Politics

News and views regarding the political landscape of India. From national political parties to regional news, we try and cut through the noise to explain how Indian politics is shaping up.

News Reports

West Bengal: BJP worker arrested for ‘offensive’ post against the nephew of Mamata Banerjee

OpIndia Staff - 21 August, 2020

West Bengal police arrested a 24-year-old BJP worker named Sudhadip Das for allegedly posting 'offensive' content against Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of Mamata Banerjee

News Reports

Manish Tewari opens a pandora’s box, writes to Facebook asking to contact his US-based lobbyist on alleged Facebook-BJP links

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Manish Tewari reveals that US based lobbyist Bharath Gopalaswamy is his policy advisor, seeks involvement in the Facebook-BJP link debate

Opinions

The challenges to ‘Secularism’ and the need to implement NRC to preserve it

Guest Author - 20 August, 2020

The day the Hindus become a religious minority in India, their eventual decimation would become a matter of time as it happened in Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Opinions

Throwing India to the radicals: Biden, Harris and why India is the perfect target of hate for the American left

Abhishek Banerjee - 20 August, 2020

Left to his own devices, Joe Biden would have no hostility towards India. He’s not the problem: the problem is his party. Rather, what his party has become.

News Reports

As Congress tries to paint Rajiv Gandhi as the catalyst in reclamation of Ram Janmabhoomi, book by close friend shatters that myth: Here are...

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

The memoir by Rajiv Gandhi's friend and old school mate claims that the former PM was not aware of the unlocking of Ram Ramjanmabhoomi site in February 1986.

Specials

Shah Bano Case: When Rajiv Gandhi overturned SC judgement protecting Muslim women’s right to maintenance during talaq

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Rajiv Gandhi govt had passed the Muslim Women (Protection on Divorce Act), 1986 to overturn the SC verdict in Shah Bano case

News Reports

Congress era NSA with links to George Soros insinuates India’s domestic policy should be decided by the USA

OpIndia Staff - 20 August, 2020

Why does a former NSA think that India's democratically elected government should need the permission, evaluation and approval of the USA before deciding on its domestic policies is another large question mark.

News Reports