Mainstream Weekly

The Modi Myth

A B Bardhan — 2013-10-20T22:56:47Z

After completing the tortuous process of anointing Narendra Modi as the party's prime ministerial candidate the BJP has launched a campaign blitz to build a larger-than-life image of Narendra Modi. The process inside the BJP itself required the strong-arm tactics of the RSS to make all the opponents and dissidents fall in line. They were told to keep their thoughts to themselves but keep their mouths shut. Even the veteran L.K. Advani was put in his place.
All sorts of qualities and (…)

- 2013

No War! Hands off Syria!

A B Bardhan — 2013-09-08T15:28:51Z

The threat of imminent war hangs over the entire Middle East. This is bound to have unforeseen consequences in many parts of the world. The US President, Barack Obama, has announced that he is willing to order a solo armed intervention in Syria. Meanwhile the US will strive for a ”coalition of the willing”.
The French and British had raced to announce an attack. But the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, was stopped in his track by the House of Commons, which roundly rejected his war- (…)

- 2013

Left Must Do its Utmost to Protect Parliamentary Democracy

A B Bardhan — 2008-08-19T21:44:05Z

You have been supporting the Congress-led UPA Government for the past four years. On July 9 you formally withdrew support to the ruling coalition at the Centre by saying that the government went ahead to operationalise the Indo-US nuclear deal by approaching the IAEA to get the draft safeguards agreement, worked out by it with the IAEA, distributed to all the members of the international atomic watchdog's Board of Governors even before it had been discussed threadbare in and cleared by the (…)

- August 16, 2008

Why The Stand-Off?

A B Bardhan — 2007-09-04T14:06:43Z

[(CPI General Secretary A.B. Bardhan is the seniormost Left leader on the national plane after CPM patriarch Jyoti basu and former CPM General Secretary Harkishan Singh Surjeet. This article of Bardhan is being published to help our readers get a clear idea of the Left position on the Indo-US nuclear deal as well as the Left parties' approach to the present confrontation of the Left with the UPA Government on the issue. —Editor )]
The Indo-US nuclear deal has unleashed a big political (…)

- September 1, 2007