Left, Right & Centre

On Left, Right & Centre, Lok Janshakti Party lawmaker Chirag Paswan denied any tension in the ruling Bihar alliance. His comments came after Union Minister Giriraj Singh took at dig at BJP leaders and allies attending an iftar party. He said that Giriraj Singh keeps making such comments and that they shouldn't be blown out of proportion.

On Left, Right and Centre, a health check of India's alliances - are they now growing weak at the hands of a brute majority or do they have a fighting chance as we go along.

Home Minister Amit Shah holds a high-level meeting at his home ministry office. Important business discussed but questions raised whether the home ministry is now a new power centre? Is this the right assessment or are commentators reading a bit too much?

The "Stop Hindi Imposition" agitation shows no signs of ebbing, despite the centre's best attempts at offering clarification. The new draft has added ambiguity to the controversy. In the new draft National Education Policy (NEP) 2019, the reference to Hindi has been removed in the controversial clause. So we ask - is Hindi imposition fear or a reality?

A sacred chant for the Hindus has now become the big poll slogan for the BJP in West Bengal. We found out how the BJP's 'Jai Shri Ram' campaign has gone down with the people of Bengal and whether it will continue to bring dividends in the 2021 Vidhan Sabha elections as well.

The alliance between Uttar Pradesh rivals-turned-partners Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav may be all but over, after their disappointing national election performance. Here's a look why Mayawati, a three-time chief minister, dumped Akhilesh Yadav within 10 days of the poll drubbing

Guests invited to an Iftar party hosted by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad were 'aggressively' turned away by Pakistani officials on Saturday evening, a top Indian diplomat said. The Pakistani officials surrounded Hotel Serena, the venue of the Iftar party, and forced hundreds of guests to turn back.

First, it was Pragya Thakur, then it was BJP MLA Usha Thakur, who said Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse was a patriot. Now it's a Maharashtra IAS officer who has landed in trouble over her tweet that appeared to be questioning the celebration of Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. The officer, Nidhi Chaudhari, has deleted her tweet and said that it was sarcastic. Tonight on Left Right and Centre we ask, can we take her statement at face value or does this now establish a pattern?

Sonia Gandhi has been chosen as the chairperson of the Congress's newly elected parliamentarians at the meeting of the party's parliamentary committee this morning. Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh proposed her name. The suspense is now over whom the chairperson would name as the leader of the party in parliament - her son Rahul Gandhi, who wants to step down as the party chief, or some other leader. Tonight on Left Right and Centre, NDTV's Sanket Upadhyay spoke to Rasheed Kidwai, author of '24 Akbar Road: A Short History Of The People Behind The Fall And Rise Of The Congress', as he tried to decode if the Congress will be able to revive itself.

The new national education policy, intended to introduce educational reforms in the country, has snowballed into a massive political controversy. The proposed reform that talks about introducing a three-language system in education, has kicked up a storm in Tamil Nadu, with civil society activists, Twitter users and politicians viewing this as imposition of Hindi. The DMK, DMDK, Vaiko's party and even the ruling AIADMK is upset with the draft. The big question is, how would the BJP get affected by the controversy in the southern state.