi’s own Bharatiya Janata Party just months before – was part of a political project. The Indian government did not want to permit the Kashmiri public to express opinions about the reading down of Ar
The Political Fix: Will pressure from the Supreme Court and states prompt a Modi U-turn on vaccines?
The Political Fix: Will pressure from the Supreme Court and states prompt a Modi U-turn on vaccines?
The Centre is itself trying to blame the policy on the states, saying it knew all along that it was a bad idea. 2 hours ago
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The Big Story: Round about
A month and a half ago, India’s Union Government introduced sudden changes to its vaccination policy that it said would liberalise and accelerate India’s campaign to inoculate all adults. At the time we called some of the moves baffling and talked about how they seemed like a panicked reaction to an unforeseen second wave.