Union telecom minister Kapil Sibal has needlessly damaged his own image by making avoidable comments against the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on the 2G spectrum scam that led to the resignation of his colleague A Raja, writes Pankaj Vohra.
The winter session of Parliament will end on Monday with the deadlock over the constitution of a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) to probe the 2G spectrum scam still unresolved. The prospect of a mid-term poll sometime next year has added to the air of uncertainty, writes
Pankaj Vohra.
One fails to understand why the BJP appears to have more faith in a Joint Parliamentary Committee headed by a Congressman than a Public Accounts Committee headed by its own senior leader, says Pankaj Vohra.
Senior Congress leader Arjun Singh’s statement in the Rajya Sabha on the Bhopal gas tragedy provides ample evidence of why the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister is referred to as the old fox in political circles. Pankaj Vohra writes.
Every political party looks to the future and the Congress is no different. It has to prepare itself for the 2014 parliamentary poll and if it has to ensure that its USP of attracting younger voters has to be used again, the average age of the office-bearers will have to be nearer to Rahul’s, writes Pankaj Vohra.
With Sonia Gandhi being formally elected as the Congress president for the 4th consecutive term last week, the focus is likely to shift soon to Andhra Pradesh where former CM Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's son, Jaganmohan Reddy, appears to be in a defiant mood. Pankaj Vohra writes.
The construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya has become inevitable following the judgement of the Allahabad High Court, even though the Supreme Court is yet to give its view on the complicated matter, writes Pankaj Vohra.
The ramifications of the decision to get Manpreet out of the Cabinet and the party will be felt when the next round of elections take place in 2012. Pankaj Vohra writes.
After Andhra Pradesh — where the Congress weakened itself by creating a controversy on the Telangana issue — some elements in the party seem busy trying to do the same to its government in Haryana, writes Pankaj Vohra.
Invoking the Congress president’s name, the government managed to get the [women’s reservation] Bill passed with the help of the Left parties and the BJP in the Rajya Sabha but ended up without some of its supporters, writes Pankaj Vohra.
The BJP continues to be directionless. The RSS that had intervened to get Nitin Gadkari appointed as the party president seems equally at sea, writes Pankaj Vohra.
The deposition of senior IPS officer Anju Gupta highlighting the role of BJP leader L K Advani during the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, can be interpreted as a clear pointer to his involvement, writes Pankaj Vohra.
It has to be understood that if the Congress is in power, it is due to Ms Gandhi’s untiring efforts and commitment to secularism and social justice. Whenever she has gone by her instinct, she has been proved right.
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Bad political management continues to haunt the Congress, which will run into rough weather once the much-awaited Women’s Reservation Bill is taken up in Parliament for voting today, writes
Pankaj Vohra.
The congress’ poor political management has been clear over the past few years. It is evident that the party’s back channel contacts with the Opposition parties have virtually dried up, writes
Pankaj Vohra.