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The Congress had not even healed after losing grounds in Punjab, in yet another blow, the Congress has now suffered a massive setback in Northeast state Meghalaya where 12 out of its 17 Congress MLAs, including the state’s former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma joined Mamata Banerjee’s TMC (Trinamool Congress). 

Back in 2018 elections, Conrad Sangma from National People’s Party (NPP) formed the Government with the support of UDP & BJP. The Congress had emerged as the single largest party in the 2018 assembly election with 21 seats. The NPP was the second closest securing 19 seats. However, it was the NPP that formed the government, because smaller parties like the BJP, which could win only two seats in the Meghalaya Assembly, followed by the United Democratic Party, which won six, and the People’s Democratic Front, with four seats, all supported the candidature of Conrad Sangma as Chief Minister. Hence, in 2018 six political parties formed Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) coalition and formed the new government with NPP stand tall with 41 seats whereas Congress was the strongest opposition with 17 seats.

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Meghalaya is already a beautiful state overwhelmed with the love of Mother Nature but the stunning shade of cherry pink have added much more to its beauty like a breathtaking painting.  Shillong is the only city in India that hosts the Cherry Blossom Festival since 2016. Cherry blossom is a symbolic flower of spring, a time of renewal, and the fleeting nature of life. The bloom marks the beginning of autumn season in Northeast India enchanting the beauty of the region.

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It is a welcome development that the Assam State Cabinet has approved restructuring the long over-due new school education on the lines of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 announced by the Modi government last year. The decision to this effect was taken during the State Cabinet Meeting held on November 24 at Bongaigaon under the Chairmanship of the Chief Minister Dr Himanta Biswa Sarma. Notably, based on the National Education Policy, the new academic year in the State will be launched from 1st April, 2023.

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Does the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on repealing all three farm reform laws with a profound apology to the farmers would pose a setback to the Central Government’s subsequent reforms? In India, where a large number of farmers are either small or marginal, what the nation needed was breathing time to allow farms to consolidate and provide the rest of the economy adequate time to generate employment to absorb excess farm labour.  Interestingly, the Prime Minister chose the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh to make his announcement. Does that look like a tactical retreat or a meek surrender and could there be any snowballing effect on his decision, politically, as well as economically?

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During the Nehruvian era, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was an easy target, a kind of universal whipping boy.  The book aims at dispelling the wrong notions associated with the RSS. It is not just a roadmap of the RSS; it is also a revealing book written by a person who knows this organization from within and therefore it has greater authenticity and credibility. It is largely inspired by the visions of RSS and partly based on the firsthand experiences of Sunil Ambekar. It is free from bias for it gives only facts and facts not of the Gradgrindian (Charles Dickens) type rather those that were "half hidden from the eye".

The book underpins the process through which the RSS is recontextualising age old civilisational thoughts in an ever-changing contemporary society. It depicts the 94 years of its journey through “thunderstorm and rain” and that it has not deviated from its goal to make the country strong.

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