Shikha Mukerjee | After Gujarat, can BJP beat law of diminishing returns?
2 years, 1 month ago

Shikha Mukerjee | After Gujarat, can BJP beat law of diminishing returns?

Deccan Chronicle  

It was an outstanding and unprecedented triumph for Prime Minister Narendra Modi; the results of the state Assembly elections in Gujarat, read alone, reaffirm the popularity and invincibility of the BJP’s superstar. In the two other places that also voted in the last round of elections in 2022, not only did Mr Modi’s appeal fail to galvanise voters, but in Himachal Pradesh voters actually disdainfully rejected the BJP’s appeal to change their habit of booting out the party in power and voting in the Opposition. He also made an unequivocal appeal for voters in both places to vote for him, personally; he said the “lotus” means “it is the BJP and that Modi ji has come to you”. The mixed message of the elections is that Mr Modi’s appeal and perhaps that of the BJP appears to have reached the point of diminishing returns.

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Election results: Politicians react as Mahayuti wins big in Maharashtra, JMM in Jharkhand
Top News
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Election results: Politicians react as Mahayuti wins big in Maharashtra, JMM in Jharkhand

Live Mint  

The counting of votes for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections took place on Saturday — with the Mahayuti alliance and the JMM winning the polls. Here's what political parties say about the crucial elections On Maharashtra elections, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut said on Friday, "The results will be out tomorrow. Exuding confidence, Jharkhand BJP leader Babulal Marandi said, …

Elections in 2 Indian states are seen as a test of Prime Minister Modi’s popularity
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Elections in 2 Indian states are seen as a test of Prime Minister Modi’s popularity

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Millions of people are voting in state elections in Maharashtra, India’s western industrial hub, and the mineral-rich eastern province of Jharkhand on Wednesday, in a test of the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party and its regional partners. After suffering a setback in national elections, the BJP regained momentum in October as it won …

India’s Economic Powerhouse Seeks Stability in State Elections
1 month, 3 weeks ago

India’s Economic Powerhouse Seeks Stability in State Elections

Live Mint  

-- India’s western state of Maharashtra holds local elections Wednesday, a vote that not only tests the support for Prime Narendra Modi and his party but that could have far-reaching consequences for a region that drives the nation’s economy. About 96.4 million registered voters in the state — home of the country’s financial capital Mumbai — will head to the …

Shikha Mukerjee | Mismatched vocabularies in Maha and Jharkhand battle
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Mismatched vocabularies in Maha and Jharkhand battle

Deccan Chronicle  

Following the rigmarole of politicians pitching for votes has never been as befuddling as it is in this round of state Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Jharkhand. The BJP’s difficulties are further complicated by the direct and indirect criticism of the “Batange-Katange” rhetoric voiced by Ajit Pawar and chief minister Eknath Shinde, the icons of the other side who split …

Shikha Mukerjee | Census, caste & citizenship: Spin to win in endless cycle
2 months, 1 week ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Census, caste & citizenship: Spin to win in endless cycle

Deccan Chronicle  

The obviously leaked stories about the launch in 2025 of the long-delayed Census and the move to keep everyone guessing on whether the exercise will include a caste-based enumeration are guaranteed to rekindle the public’s interest and rebuild the BJP’s and its helmsman Narendra Modi’s political capital. The timing of the leaks suggests that the politically astute Mr Modi and …

The India Coalition's Narrative: A Battle for Votes in Maharashtra and Jharkhand
2 months, 2 weeks ago

The India Coalition's Narrative: A Battle for Votes in Maharashtra and Jharkhand

Deccan Chronicle  

The Maharashtra and Jharkhand elections are about how the INDIA coalition reads, implements and performs on the basis of the Lok Sabha verdict and the 2019 state Assembly results. The contest is between two coalitions, regular teams that are playing against each other. Each member of each team is equally critical to pulling off a victory or delivering a defeat. …

Haryana's Hindu Dominance Fuels BJP's Momentum, While Jammu's Results Underscore the Rise of Hindu Nationalism
3 months ago

Haryana's Hindu Dominance Fuels BJP's Momentum, While Jammu's Results Underscore the Rise of Hindu Nationalism

Hindustan Times  

Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir election results mark a watershed moment in Indian politics. The BJP's return to power in Haryana, a state with a rich historical context, is a significant victory for the party. The results also dealt a blow to the Congress, which had been hoping to regain its footing in the state. The assembly election results have …

Modi to address BJP workers in poll-bound Jharkhand on October, second visit in 17 days
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Modi to address BJP workers in poll-bound Jharkhand on October, second visit in 17 days

The Hindu  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound Jharkhand for a second time in 17 days and address the closing ceremony of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s ‘Parivartan Yatra’ in Hazaribagh on Wednesday. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Mr. Modi will launch the Dharti Aaba Janjatiya Gram Utkarsh Abhiyan with a total outlay of ₹79,150 crore. “In order to boost the …

