In 1995, when the Congress was pushed below the majority mark in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance was struggling to cop up one of their own, Sharad Pawar, the sitting chief minister, well, just sat back and did nothing. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 21, 2012 at 11:18 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Chandrababu Naidu, Congress, Dr Manmohan Singh, hindustan times, Jaganmohan Reddy, Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Mamata Bannerjee, Mulayam Singh Yadav, news, Nitish Kumar, P V Narasimha Rao, Ramrao Adik, Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena, Sujata Anandan, UPA
Bal Thackeray’s maverick ways have always led both his friends and rivals to underestimate him politically. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, June 22, 2012 at 7:15 pm
Filed under India, politics · Tagged Bal Thackeray, bjp, hindustan times, Jayalalithaa, Marathi manoos, Mukul sangma, Narayan Rane, Naveen Patnaik, Nitish Kumar, Pranab Mukherjee, Pratibha Patil, Sharad Pawar, Sujata Anandan
I was amused to see Team Anna draw flak this week from two leaders quite on the opposite sides of the spectrum: Sonia Gandhi and Nitish Kumar. While Sonia, whose speech was read out in absentia at a rally in Uttarakhand, seemed quite impatient with the frequent noises being made by the team members, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar was simply – and justifiably – peeved at the tendency of the team members to think only they are right and everybody else who has his or her own mind is corrupt. Read more

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Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Hind Swaraj Trust, hindustan times, Justice PB Samant Commission, Kanimozhi, Kiran Bedi, news, Nitish Kumar, Raju Parulekar, Sonia Gandhi, sujatan anandan, Team Anna