May 18th, 2011 
Girish Nikam Much is being written, discussed and analysed about the last week’s results to the five State legislative Assemblies. One common grain of thought in all this is how people of these States have shown to the world that corruption is no more going to be tolerated. Even if the Governments perform, corruption and nepotism can [...]
April 29th, 2011 Girish Nikam What has been the secret of success of the Left Front Government in West Bengal, that they managed to rule the State for 34 long years and won seven successive elections to the State Assembly and why are they now floundering? The first part of the question has been dogging the minds of people all [...]
April 25th, 2011 Girish Nikam For people in any other part of the world, save for dictated nations, controlled democracies or ones that pretend to be one, what has happened for the last 34 years in West Bengal has been a source of continuous amazement. For that matter even within India, politicians of all non-left parties, have enviously wondered how [...]
April 19th, 2011 Girish Nikam Never before in post-independent India has such an electoral atmosphere prevailed, as it does now in the two southern States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Two octogenarians, on the wrong side of their ninth decade, after completing five years in office as Chief Ministers, are fighting tooth and nail to retain power for their respective [...]
March 29th, 2011 Girish Nikam No other state in this country can match Tamil Nadu, when it comes to showering sops on its voters. Come elections, and there is virtually a downpour of freebies offered to the voters, by political parties, with the sole aim of garnering their votes. Last week, both DMK and AIADMK competed with each other in [...]
May 17th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam The voters of India did what was considered by many if not most, as the unthinkable. It voted back a Government at the Centre which had completed five full years and with an astonishing mandate for the leading party in the UPA coalition, Congress, for the first time in 25 years, which [...]
May 15th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam As the cacophony rises inversely proportionate to the countdown for the results of the marathon five phase Lok Sabha poll, amidst wild speculations, one thing seems to be clear if you cut out all the fluff—– BJPs Prime Ministerial aspirant, L.K.Advanis chances of achieving his ambition is becoming more and more distant. [...]
May 13th, 2009 Girish Nikam Election Trail-Tamil nadu By Girish Nikam As the fifth and final phase of polling concludes today, the big question on the minds of everyone is what is going to be the result. The exit polls on various news channels will give some understanding of what we expect. Meanwhile, here is my own projection of the [...]
May 11th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam After having been banished by his father for years to Madurai, and neglected, in comparison to Stalin, his younger brother, M.K.Azhagiri, the elder son of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK Supremo, M.Karunanidhi is desperate not to let go off this opportunity which he has got. Contesting elections for the Lok Sabha [...]
May 10th, 2009 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam Election TrailTamil Nadu What happens in a state where there is no paucity of sops showered on the people? They will look for more! Tamil Nadu has been one State where successive governments have not only offered free sops, but have also successfully implemented them. Right from the time, when the phenomenal [...]
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