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Has Didi begun her campaign to be PM?

With her various overtures and right noises at the right time, Mamata is once again trying to reshape her image from being a regional leader to one with national appeal and acceptability. After all, the charge of building a Federal Front may also bring to the fore Mamata's chances to become prime minister in 2019. A revealing excerpt from Shutapa Paul's Didi: The Untold Mamata Banerjee. May is a time of summer lull in Bengal. This year (2018) the calm is distinctive. Just a few weeks ...

04/02/2019 12:44 pm 628 Views 0 Comments

Modi regime making calibrated bid to weaken democracy: Manmohan

Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said the credibility of institutions like the Parliament and the Central Bureau of Investigation has been systematically denigrated in the Narendra Modi-led regime, which he said is making "careful, well-thought-out calibrated effort" to weaken democracy. Addressing a press conference in Indore, Singh said corruption was peaking in the Modi government. "The country has witnessed credibility of institutions like the Parliament and the CBI system...

21/11/2018 04:08 pm 625 Views 0 Comments