Ashhar has done his masters in mass communication from MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Has a journalistic experience of nearly seven years, focusing on political reportage. Has worked with varied television channels which include Times Now, News X and Headlines Today, covering the Congress as well the UPA government
An array of emotions swept the Congress rank and file when Rahul Gandhi, or RG as he is known, was anointed the Vice President of the AICC, in the Congress Working Committee meeting in Jaipur. The youngsters in the party were elated while the ‘old guards’ got emotional. The sentiment [...]
With the recent gang rape of Delhi medical student, numerous questions have risen about the capital’s safety issue. The Delhi Police maintains law and order in the city. It reports to the Lieutenant Governor LG of Delhi. The LG reports to the Ministry of Home Affairs. That is how the [...]
As the winter session of Parliament started Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh introduced the new group of his Council of Ministers to both the Houses of Parliament. There were relatively junior ministers, holding important portfolios, trying to adjust themselves on the high table. The last Cabinet reshuffle of the United [...]
These days whenever the Parliament Session is around the corner, what’s buzzing in political circles is whether the incumbent UPA government has the magical 272 number or not. In order to stay in power, the government should have 272 members in the Lok Sabha to constitute the majority in the House. [...]
The final reshuffle of the UPA government has thrown up interesting issues. One issue which comes to mind almost immediately is: has the government given up on the creation of the new state of Telangana? In the recently concluded reshuffle, major gainers were the MPs from Andhra Pradesh. The tally [...]
The new showstopper ruling the political circuit is Arvind Kejriwal, who currently is having a problem coping with dissent. The recent case here is that of Annie Kohli, the woman who barged in to Kejriwal’s press conference demanding answers about his new avatar. Kohli, a 55-year-old woman from Mumbai was [...]
Two Lok Sabha by-elections were held last week at Jangipur and Tehri, subsequently after which the results were declared. The Congress won one seat while the other seats went to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Even though this does not alter the seat equations currently prevailing in Lok Sabha, it [...]
After the high drama within the highly publicised India Against Corruption (IAC) surfaced, the so-called ‘Team Anna’ eventually disintegrated. Essentially, the thrust of a new enterprise always focuses on embarking on a positive note. The very foundation of this movement lacked this core ingredient. While anti-graft-activist-turned-politician Arvind Kejriwal made his [...]
Amongst other issues ailing the United Progressive Alliance – II government, a sense of an inner divide between senior leaders in the party and the young guns is emerging as an eminent pattern. The Congress top brass is unhappy with the government and its leaders as they have failed in [...]
Every single meeting of the Congress has an incessantly significant underlying message from party president Sonia Gandhi: focus on the needs of the aam aadmi and spread the good work done by the government in implementing its proposed policies. Every such occasion just reasserts the rhetoric that the party should [...]
The Congress is strategising its game plan to counter the ongoing crisis, but this is something it has been executing masterfully for decades. Whenever the Congress has been at the helm of affairs, it has always managed to pull through the crisis. No Congress-led Government has ever lost a trust [...]
