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The writer is a senior journalist based in New Delhi.
    Indias opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, speaks during a meeting as part of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu on Monday, Jan.23, 2023. (Photo:AP)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | After the Yatra: Will it lead to Rahul’s...

    As the longest padayatra in modern India concluded earlier this week, the resounding note is that the outreach from...

    4 Feb 2023 12:43 AM IST

    A worker uses an anti-smog gun to control dust at a construction side at the landmark India Gate monument in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP/Manish Swarup)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | Civic polls in Delhi almost like battle of a...

    Civic polls are not necessarily local affairs. It is certainly not if the election is for the national capital. Delhi is...

    30 Nov 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel (PTI)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | Gujarat UCC focus to divert attention from Morbi?

    BJP believes that Kejriwal’s party will cut into the votes of the Congress

    15 Nov 2022 12:01 AM IST

    Congress leader Sonia Gandhi greeting newly elected party president Mallikarjun Kharge in New Delhi. (AP)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | The right man at the right time for the Congress

    At 80, Mallikarjun Kharge has got a big break. Whether someone believes it or not, it is true and time will tell. To...

    21 Oct 2022 12:16 AM IST

    Gehlot and Pilot were at loggerheads over the chief ministers post soon after the Congress won the 2018 Rajasthan Assembly polls. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | Dilemma for Congress in Raj: To axe or not to axe

    Congress president Sonia Gandhi — who will soon cease to hold that post — has a humongous problem facing her...

    10 Oct 2022 12:05 AM IST

    BJP National President J.P. Nadda in a meeting with former Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh, in New Delhi, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | As BJP footprint grows, will it get bogged down with...

    Most of the recent inductions show that the BJP, which boasts of being the world’s largest party, simply loves...

    25 Sept 2022 10:53 PM IST

    Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with party leaders waves at supporters during the Bharat Jodo Yatra at Parassala, Thiruvananthapuram, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (PTI Photo)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | Will Rahul’s ‘Bharat Jodo’ become a game-changer?

    Road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari, who is not exactly in the good books of Prime Minister Narendra...

    12 Sept 2022 1:17 AM IST

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) activists gather during a roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of the seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections in Varanasi. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | Will a ‘Jagjivan Ram’ rise in BJP ahead of 2024 LS...

    The sudden move by the BJP leadership to drop road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari from the party’s...

    24 Aug 2022 12:17 AM IST

    Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Dy CM Devendra Fadnavis with newly sworn-in ministers, at a ceremony at Raj Bhavan in Mumbai. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | Maha finally gets Cabinet, but problems not over yet

    It has finally happened. It is perhaps a record of sorts in Independent India. The Cabinet expansion in Maharashtra,...

    10 Aug 2022 12:05 AM IST

    Venkaiah (in picture) stressed that freedom of the press was indispensable in a democracy. He said the media plays a vital role in educating people on various issues and strengthening democracy. DC ImageOpinion
    Sunil Gatade | Venkaiah Naidu: Last of Advani loyalists to be a...

    With the denial of a second term for him as VP, the signal for the former BJP president is that it is the end of the...

    27 July 2022 7:50 AM IST

    Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis after a special session of Maharashtra Assembly, at Vidhan Bhavan in Mumbai. (PTI file photo)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | The ‘Gujarat Model’ of BJP politics now in...

    What happened in Maharashtra recently was a well-scripted move to further the ruling party’s footprint

    16 July 2022 1:05 AM IST

    Hardik Patel (PTI file photo)Opinion
    Sunil Gatade | The Gujarat ‘extraction’: Hardik’s journey to BJP

    Hardik bidding goodbye to the Congress over a week ago had not come as a surprise, much less shock

    2 Jun 2022 12:53 AM IST

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