Opinion: Sonia Gandhi brings focus back on COVID-19
Addressing the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on May 10, Congress President Sonia Gandhi said, The public health system across the has all but collapsed.
By Venkat Parsa| Updated: 11th May 2021 3:23 pm IST Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi (File Photo)
Venkat Parsa
What was expected of the Modi Government was actually delivered by leader of the principal Opposition party, Congress President Sonia Gandhi. Sonia Gandhi was categorical that it was not a system failure but the failure of the Modi Government to grapple with the deadly and devastating situation caused by the Corona pandemic.
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Opinion: Sellout in the name of reforms
The Modi govt has embarked on the mindless and the suicidal policy of privatisation and in the process it is dismantling profit-making PSUs.
By Venkat Parsa| Published: 19th February 2021 4:04 pm IST Photo: Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Photo: PTI)
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An unabashed push for privatization has been launched by the Modi government. This strikes at the very root of the Nehruvian dream of a self-reliant India, through the policy of according the commanding heights of economy to the public sector, with adequate space for private sector. This Nehruvian model has since come to be known as the model of ‘Mixed Economy’.
Opinion: Azad’s moment of crowning glory
By Venkat Parsa| Published: 17th February 2021 7:52 pm IST Ghulam Nabi Azad. Image: Twitter
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Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad hit the headlines, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi bid a teary-eyed, emotional farewell to the retiring leader on the floor of Parliament.
Azad’s term in the Upper House of Parliament ends on February 15. Since Jammu & Kashmir Assembly has been dissolved, there is no immediate prospect of Azad returning to the Rajya Sabha, unless the Congress fields from some other State.
Perhaps it was a rare sight that two ideologically opposite poles could be speaking on such emotional terms. As Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha for six years, from 2014 onwards, Azad had raised the bar of parliamentary discourse and engagement.