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Sidharth Mishra

Sidharth Mishra

- Opinion
- December 13, 2022, 16:51 IST
How AAP’s Hindutva Card Fails to Attract Voters in Gujarat, Backfires in Delhi’s Minority-Dominated Wards
The Aam Aadmi Party should know that the BJP’s constituency is well curated and thus difficult to break into
- Opinion
- December 08, 2022, 16:46 IST
MCD Results: BJP Lost Its Delhi Bastion, But AAP Couldn’t Sweep
More than the anti-incumbency of 15 years, it has been the lack of a credible leadership at the state level that has harmed the saffron party in the national Capital
- Politics
- March 06, 2022, 09:22 IST
Uttar Pradesh Polls: Hung Assembly a Possibility, Congress will be Kingmaker, Says Bhupesh Baghel
Asked if the Congress would win this time in the UP Assembly elections, Baghel said that the result will surprise everyone.
- Opinion
- March 11, 2021, 11:43 IST
Ram Rajya in Delhi: Arvind Kejriwal and AAP’s Another Ideological Leap
Over the past few years, the AAP has increasingly proved its cheerleaders wrong who thought that it was an alternative to the Congress, even as the latter has always accused it of being the B-Team of the BJP.
- Opinion
- February 12, 2021, 19:48 IST
Tawang Celebrates 70 Years of Accession as Nation Remembers Major Khating, Arunanchal’s Folklore Hero
Arunanchal Pradesh Chief Minister will lay a foundation stone for a memorial to be built in the remembrance of Major Bob Khathing at Tawang on February 14.
- India
- January 22, 2021, 19:42 IST
A Train Ride Through History: Kalka Mail Gets a New Name For its Role in Netaji's Great Escape
While the BJP is celebrating the upcoming 125th birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose as Parakram Diwas on Saturday, railway minister Piyush Goyal has announced the renaming of the more than 150-years-old Howrah-Kalka Mail as Netaji Express.
- Opinion
- January 08, 2021, 07:46 IST
AAP’s Debate Blitz in States Nearing Elections May be Aimed at Getting National Party Status Before '24 Poll
AAP continues to be a state party and to get national party status before 2024 it has to be recognised as a state party in at least four states by securing a minimum of 6 per cent votes in each.
- Opinion
- December 29, 2020, 16:44 IST
Like 2020, Narsimha Rao Govt Too Faced Resistance To 1991 Economic Reforms
As of now, impasse continues with the determined farmers refusing so far to give in to the allurements and pressures of the government alike.
- Opinion
- December 14, 2020, 08:39 IST
Kejriwal Woos Farmers With Eye on Punjab Polls, But What About His Responsibility Towards Delhi Voters?
Is it of any consequence to the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal that the supplies to the local markets in the national capital may dry up due to the farmer’s siege?
- Politics
- November 15, 2020, 08:11 IST
Rising Voters, Shrinking Vote Banks: These Polls Proved That the ‘Republic of Bihar’ is a Metaphor for India
While it has given more seats to stability, it has also given a big pat to novelty. While it has given thumbs up to espousers of Marxian theorems, it’s the right of the centre which has emerged the final winner. In short, voters have risen and vote banks have shrunk.
- Politics
- October 27, 2020, 21:08 IST
Caste, Jobs, Black Magic: Excess of Confusing Narratives as Bihar Votes in Phase 1 of Assembly Polls
Opinion polls show a clear lead for the ruling NDA. But, in Bihar, the pre-poll surveys have often differed with the post-poll results.
- Opinion
- October 25, 2020, 19:02 IST
CPI(ML) the X-Factor in Bihar as RJD-Congress Move Away from Politics of Identity to Politics of Subsidy?
A revisit of the composition of the grand alliance and the list of the candidates fielded by it, gives credence to Tejashwi Yadav’s claim of his politics not just being about M(Muslim) and Y(Yadav) but A to Z.
- Opinion
- October 13, 2020, 09:22 IST
Nitish & Chirag: Tale of Mutual Mistrust Where Caste Conflict Tosses Personal Rivalry to Take Centre Stage
Lack of trust between Nitish Kumar and Paswan (made so overt by Chriag Paswan) is not about personal preferences but embedded in the social-caste structure of the state. To illustrate the point, one could recall the infamous Belchchi massacre of 1978, which proved to be a turning point in the revival of the fortunes of then ousted Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and the Congress party.
- Opinion
- September 18, 2020, 12:44 IST
Decoded: Why Harsh Vardhan is Back as the Face of India's Covid-19 Battle
Why Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided not to have Health Minister Harsh Vardhan as the face of the campaign against Covid-19 would certainly be discussed in future date when an analysis would be made of the anti-Covid initiatives.
- Opinion
- August 27, 2020, 16:43 IST
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl — Why Protest? The IAF Should Celebrate the Film
Rather than the satisfaction of having overcome a difficult social-psychological challenge, one fails to understand why the present Air Force leadership chose to run down an inspirational story told through a well-made film.

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