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Shikha Mukerjee
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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.
    Interim president of Congress Sonia Gandhi is holding a meeting on Saturday with the election strategist Prashant Kishor. (ANI Image)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | Congress looks paralysed for keeps; PK a PR stunt

    The Congress’ failure is its permanent leadership crisis

    28 April 2022 12:12 AM IST

    Sitaram Yechury, CPIM general secretary (PTI file photo)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | CPM has sunk into a hole: Where’ll it go from...

    Re-elected for the third term as party general secretary, Sitaram Yechury is tasked to deliver a miracle

    14 April 2022 12:25 AM IST

    West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. (PTI)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata’s damage control bid to revalidate mandate

    Regaining control in a ramshackle organisation, where discipline is low and control is loose and sporadic, is definitely...

    31 March 2022 1:53 AM IST

    Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi during the partys Mehangai Hatao Rally against the Central government, in Jaipur, Sunday, Dec 12, 2021. (PTI)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | Either the Congress will survive, or the Gandhis

    The existence of the Congress is at stake: the party with the same name as the one that belongs to the nation

    23 March 2022 12:25 AM IST

    Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves during a road show in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | New dynamic as politics in India reshapes itself

    In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has won, while the Congress has become a virtual presence, as has the BSP

    12 March 2022 2:02 AM IST

    Women walk along a street near a bus stand in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | India’s women must move on from hijabs,...

    Women’s participation as workers has declined, though more girls complete school education and enter colleges and...

    8 March 2022 3:59 AM IST

    Recently, the YSRC has won 86 percent MPTC, 98 percent ZPTC and 82.80 per cent seats in municipal and corporation elections. Representational Image (AP)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | An election without a wave: Canny voters & canny...

    It is noticeable that Mr Modi’s UP campaign has been low key till now

    17 Feb 2022 3:06 AM IST

    Many of these institutions have worked in India for decades on difficult problems where government services were either inadequate or unavailable, such as leprosy and tuberculosis, healthcare and emergency relief. (Twitter)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | What’s suspicious about overseas contributions?

    For the MHA to tersely state that these institutions have been denied permission because of -'violations-' is not...

    7 Jan 2022 1:32 AM IST

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AFP)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | How the BJP has to fight harder to remain on top

    Even the 11 Lok Sabha seats from the seven states in the Northeast plus the 14 Lok Sabha seats from Assam have begun to...

    29 Dec 2021 2:58 AM IST

    The Sharad Pawar-Mamata Banerjee meeting in Mumbai recently signalled a closing of ranks between two successful parties, both offshoots from the Congress and its formidable legacy. (PTI)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | As Indian polity matures, new politics is on the...

    For both the smaller regional parties and the Congress, the BJP is the common enemy

    6 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

    More intriguing is how Mamata Banerjee has used the BSFs territorial expansion to make common cause with Punjab. (PTI)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | Crossing the line: Mamata transforms national role?

    By pilfering the BJP's polished spiel rationalising defections as a necessary political move, the TMC is certainly being...

    26 Nov 2021 2:30 AM IST

    The state election commission issued a notification here on Thursday to resume the election process for these entities and released the schedule for the polls. (Photo: AP)Opinion
    Shikha Mukerjee | Clash of political cultures lies ahead as 2024 looms

    Each election between now and 2024 will challenge the old federal design of authority, power, responsibility and...

    11 Nov 2021 3:48 AM IST

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