Powertrip: Why BJP won’t back CT Ravi and DMK explores new strategist
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Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for The News Minute and Newslaundry subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, Nidheesh MK and Pooja Prasanna.
In this week’s newsletter, we bring you new details on which party political consultancy firm Showtime is finally signing a deal with in Tamil Nadu. The BJP is caught in a bind in Karnataka after the CT Ravi episode and we found out how they plan to deal with the situation. CPI(M) Kerala wanted an image makeover but its politburo shot down plans of hiring an external agency. Why is the Congress opposing the appointment of Justice V Ramasubramanian as the new chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission?
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