If Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) and the Bharatiya Janata Party do indeed break their alliance, a rapprochement may not happen between the old allies even in the outside chance of Narendra Modi leading his party to a tally close to double hundred. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 9:26 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Arun Jaitley, Bharatiya Janata Party, bjp, congress, hindustan times, Janata Dal (United), LK Advani, Lok Sabha elections, Narendra Modi, Nitish Kumar, Rajnath Singh, Separated at Birth, Sushma Swaraj, Vinod Sharma
Elections often leave behind abiding images such as those captured after the Congress’s stunning defeat in polls after the Emergency. Carried on the front page of a prominent English daily of the time, a photograph that said it all was of a dustbin stuffed with Congress posters with Indira’s face peering out. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Filed under india · Tagged akhilesh Yadav, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, hindustan times, LK Advani, Narendra Modi, news, Nitin Gadkari, priyanka gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Ram Janmabhoomi, sadbhavana mission, Sushma Swaraj, UP polls, Vinod Sharma
Mohali is for optics. The real match between India and Pakistan is across the negotiating table. And in that, there aren’t going to be any winners or losers. Not at least in the visible future. Read more

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Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, March 28, 2011 at 8:40 pm
Filed under Pakistan · Tagged 2611, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, bjp, Harbhajan Singh, India vs Pakistan, LK Advani, Mohali, Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sachin Tendulkar, Samjhauta Express, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Akhtar, UPA, Virat Kohli, Yusuf Raza Gilani, Yuvraj Singh
Rarely do civil servants stick their necks out to make powerful politicians accountable to law. That’s usually the stuff of which Bollywood scripts are made.
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