Author: Syed Amin Jafri

Regional Parties: Are they king-makers and game-changers in Indian political scenario? As India goes into the campaigning mode for the ensuing Lok Sabha elections, the hotly debated issue in political discourse these days is whether the regional parties are going to play king-makers and game-changers in the 2019 polls. The question cannot be ignored since […]

The Agenda This Time By: Fatima Hasan At a time when the nation is getting ready to elect its new government for another 5 years, what is the agenda of the parties in the fray for our country. BJP wants Modi to get a second term to pursue its unfinished agenda. For some parties, it is time to oust […]

Hyderabad: Notwithstanding the no-holds-barred, high-voltage, last-minute blitzkrieg by the star campaigners of Mahakutami constituents and BJP, they are unlikely to register any successes. The TRS and AIMIM seem poised to make a clean sweep of the 24 Assembly seats spread over 4 districts in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation area. Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s […]

The theme of the 16th edition of the India conference is ‘India at an inflection point’. As the organisers of this magnificent event have put it, this has been an often-used term about India for almost a decade now. But, as they say, there is no better time than today when the largest democracy is […]

Telugu Desam Party president and former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu turned 58 on Sunday. A large number of party leaders and activists, including sitting legislators, Parliamentarians and former ministers, greeted him at his Jubilee Hills residence. They offered him bouquets, garlands, sweets and fruits. Party leaders also organised ‘annadanam’ (providing food to […]

Telugu Desam Party president and former chief minister Chandrababu Naidu kicked off his 100-day, state-wide yatra on Monday. Naidu set out on the yatra in a specially built campaign bus from Matammagudi (local temple) in a Dalit colony in Rayalapuram village in his native Chittoor district, after seeking divine blessings of Lord Venkateswara at the famed Tirumala-Tirupati Devasthanam. Senior […]

The no trust motion tabled by the main opposition Telugu Desam Party against the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh was defeated in the State Legislative Assembly in the early hours of Thursday. The motion was put to vote by Speaker K R Suresh Reddy around 1.45 am after the House witnessed acrimonious debate over the […]

The Andhra Pradesh government is considering setting up a statutory authority to determine the backward districts and regions in the state.  Replying to the debate on the motion of thanks for the Governor’s address in the state legislative assembly on Wednesday, Chief Minister Dr Y S Rajasekhar Reddy said that the new body would be […]