‘2024 poll a personal, political & moral win’: Activist Yogendra Yadav
5 months, 3 weeks ago

‘2024 poll a personal, political & moral win’: Activist Yogendra Yadav

New Indian Express  

CHENNAI: Dubbing the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as a “controlled plebiscite”, prominent activist Yogendra Yadav on Thursday said India would have gotten a new Constitution if the BJP had gotten one more seat than its 2019 tally. Reading the implications of verdict 2024’ at the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai. A resounding mandate for the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2024 would have given them the popular support to dismantle the existing constitution and rewrite it, the activist said and added that before 2024, India was moving towards a “competitive authoritarianism” mixed with “non-theological majoritarianism”. It was a personal, political and moral defeat since the BJP failed to get even 250 seats,” the former psephologist said.

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Hindustan Times  

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The Hindu  

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ABP News  

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Live Mint  

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Live Mint  

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India Today  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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Live Mint  

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Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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India TV News  

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New Indian Express  

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Rahul Gandhi 'blackmailed' voters with fake narrative: Athawale on BJP's reverses in LS polls
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Rahul Gandhi 'blackmailed' voters with fake narrative: Athawale on BJP's reverses in LS polls

New Indian Express  

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Assembly by polls 2024: an indication of a new anti-incumbency

The Hindu  

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The verdict of 2024, its amplified message
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The verdict of 2024, its amplified message

The Hindu  

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The Quint  

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6 months ago

‘Modi govt will fall by August’: RJD chief Lalu Prasad tells party workers

Hindustan Times  

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6 months, 1 week ago

PM Modi says people rejected propaganda, voted for performance in Rajya Sabha speech

The Hindu  

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2024 Lok Sabha election results ended communal politics: Akhilesh Yadav

Hindustan Times  

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Was the Ram Mandir a voting issue in the 2024 LS polls?

The Hindu  

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Letters to the Editor (July 12, 2024)

The Hindu  

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

INTERVIEW | ‘After polls, BJP’s growth in Tamil Nadu will only be upwards’

New Indian Express  

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UP Bypoll 2024: NDA vs I.N.D.I.A In Uttar Pradesh, Is It A Tough Fight Between CM Yogi & Akhilesh Yadav?
6 months, 2 weeks ago

UP Bypoll 2024: NDA vs I.N.D.I.A In Uttar Pradesh, Is It A Tough Fight Between CM Yogi & Akhilesh Yadav?

ABP News  

BJP suffered a huge setback in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections 2024. By-elections are to be held on 10 assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh, because 9 seats have become vacant after some MLAs of India Alliance and NDA became MPs. Like the Lok Sabha elections, there is a possibility of a tough fight between the ruling party and …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

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The Quint  

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Top 10 questions that BJP is looking at in its Lok Sabha election debacle review in Uttar Pradesh. Full details here
6 months, 3 weeks ago

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Live Mint  

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

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Hindustan Times  

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6 months, 4 weeks ago

Voters speak: The electoral verdict has a clear message for the NDA government

Live Mint  

Results of the recently concluded general election for the Lok Sabha have given the National Democratic Alliance a clear mandate to form the government for a third successive term, although there is also a message for it in the sharply reduced seats it now holds. Voting preferences of the electorate depend on many factors and any analysis of the election …

Karnataka Election Results 2024: Explaining How BJP-JD(S) Alliance Swept Polls, Winning 19 Lok Sabha Seats
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Karnataka Election Results 2024: Explaining How BJP-JD(S) Alliance Swept Polls, Winning 19 Lok Sabha Seats

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 11, 2024 16:49 IST - 8 MINS READ The tryst between the voters of Karnataka and the BJP that commenced two decades ago with the Lok Sabha election of 2004 continued in the 2024 Lok Sabha election as well. Of the 28 seats in Karnataka, the BJP won 18, 19, 17, and 25 seats in the Lok …

INTERVIEW| NDA government won't last five years, says Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi
7 months ago

INTERVIEW| NDA government won't last five years, says Congress leader Gaurav Gogoi

New Indian Express  

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FROM THE SIDELINES | Results of the 2024 election is a seismic moment for Muslims that restores faith in democracy.
7 months ago

FROM THE SIDELINES | Results of the 2024 election is a seismic moment for Muslims that restores faith in democracy.

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 10, 2024 15:56 IST - 7 MINS READ “Love has illuminated my body My inner self has brightened My words now have the fragrance of musk” —Kabir, 15th-century poet-philosopher from Varanasi In the past decade, there appeared to be no limits to the exclusion-cum-violence, real and psychological, against India’s Muslims that the Narendra Modi regime and its …

BJP leaders see multiple factors for decline in vote share in 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Dakshina Kannada
7 months ago

BJP leaders see multiple factors for decline in vote share in 2024 Lok Sabha polls in Dakshina Kannada

The Hindu  

Dissecting reasons for decrease in its vote share in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Dakshina Kannada, the BJP leaders highlight a common thread of the Social Democratic Party of India remaining away from the fray, among other factors. Captain Ganesh Karnik, former MLC who was the BJP in-charge for Lok Sabha elections in Dakshina Kannada, said that the SDPI …

Election Results 2024 | Comparing vote shares of Congress and BJP shows Annamalai’s political immaturity: Selvaperunthagai
7 months ago

Election Results 2024 | Comparing vote shares of Congress and BJP shows Annamalai’s political immaturity: Selvaperunthagai

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu Congress Committee president K. Selvaperunthagai on Saturday, June 8, 2024, criticised BJP State president K. Annamalai for comparing the vote share of the Congress with the BJP in Tamil Nadu following the recently-held Lok Sabha elections. In a statement, he said: “Comparing the vote share of the Congress, which contested in nine seats, with the BJP, which contested …

Letters to The Editor — June 8, 2024
7 months ago

Letters to The Editor — June 8, 2024

The Hindu  

The message of 2024 A truly federal structure should be evolved to avoid any possibility of majoritarian or dictatorial governance and tendencies in India in the future. India has had a narrow and providential escape from such a situation, thanks to an alert electorate and experience of the central governance of the last 10 years. V. Rajan, Thiruvananthapuram The long …

View: Why PM Modi's third term is historic, and why Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar won't dump BJP?
7 months ago

View: Why PM Modi's third term is historic, and why Chandrababu Naidu and Nitish Kumar won't dump BJP?

Hindustan Times  

A day after an underwhelming electoral result for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his cabinet colleagues at Lok Kalyan Marg office and delivered the bottom line that the NDA was going to form the government at the Centre for the third time. Narendra Modi being felicitated by party leaders JP Nadda and Amit Shah, TDP chief N Chandrababu …

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