Author: Rohan Dua

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One of the most versatile journalists who has reported and broken almost every big national story since 2004 in India. He has reported extensively on politics, counter-terrorism, elections and multi-million dollar scams. In his 16 years in journalism, Dua has worked in Reuters, NewsX, Indian Express and The Times of India.

CAMPAIGN TRAIL: In Shamli, BJP’s Rana Bites Into Sugarcane, Asks Akhilesh How’s Biryani As Son Feasts Over 97 % Marks

Thana Bhawan (SHAMLI): Walking briskly on Delhi-Shamli highway, amid a shower of marigold by his supporters, BJP’s poster boy for Hindutva and Yogi government’s sugarcane development minister Suresh Rana doesn’t mince his words on religious appeasement of his party’s principal opponent. This, as he staunchly defends his role in 2013-14 Muzaffarnagar riots during Akhilesh regime […]

UP Polls: In Wild West’s Shamli,  “Big Genitalia” Risque Still Shudders Them; Muslims Too Pin Gaddars In ’80-20′

THANA BHAWAN (SHAMLI, UP): At a roundabout near Hedgewar Chowk in Thana Bhawan — the constituency of Yogi Adityanath government’s sugarcane development minister and two-time MLA Suresh Rana in Uttar Pradesh’s notorious Shamli region — Manoj Kucchal, a retail shop owner, shudders as he recalls frequent distasteful innudendoes made on women by hawkers, real estate […]

Q&A – Sidhu Sought CM Face From Rahul, He Must Respect Decision In His Or Other’s Favour: Channi

In the middle of election campaigning, and at a time, when he has locked horns with his bete noire within Congress — in another sign of growing fissures and internal wrangling in the party leadership in Punjab, The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua caught up with CM Charanjit Channi at his maternal home Makrauna […]

Q&A – Will Go Back To Our Professions, Travel If We Don’t Get Our Chance: Sidhu’s Wife On 2022 Polls, CM Face

Would it be the end of political road for Navjot Singh Sidhu and namesake wife if he is not chosen to lead Congress this assembly elections after being wooed by the Gandhi family in 2017 ,20 days before then polls?  The mercurial ex cricketer has had a bumpy ride on a tough wicket with bouncers […]

Affluent Punjab Netas Build Wealth, Palatial Homes, Question Our Doles, Call Them Freebies: Kejriwal (Part-2)

As the battle for Punjab heats up, The New Indian‘s Executive Editor Rohan Dua catches up with Aam Aadmi Party’s chief Arvind Kejriwal and the party’s CM candidate Bhagwant Mann. Kejriwal and Mann come clean on a gamut of issues — their personal camaraderie, their political opponents, Navjot Singh Sidhu, and the prospects of their party in the upcoming […]

One Party Tainted On Drugs, Other On Mining, Ours Is With Clean CM Face: Kejriwal

As the battle for Punjab heats up, The New Indian‘s Executive Editor Rohan Dua catches up with Aam Aadmi Party’s chief Arvind Kejriwal and the party’s CM candidate Bhagwant Mann. Kejriwal and Mann come clean on a gamut of issues — their personal camaraderie, their political opponents, Navjot Singh Sidhu, and the prospects of their […]

BJP May Have 3 dy CMs, Dalit Face Could Be Our Third: Baby Maurya In Agra

Making her return to active politics, former Uttarakhand governor and Agra Rural (SC) candidate Baby Rani Maurya looks at ease as she travels between her Cantonment residence and Nainana Jat on Gwalior Road in this west UP district known for the Taj. She is one of the rare politicians in India, who after serving as […]

AMU Dishonoured  1929 Land Lease, Will Ensure Jats Back BJP In Polls For New Varsity By Modi, Yogi: King Mahendra Singh’s Great-Grandson

ALIGARH/VRINDAVAN: Moving between Aligarh, Hathras and Vrindavan, Charat Pratap Singh, looks at consummate ease as he tries to galvanise support among the Jats and patrons of King Mahendra Pratap Singh, the freedom fighter who leased a plot, called Tikonia Park in 1929 where Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) stands today. Charat is the fourth-generation Jat scion […]

UP Polls: In Mathura, Peda Makers, Patrons Want Dash Of ‘Saffron’, Milk Crime-Free Trade

MATHURA/VRINDAVAN: Ambling into the winding lanes of Chowk Bazar in Mathura — the land of Krishna Janmbhoomi — the team of The New Indian reaches the factory where aroma of boiling milk, saffron, cardamom greets with hundreds of halwais squatted before the flames. In a few hours, as milk turns into khoya, which further becomes […]

No More Bijli On Eid Alone, Diwali Too; To Use PM’s Kashi Model To Expand Krishna Site: Shrikant In Mathura

A true blue Brajwasi and RSS man at heart, Uttar Pradesh’s energy minister Shrikant Sharma is one of the dynamic leaders in the BJP government in the state.  An MLA from Mathura, Shrikant spent his childhood in Govardhan’s Gantholi village before he went on to study at Delhi University’s PGDAV College in 1991 and became […]

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