Only the politically innocent can be surprised over the controversy that has broken out in the Congress(I) over the question of election to the Working Committee at Tirupati. The plain truth is that Mr Arjun Singh and Mr Sharad Pawar have challenged, even if indirectly, the authority of the party … Read More
The two principal aspirants to the office of Prime Minister within the Congress party, Mr Arjun Singh and Mr Sharad Pawar, have put themselves in an embarrassing position by revealing their hand prematurely at Tirupati. They may find it difficult to live down public display of overweening ambition. In view … Read More
While the CPM’s decision to vote against the Union budget is not likely to bring down the Narasimha Rao government, it unsettles the much trumpeted plan to forge a common anti-BJP front. For it shows that the CPM, which has to be a key player in such a front, has … Read More
The Prime Minister is not known to act on the spur of the moment. It is, therefore, a reasonable inference that he has chosen to give a clean bill of health to the BJP Government in Madhya Pradesh and to publicly acknowledge its right to continue in office for a … Read More
The Tirupati session of the Congress next week will be a ritualistic affair. It can only formally endorse Mr. P.V. Narasimha Rao’s leadership of the party which has been his since Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination last May. A challenge to him could possibly have risen then, if Mrs. Sonia Gandhi was … Read More
