Indian National Congress – More Loyal Than The King!
The article is adapted from author’s blog and republished with permission. Ask any Indian and he or she will most certainly confirm that the early history of the Indian National Congress is “The History More...
The Right Turns of Shashi Tharoor
YB Chavan was one of the old guards of Congress who held many ministry portfolios. A seasoned politician and one who was respected across the polity of his times, he was one of the most successful ministers of the More...
Congress now wants to be a Hindu party
Some of the news items related to the Congress and its new-found love for Hindus remind me of a story I once heard from my Aunt, a nice story about Akbar and Birbal. Emperor Akbar was once enjoying the fragrance More...
Constitution Preamble or Why the Congress is addicted to secularism
In the recent Constitution Preamble row, the Congress has been exposed as a party which has always tried to conjure up bugbears and hide behind claptrap. So, it sees dangerous conspiracies in an inadvertent error, More...
Why the Congress should not be given the Leader of Opposition
The short and simple answer: it hasn’t earned it and therefore doesn’t deserve it. The slightly longer answer: with a paltry 44 MPs, it doesn’t have the 10% strength required to become the Leader of Opposition. There’s More...
Congress Crimes 5: Punishing Congress crimes is no vendetta
The Congress leaders seem to be convinced that they can fool all the people all the time. The grand old party has reasons to be sanguine about the efficacy of this mantra, for it has ruled the country most of the More...
Heralding a Post-Congress India
Arun Shourie in a recent interview to NDTV has perhaps best captured the agenda for the newly-elected Government led Narendra Modi. He simply said: “Modi would like to succeed as a builder of modern India.” More...
Congress Crimes circa 2013
The last ten years of the Congress-led UPA has been disastrous for the country. Every passing year has been more catastrophic than the previous one. 2013 has witnessed newer scams tumbling out of the government’s More...
The Story Behind Nehru & Indira Gandhi’s Bharat Ratna
Note: This is a guest piece by IndiaFacts reader, Ashok (Twitter handle: @nationalizer). It all started with a curiosity. I was going through the list of Bharat Ratna awardees which contains three of the six Nehru-Gandhi More...
The UPA’S massive fraud on the Constitution
Note: This is a guest piece by IndiaFacts reader Jai Sharma. Shorn of all the verbiage the, the UPA’s minorities welfare programme, tomtommed as seeking “ the welfare of the Minorities” is a sinister More...