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Rasheed Kidwai Senior Journalist and Author A moment of reckoning has come for Rahul Gandhi. The former AICC chief has to take a call whether he wishes to return as the 87th president of the grand old party or allow a non-Gandhi to head the Congress. The party’s interim chief, Sonia Gandhi, unwilling to continue particularly after another debacle in the recent Assembly polls in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu, has decided to accept the Madhusudan Devram Mistry report that had been gathering dust since January this year. Mistry heads the Congress panel on internal party...

updated: May 09 2021, 08:19 ist Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake. Rabindranath Tagore's iconic lines from Gitanjali come to mind looking at the irony of the latest bout of political violence that has erupted in West Bengal. As many as 16 people were killed in violence within five days after the result of Assembly elections, in whi...

395 REFRESHING APPROACH: The party has been supportive of Rahul Gandhi’s way of engaging the NDA govt on handling the pandemic, but he remains a reluctant leader. PTI Rasheed Kidwai Senior Journalist and Author Just as speculation was rife over a possible split in the grand old party around May 2 when the Assembly results of four states and one UT will be announced, the Congress seems joining ranks at all levels of the party hierarchy and accepting Rahul Gandhi as its leader. The reliance on Rahul is coming amid a rather grim scenario which has little to do with politics. The enormity o...

Modi owns India’s unfolding Covid disaster Modi owns India’s unfolding Covid disaster India's Covid tragedy was avoidable, and is largely the fault of a boastful, incompetent government. Yet, Modi may suffer few political consequences for his devastating missteps. Pankaj Mishra 22 April, 2021 3:30 pm IST Text Size: A+ India’s healthcare system is buckling under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic: The country registered more than 1,500 deaths and nearly 300,000 infections on Monday alone. Videos of crowded mortuaries and funeral sites, and...

1215 Rasheed Kidwai Assam’s three-phase polling took place on March 27, April 1 and 6, but for the Opposition parties in the state, three-leg elections imply voting dates, counting day and a tricky government formation process. In the Congress’ internal assessment, Assam is heading for a change. But there is a caveat. Even the most enthusiastic Congress leader in Assam is not sure of a clear or decisive mandate for the Mahajot, a 10-party alliance consisting of Maulana Badruddin Ajmal’s All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), Jimochayan (Deori) People’s Party (JDPP), Adivasi Nation...