M C Mary Kom gives Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu an impromptu boxing lesson at an interaction with Olympians and achievers from Manipur in Imphal, October 5, 2021.
Politicians bid farewell to Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu as India's vice-president at the G M C Balayogi auditorium in the Parliament house complex on Monday, August 8, 2022, evening.
Qatar may have led the Muslim world's angry protests over statements made by a Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson and a BJP leader, but Vice-President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu's two-day visit to Doha over the weekend went off largely without a hitch.
Naidu was an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad activist during the Emergency and was arrested and jailed.
A senior politician Naidu respected once tried to convince the firebrand student leader to quit the Jana Sangh.
He has served BJP in several capacities, will also be a saviour for the NDA in the Rajya Sabha, where they are still in minority.
Alternatively, the government may go in for a five-day session to blunt criticism that it was running away from debates.
Naidu was an ABVP activist during the Emergency and was arrested and jailed.
Bommarabettu Laxmijanardhana Santhosh is the only south Indian and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's representative in the BJP's senior decision-making hierarchy.
Justice V Gopala Gowda's name has been considered positively by the Trinamul Congress as well as the Left.
Bonhomie prevailed on day two of the 16th Lok Sabha, but one veteran leader was left out in the cold.
'The central learning of the day was that if the BJP leadership can cajole, coax and convince regional parties to vote for bills, it would not be a stretch to see the same votes cast in favour of the land bill,' a senior Congress leader from a northern state told Rediff.com
Naramalli Sivaprasad's over-the-top style of protest has become a unique tool to generate attention at the national level.
'The word equity means so much more to the dynamic world India today is in than the word 'socialism'.'
The focus is not only on governance but also to ensure that the BJP's political considerations are taken care of.
'...getting drenched in the rains, doing farm work, labour and sweating it out so that they can get their evening meals.' 'I want to tell them that this Ram Nath Kovind of Paraunkh village is going to Rashtrapati Bhavan as their representative.'
'The Gogoi episode can lead to our evolving a rational way to get better people who will head our checks and balances of democracy,' says former Chief Information Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi.
He was deliberately reducing Ansari to his Muslim identity by linking his career as a diplomat in the Arab world and educationist and his reflections on intolerance with his religion.
Modi's absence from an event to mark the centenary of a definitive moment in Indian history puzzles Utkarsh Mishra.
'The chair is a referee in a match, whether this side is playing better or that side is playing worse is no concern of the chair.'
'A mother, a farmer and cattle owner, all have valuable knowledge, but academia has failed to acknowledge their wisdom.'
'The youth associated with this movement were extremely talented.' 'But I personally believe violence cannot change anything in the world.'
At an online book release event, former vice president Hamid Ansari lays to rest the controversies surrounding his tenure.
'Prevention plus vaccination is what is going to take us into better territory by September or October.'
