Rahul Gandhi – Page 5 – Breaking Views

August 30, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Will Rafale 2019 be Bofors 1989?

Rahul Gandhi was just seventeen years old when the Bofors gun payoff scandal first exploded, a corruption charge that would tar his father Rajiv Gandhi’s reputation and eventually push...

August 6, 2018
TeamRS
Book Launches, Video

Who will win the big battle of 2019

July 22, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

Five Things we learnt in a No-Confidence Motion

1. Pappu can Hug Saala: this was never so much a No Confidence Motion (NCM) against the NDA (the ruling alliance always had the numbers) as much as a...

July 19, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The social media election is here!

Amit Shah is often credited as the BJP president who has converted Indian elections from routine local fights into an all-out life and death ‘war’. Little surprise then when...

July 4, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

A ‘new’ Congress: from Arrogance to Accomodation

A simple photo-op can sometimes reveal the entire political picture. Last month, as Rahul Gandhi hosted an iftaar party, his high table did not include a single opposition party...

May 16, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Blog

The Karnataka ‘nataka’: ten takeaways

15th May 2018 will go down in history as a day when Indian politics rewrote the Harold Wilson oft-used quote that a week is a long time in politics....

March 15, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Modi Vs All

In the mid-1990s, as VP Singh was scrambling to help form a non-BJP, non-Cong ‘Third Front’ government, we asked the former prime minister if such a ‘khichdi’ government was...

March 1, 2018
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

The Chowkidar against corruption?

The defining image of the 1989 Lok Sabha elections was VP Singh campaigning across the country and claiming that he had in his pocket the Swiss bank account number...

December 19, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Gujarat: Urban-rural is split wide open

If there is any city that is seen to represent the public anger over demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax, it is Surat. Textile traders had shut shop...

October 27, 2017
Rajdeep Sardesai
Columns

Dilli Dur Ast for Congress

As the seasons change, there is a spring in the step of the Congress which suggests that a long and harsh summer in the political wilderness maybe ending. Rahul...