September 14th, 2011 
Girish Nikam When the 1999 lok sabha elections were announced and Congress President, Sonia Gandhi a greenhorn in politics then, chose Bellary as one of the two constituencies to contest, the reason why she chose it was because it was considered one of the safest constituencies for the party in the country. Congress had never been defeated [...]
August 18th, 2011 Girish Nikam On the morning of August 15, when Prime Minister braving the incessant downpour briskly climbed up the ramparts of the Red fort, his mind was obviously occupied by the issue of probity in public life. No wonder he spent nearly one third of his address on the issue of corruption and tried to convince the [...]
August 2nd, 2011 Girish Nikam For a national political party like the BJP, nothing can be more embarrassing than their top decision-making body, the Central Parliamentary Board, is made to look like a helpless spectator. A party which prides itself on its “disciplined cadre” and never misses an occasion to blow its trumpet now finds itself in an unprecedented state. [...]
July 31st, 2011 Girish Nikam we are publishing the pages (362 to 378) from the report prepared by Lok Ayukta of Karnataka. REPORT ON THE REFERENCE MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF KARNATAKA UNDER SECTION 7(2-A) OF THE KARNATAKA LOKAYUKTA ACT, 1984 (PART – II) ———————————————- M/S SOUTH WEST MINING COMPANY LIMITED Dr. U.V. Singh in his Report submitted to me [...]
July 7th, 2011 Girish Nikam On Dec.9, 2009, when Home Minister P.Chidambaram made that late night statement, promising to initiate the process of the formation of a separate state of Telangana, succumbing to the pressure from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) chief, K.Chandrashekara Rao’s fast unto death, the Centre had opened a Pandora’s box. As the Telangana region starts to boil [...]
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 [...]
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