Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Thursday
"It is a sequel to the democratic process of elections already on in the region and should be seen as just that: nothing more, nothing less," say top government sources
States should not aim to artificially push vaccination numbers
Eighteen individuals contributed to electoral trusts in 2019-20.
Samajwadi Party leader Ghanshyam Tiwari told Business Standard that a 'decision' not to invite the Congress party to the meeting was just a "rumour"
This comes amid heightened speculation about the possibility of a third front against the ruling BJP
My father Ram Vilas Paswan and I stood by BJP like a rock, but they're not there when I expected them in such difficult times, says Chirag Paswan on LJP crisis
While the move is not without its internal political contradictions, "much more than Narendra Modi, it is the Congress that needs to worry", said a former Congress chief minister
Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Saturday
The government has to generate a huge amount of employment without giving an upward push to inflation, while keeping subsistence spending intact
The BJP is upset because Twitter flagged a specific post by a BJP spokesperson as "Manipulated media".
BJP's Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh said that his conversations with party MLAs revolved around development works and did not veer towards change of leadership in the state "even once by mistake"
The BJP decided to hold demonstrations across West Bengal next week in protest against the ruling "Trinamool Congress' violence" faced by its activists since assembly poll results were out
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is likely to visit his home state Gujarat for two days on June 20 and 21
Paras is Chirag's uncle and Lok Janshakti Party founder Ram Vilas Paswan's younger brother
Its endorsement of the G7's Open Societies Statement will give the world a larger say in human rights violations in the country
The Z-category VIP security cover of West Bengal politician and MLA Mukul Roy, who recently re-joined TMC after a brief stint with the BJP, has been withdrawn
Delhi BJP President Adesh Gupta was questioned for a couple of hours about party's oxygen vans launched during the second wave of Covid-19, the party said in a statement
His uncle, Pashupati Paras, took control of the LJP, ousted Chirag from the presidentship of the party and decamped with five MPs to the Janta Dal United (JDU), the very target of Chirag's attack