India's two main national parties are facing distinctly contrarian leadership dilemmas: while the BJP is confronted with managing the vaulting ambitions of its multiple leaders, ...
12:04 AM, Mar 22, 2013
Anti-graft activist Anna Hazare, who launched his Janatantra Morcha in Patna on Wednesday, sought to recreate the aura of legendary socialist leader Jayaprakash Narayan and conducted himself in a manner to remind one and all about the leader who had launched the first movement against corruption in the country about three decades ago. ...
11:02 PM, Jan 30, 2013
Rajnath Singh, who was elected President of BJP on January 23, finds himself in the familiar role of leading the party at a time when the party is dogged by factional feud and the Lok Sabha polls not too far away. 61-year-old Singh from Uttar Pradesh, who takes over from Nitin Gadkari, returns to the political terrain in which the low-profile, soft-spoken and articulate leader found himself about six years...
01:25 PM, Jan 23, 2013
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani is set to start his anti-corruption rathyatra from veteran socialist leader Jaiprakash Narayan's birthplace Sitabdiara in Saran district of Bihar on his birth anniversary October 11, according to party sources. Ending speculation that he may start his yatra from Sardar Patel's birthplace Karamsad in Anand district of Gujarat, Advani has decided to begin his journey for good governance and clean politics and against...
10:48 PM, Sep 20, 2011
When it comes to Lalu Prasad, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh does seem to become a little over-indulgent. ...
08:12 PM, Oct 25, 2006
When it comes to the selection of ministers from outside the Congress, neither the PM nor Sonia had much elbowroom. ...
05:49 PM, Oct 25, 2006
