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A Surya Prakash is a Senior Fellow at the Vivekananda International Foundation. He specialises in constitutional and parliamentary affairs. He is also the author of ‘What Ails Indian Parliament’ (HarperCollins, 1995).
Reclaiming the Sardar
People are now acquainted with the pettiness and cunning displayed by the Congress to mask the achievements of Sardar Patel Recently, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra claimed that Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a dedicated Congress leader and a close associate of former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. She also mocked at the...
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Need to re-write history
22 October 2019 | A Surya Prakash -
Raising Pakistan’s bogey
08 October 2019 | A Surya Prakash -
Veiled plot in Kashmir
24 September 2019 | A Surya Prakash -
The forgotten Gandhi
10 September 2019 | A Surya Prakash -
Voices of sanity at last
27 August 2019 | A Surya Prakash -
Congress’ dream fulfilled
13 August 2019 | A Surya Prakash -
Karnataka impasse
30 July 2019 | A Surya Prakash
The Left crisis in India
The declining fortunes of the two communist parties, CPI and CPI(M), which started from West Bengal, have been a body blow to the communist movement Friedrich Engels had said that one of the principal outcomes of the proletarian revolution would be the withering away of the State. In India, post-2019, the...
Lessons from defeat
If the BJP maintains pace, it may head the Congress way when it had seats in virtually every State. Meanwhile, the Congress must begin rebuilding the party much like the BJP did after 1984 The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) spectacular performance in the Lok Sabha election is as much a positive...
The Italian connection
BG Deshmukh’s revelations in his book, A Cabinet Secretary Looks Back, shows how security protocols in the Rajiv era weren’t entirely above board There is much talk of how Rajiv Gandhi as Prime Minister took his Italian relatives on a holiday to Lakshadweep and compromised national security by misusing the...
Reality check for Chacko
While the Congress leader’s assertion that the Nehru-Gandhis are the ‘first family’ goes against our democratic ethos, their transgressions are now precedents followed by others Although the Congress was in the vanguard of the freedom movement, many of its members are still not comfortable with the core values in our Constitution...
Money rules the roost
Although muscle power has been brought under control, electoral spending has reached monstrous proportions. The Election Commission must come face-to-face with this reality Although the use of muscle power to capture booths and intimidate voters belonging to vulnerable social groups has drastically come down in recent years, the percentage of candidates...
Making false promises
The Congress manifesto hopes for sympathetic amnesia by talking just about governance and politics post 2014. It’s hard for the people to forget the disturbing Emergency The Congress recently released its manifesto. As it is India’s oldest party with presence in every part of the country, however nominal and depleted it...
Lasting legacy of corruption
There are invaluable proofs on how the Nehru-Gandhi family went about the business of funding their activities and election campaigns. Nobody can claim to be clean The shrill and abusive attacks launched by Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his oft-repeated diatribe “Chowkidar Chor Hai” has...
