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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.

A Donate for Desh fundraising campaign or a 6,200-km Bharat Nyay Yatra crossing 14 states, most of them ruled by the BJP and the toughest battlegrounds for the emaciated Congress in these parts, is not a strategy for wooing the masses and winning a mandate. (Image: Twitter)

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress flounders, needs a strategy to get relevant

A Donate for Desh fundraising campaign or a 6,200-km Bharat Nyay Yatra crossing 14 states

3 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with party leader Rahul Gandhi and other opposition leaders during a protest over the suspension of MPs amid the Winter session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. (PTI Photo/Vijay Verma)

Shikha Mukerjee | Will MPs' suspensions jolt INDIA into anti-BJP...

Mr Kharge, groomed in the Congress culture of consensus building, is a natural for the job of convenor of the INDIA...

22 Dec 2023 11:21 PM IST

Congress workers holding the party flag celebrate the partys win in Karnataka Assembly elections, outside Vidhana Soudha in Bengaluru, Sunday, May 14, 2023. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress Complacency Helps Modi win Back Hindi belt

In politics as in cricket, the better side wins. It is credit that must necessarily be shared between the leader/captain...

5 Dec 2023 12:11 AM IST

Photo: Representational image

Shikha Mukerjee | Public discourse standards fall, distorted by EC's...

The EC has limited power to control the terms of public discourse

30 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury and other opposition leaders during the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) meeting, in Mumbai, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. (PTI Photo/Kunal Patil

Shikha Mukerjee | Does single-minded Congress bode ill for INDIA...

It's true that when votes are fractured, outcomes are unpredictable.

15 Nov 2023 12:05 AM IST

TMC MP Mahua Moitra speaks with the media, in Kolkata, on Tuesday. (Image: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Ethics, politics and the art of lobbying, wooing...

The tale is not the alleged cash that Mahua Moitra received; the tale is of two legislators

1 Nov 2023 12:00 AM IST

There are three challenges that this collection of leaders have identified as critical to the revival of the institution, which, if it is achieved in the next round of Assembly elections, will position the Congress to do the absolutely necessary heavy lifting for the INDIA alliance in 2024. (Image: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress must forge unity out of its internal...

The Congress has shown unexpected focus and discipline

20 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with party leaders Rahul Gandhi and K.C. Venugopal, Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray during the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) meeting. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | INDIA gets set, preparing for liftoff; BJP gets...

INDIA is poised to unveil itself as a credible challenger to the hitherto invincibility of the BJP

5 Sept 2023 12:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the historic Red Fort on the occasion of the 77th Independence Day, in New Delhi, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist Lav)

Shikha Mukerjee | Inflation biggest challenge for Modi as 2024 gets...

Inflation prompts voters to begin listing all the things that he or she cannot afford and all the reasons why he/she...

22 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray, CPI (M) leaders Sitaram Yechury and D Raja at a joint press conference after the opposition parties meeting, in Bengaluru, Tuesday, July 18, 2023.

Shikha Mukerjee | INDIA' veterans ready to unsettle BJP's masterplan

The assumption that INDIA would waste its time, effort and energy on achieving the impossible, is probably wrong.

22 July 2023 12:11 AM IST

NCP Chief Sharad Pawar addresses the media during a press conference at his residence, in New Delhi, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Diversity vs homogeneity, as Pawar play rocks Maha

The bottom line seems to be regardless of how many MLAs Ajit Pawar can parade at his meeting, he cannot afford to...

7 July 2023 12:07 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a public meeting ahead of Gujarat Assembly elections, in Rajkot, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Is India's middle ground getting more assertive?

The ante has been upped for Narendra Modi, personally, and for his party, generally

9 Jun 2023 12:00 AM IST