The political strategist Prashant Kishor said the problem with Rahul Gandhi is that: ‘he thinks it's just a matter of time that people will throw him (Modi) away. That's not happening’.
After talks of his joining the party, Prashant Kishor hit out at the Congress on Friday, saying those looking for its quick revival in the wake of the Lakhimpur Kheri incident are in for a big disappointment
'People looking for a quick, spontaneous revival of GOP led opposition based on Lakhimpur Kheri incident are setting themselves up for a big disappointment,' Kishor said on his Twitter handle.
The TMC insiders said the party is likely to launch itself in October in Goa, with its supremo Mamata Banerjee and the party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee also to visit the coastal state in the coming months.
Senior Congress leader and former Union minister Veerappa Moily speaks to Outlook about poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s role in the party, leadership crisis and more..
Prashant Kishor’s decision to resign as Principal Advisor to the Chief Minister comes ahead of Punjab Assembly elections slated for 2022.
TMC leaders handed over the party flag to Subal Bhowmick on the compound of a star hotel in Agartala after the police cancelled the programme scheduled to be held in its banquet hall, citing Covid-19 protocol.
Senior advocate Pijush Kanti Biswas who also is the Congress president of Tripura said that his clients already had COVID test negative reports but still police compelled them to get the testing done again and that was unnecessary.
On Thursday, TMC leader Derek O'Brien reached Agartala. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee is likely to join on Friday.
An I-PAC team, which went to Tripura last week for a survey on behalf of the TMC for the 2023 assembly elections, had allegedly been detained
About 23 members of Prashant Kishor’s I-PAC have alleged that they have been detained at a hotel in Agartala
The team of 23 from Prashant Kishor's IPAC who were in Agartala to research potential support base for the Trinamool Congress in Tripura have been restricted from leaving their hotel premises since Sunday night.
The 22-member IPAC team had arrived in Agartala on an assignment to do ground survey work for TMC in Tripura.
The recent Pegasus report identified West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek, his personal secretary Sumit Roy and her political advisor Prashant Kishor as snooping targets.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, election strategist Prashant Kishor and Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw are among the top targets of Israeli spyware 'Pegasus', The Wire, in its second set of explosive revelations said.
The blueprint for the truce between Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu is ready. But will this uneasy peace last?
In a tweet, which was deleted later, Congress leader Archana Dalmia welcomed Prashant Kishor into the party after his meeting with the Gandhi family
The commonest but unproven theory doing the rounds is that Prashant Kishor is out to cement a Federal Front by stitching together an alliance of disparate opposition group.
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They say the violin mimics the human sound. In his case, it was that of love, of longing. He didn’t know any other way of loving.
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The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Even after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, many 'informed' individuals in India continue to deny the virus with unscientific claims and unfounded data. The latest? Omicron will end the pandemic.
Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
The two incidents in the recent past, one in Mon district of Nagaland and the other at Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh, undermined the core principles democracy and federalism.