Government in India
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INDIA, 2016/07/16
The stage is finally set for Rahul Gandhi to take charge of Congress. The Congress vice-president is likely to become president at a appropriate All India Congress Committee session. Delhi is the likely venue. The session may be held in the latter half of August or in middle November.
Sonia Gandhi, the party president since 1998, will step down in favour of her son, but she is likely to retain her role as chairperson of Congress parliamentary party (CPP).
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INDIA, 2015/12/16
India is not only the biggest democracy in the world—815 million of its 1.29 billion people are eligible to vote—but as well the majority diverse.
It has 36 states and union territories, a lot of of them the size and people of large European nations. Its people speak 22 major languages, and perhaps a hundred additional, which are not officially recognised, inclunding hundreds of dialects.
Despite this apparent unwieldiness, India has defied naysayers who doubted the country could hold together at all, let alone as a democracy. Today no one seriously questions that the modern Indian republic has grown deep democratic roots and traditions. Its citizens hold the independent Election Commission in high esteem for conducting free and equitable polls, and setting benchmarks in using technology and managing massive logistics.
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INDIA, 2015/11/17
The results of the Bihar Assembly elections 2015 have stunned the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The party feels that at the heart of its poor performance is its failure to bring about a “vote transfer” away from its rivals, economists are convinced India’s increase story is intact while political analysts are sure BJP will live to fight an extra day. How does an apolitical observer see these elections?
Initial, is the curse of the large mandate BJP received in the 2014 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) elections. Some of the opposition parties post the parliamentary elections are teetering on the verge of insignificance (Communist Party of India, Bahujan Samaj Party), while some other such as the Congress, DMK are staring down the barrel of a gun. These opposition parties, struggling for political survival, have remained in an extended national of campaigning aggressiveness.
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INDIA, 2015/09/30
India has appointed new envoys to China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Britain and the United Nations, in a major rejig at the External Affairs Ministry.
Vijay Gokhale, India's envoy in Germany, has been named as the new ambassador to China. He will take over from incumbent Ashok Kantha in Beijing, sources said Friday.
