A look at the total number of seats where the Congress stood first and second, and matching it with the BJP’s, tell an interesting story. The Congress continued losing even the number 2 slot on many seats during the ‘90s, mainly in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Since the Congress was slipping rapidly and the BJP wasn’t rising as fast, we had fissionable 3rd Front governments. That
Overstatement of revenue and understatement of expenditure is a constant problem with Indian budgets… The interim budget once more proves that the agricultural schemes announced are just a part of any government’s political arithmetic ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. We saw how the guarantee of farm loan waivers worked out in the recent assembly
The relief in income tax effectively strengthens the great Indian middle class whose expansion of purchasing power holds the key for India’s future. The Interim Budget bestowed by Shri Piyush Goyal today marks a high point in the policy directions that the Government directed by PM Shri Narendra Modi has given to this nation. Interim
The SC said it was “averse” to the order of an interim CBI Director and the Centre should “immediately” appoint a regular chief of the probe agency. The post of CBI Director is “sensitive” and “important”, and it is not prudent to keep an interim director of the agency for a longer period, the top
A Business Standard report, citing NSSO data, says joblessness in urban areas was at 27.2% among women and 18.7% among males. The unemployment rate in India excelled to an unprecedented 45-year high of 6.1% in 2017-18, raising questions over the Modi government’s job creation record, a report showed Thursday. Citing data merged under the National Sample Survey
The huge success of the opposition unity rally organized by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata, visited by leaders of more than 20 regional and national parties, has left the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) cadre demoralized. The party’s workers are frequently growing skeptical about the bullying of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah. Some
