The latest Cabinet reshuffle may have cost Trinamool Congress Mukul Roy the Railways portfolio but he stood his ground when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked him to visit two train accident sites: in Uttar Pradesh and Assam respectively. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 9:01 pm
Filed under India · Tagged BJP, cabinet reshuffle, Chidambaram, Congress, Dinesh Trivedi, Just People, Kasab, Kumkum Chadha, LK Advani, Mamata Banerjee, Mukul Roy, Pakistan, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Rajnath Singh, Sriprakash Jaiswal, trinamool congress, Uma Bharti
BJP President Nitin Gadkari’s call to revive the mandir agenda could not have been more ill timed. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, July 5, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Arun Jaitley, Babri masjid demolition, BJP, Just People, Kumkum Chadha, LK Advani, Manmohan Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Parliament, Ram Lalla, Ram mandir, Sushma Swaraj
I agree with Congress leader Digvijay Singh calling Baba Ramdev a thug. I have always suspected his credentials and the latest CID report only substantiates my thinking. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Acharya Balakrishna, Anna Hazare, Baba Ramdev, BJP, black money, Digvijay Singh, Janardhan Dwivedi, Just People, Kapil Sibal, Kumkum Chadha, Manish Tewari, Manmohan Singh, National Commission for women, Rajghat, Ramlila ground, RSS, Sushma Swaraj
The Congress may be feeling a bit smug but the mandate of the elections to five states has fallen short of the expectations of the Congress Party. The Congress had hoped to win at least three, if not four out of the five states. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, May 17, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Assam, Assembly Elections, Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, Congress, Corruption, Kerala, Mamata Banerjee, Manmohan Singh, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, trinamool congress, UPA, West Bengal
Recently, the BJP nominated film star Hema Malini for the Rajya Sabha by-election from Karnataka. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Bikaner, BJP, Bobby Deol, censor board chief, Dharmendra, Girish Karnad, Hema Malini, Karnataka, Leela Samson, Lok Sabha, Parliament, rajya sabha, Sharmila Tagore, Sholay, Sunny Deol
Last time when I had written about Kashmir, I had said that though the situation is out of control, it is pointless to blame either politicians, state or the Centre. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, January 25, 2011 at 9:52 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anurag Thakur, Arun Jaitley, BJP, Centre, kashmir, Lal Chowk, peace, politics, Srinagar, state, Sushma Swaraj, tiranga- yatra, tri colour, Valley
Sanjay Gandhi has been resurrected. Forgotten for nearly thirty years, both, the BJP and the Congress, are invoking him. For different reasons though. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Ambica Soni, amrita singh, BJP, Congress, Dhirendra Brahmachari, Emergency, Ghuam Nabi Azad, Indira Gandhi, Kamal Nath, Maneka Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Ruksana Sultana, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Gandhi
A few days ago I read about Rahul Mahajan and his intention of continuing his father, the late Pramod Mahajan’s political legacy. Read more

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When Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh complimented Union Minister Kapil Sibal for what he called his zeal and dedication in handling and I quote Dr Singh “the most important ministry” I could not agree with him more. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Filed under India · Tagged A Raja, BJP, Brinda Karat, Citibank, Congress, DMK, Indira Gandhi, Maharashtra, Minister of Human Resource Development, Opposition, Parliament, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Prithviraj Chauhan, Smriti Irani, St Stephen's college, Sushma Swara, Telecom Ministry, Union Minister Kapil Sibal, Vikram Pandit
It has become a trend to dismiss Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a “weak Prime Minister”. It was a line formally adopted by the Opposition, mainly the BJP, and one which others parrot. Read more

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Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, BJP, bureaucrat, Commonwealth games, Congress, HT Leadership Summit, Indo-US Nuclear deal, Kashmir issue, Left, LK Advani, Mamata Bannerjee, Maoists, Narasimha Rao, Opposition, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, rising prices, Sita Ram Kesari. Babri Masjid, sonia gandhi, Telangana issue, UPA, US President Obama