How an image-fixated chief minister has bent the state’s media to his will

The CPI veteran known for his penchant for power has stepped down, but not before a surprise bid to change the party constitution

Mayawati is tracking this revolt anxiously, but she is also trying her best to play it down

For all its talk of a lack of regional structure in UP, the party is destroying the one that exists in neighbouring Uttarakhand

The Samajwadi Party’s emphatic win has revived an idea repeatedly proven untenable

Within the BSP, Jatav leaders have begun to question Behenji’s role at the top of a party they believe was formed for purposes she has ignored

Team Anna has questioned the veracity of ‘BJP’s Team B’, a report published in Open’s issue of 20 February. Here is our reply

The mask is off. Anna Hazare and his lieutenants are batting for the BJP

As sacked UP ministers go to other parties, allegations of corruption against the BSP lose their punch

Despite similar insistence by the PM, the FDI issue failed to see the Congress orchestrate a repeat of the Nuclear Deal triumph

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