Opposition parties in the country – the Left, the Right and the rest – are united, for a noble cause we are told, of fighting corruption of Congress. Read more

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Posted by Varghese K George on Saturday, December 25, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Filed under To The Point · Tagged A. Raja, BJP, Congress, corruption, India, Indira Gandhi, JP movement, JPC, Left, Maoists, Opposition, Rajiv Gandhi, RSS, Shiv Sena, SIMI, V P Singh
Disrupting parliament is the worst infliction on democracy. The opposition parties, by not allowing parliament to function, are running away from their most fundamental duty of holding the government accountable. Read more

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Posted by Varghese K George on Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 8:28 pm
Filed under To The Point · Tagged A. Raja, Ashok Chavan, BJP, democracy, India, Japan, JPC, Minoru Yanagida, Opposition, Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Supreme Court
Opposition to women’s reservation comprises of two strands.
One line of opposition argues that women do not need quotas for empowerment and if they come through quotas they will always remain ghettoised. Read more

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Posted by Varghese K George on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 9:39 pm
Filed under Uncategorized · Tagged empowerment, ghettoised, governance, Jayalalitha, Madhepura, mamata banerjee, Opposition, Sonia Gandhi, upper class women, women’s reservation