Election Results 2024: Four reasons why BJP’s plan backfired in Uttar Pradesh
7 months, 1 week ago

Election Results 2024: Four reasons why BJP’s plan backfired in Uttar Pradesh

Times of India  

For over a decade, Sanjeev Singh has worked with various news channels as a field reporter. Ticket distribution gone wrong: The BJP’s top brass’s decision to steamroll their candidates despite opposition from locals and RSS cadre also cost them heavily on 10-15 seats. The simmering discontent of the Rajput community in western UP coupled with INDIA alliance following BJP’s strategy …

Shikha Mukerjee | BJP dominance in political discourse sees adjustments
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Shikha Mukerjee | BJP dominance in political discourse sees adjustments

Deccan Chronicle  

Intriguingly, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s dominance over the political discourse by establishing the frames of meaning and the order or even disorder of things, including interpretations and contexts, seems to be undergoing a not-so-subtle change. In recent public speeches and in one-on-one interviews, the two major campaigners and masterminds of the BJP, Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, have been at …

Mohan Guruswamy | Elections 2024: Modi up a steep & slippery slope?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Mohan Guruswamy | Elections 2024: Modi up a steep & slippery slope?

Deccan Chronicle  

Be it a democracy or a dictatorship, governments are almost always changed by throwing out the incumbent. In that decade India’s GDP grew from $721 billion to $2.03 trillion, or an increase of 182 per cent; while in 2024 it grew to $3.75 trillion from $2.03 trillion, or by 86.6 per cent. The ILO’s “India Employment Report 2024” paints a …

Shikha Mukerjee | Poll promises vs delivery amid rise in polarisation
8 months, 4 weeks ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Poll promises vs delivery amid rise in polarisation

Deccan Chronicle  

Elections serve many purposes. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections about to get underway will be a great war, of words, principles and agendas, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will face the toughest challenge of his political life. By making purity and pollution in terms of religious practice central to the Indian election, Mr Modi’s counter to the Opposition is …

CSDS-Lokniti 2024 pre-poll survey | There is no clear and close challenger to the BJP this time. ‘Ifs and buts’ apply
9 months ago

CSDS-Lokniti 2024 pre-poll survey | There is no clear and close challenger to the BJP this time. ‘Ifs and buts’ apply

The Hindu  

On June 4, 2024, the day of counting of votes of the Lok Sabha elections, will India witness anti-incumbency? We show that voters’ assessment of the government’s performance combined with the impact of the leadership factor may help the BJP weather the storm that economic distress may cause. And perhaps more significantly, it is to the BJP’s credit that even …

Shikha Mukerjee | It’s a matter of choice: Modi magic versus Modi baggage
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Shikha Mukerjee | It’s a matter of choice: Modi magic versus Modi baggage

Deccan Chronicle  

The 2024 Lok Sabha schedule has set up the finish line, June 4, when the votes will be counted and the results will be known. In 2024, Mr Modi as the unparalleled helmsman and vote catcher, the BJP as a vast and micro-managed organisation and the Sangh Parivar as the nerve centre of the right-wing Hindu Rashtra-Akhand Bharat ideology will …

Shikha Mukerjee | INDIA gets set, preparing for liftoff; BJP gets jitters
1 year, 4 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | INDIA gets set, preparing for liftoff; BJP gets jitters

Deccan Chronicle  

After the successful meeting of the INDIA parties in Mumbai, which had ended with a slogan: “Judega Bharat, Jeetega INDIA”; the 29-party INDIA collective is ready to lift off. This is not to argue that INDIA as an alliance is set to defeat the BJP and oust Narendra Modi from power should a snap Lok Sabha election be called by …

May, PMs & 2014: How Modi's Rise To Power Marked The End of 'Nehruvian India’
1 year, 7 months ago

May, PMs & 2014: How Modi's Rise To Power Marked The End of 'Nehruvian India’

The Quint  

First, the authors would like to use electoral data to dispel a myth revolving around Narendra Modi both among his critics and fans: that he is a towering colossus in the Indian political landscape the way Nehru and Indira Gandhi were. Yet, his electoral track record is not too great compared to that of India’s first prime minister. The Congress …

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress' main challenge is burden of expectations
1 year, 7 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress' main challenge is burden of expectations

Deccan Chronicle  

After its decisive victory in Karnataka, the Congress Party now has to live up to the expectations it has raised. The win is as much an unequivocal verdict against Narendra Modi’s vision of “One Party, One Nation, One Leader” and the Bharatiya Janata Party’s conviction that its organisation can convert anti-incumbency into a renewed mandate, as it is an endorsement …

Karnataka: Why Modi suffered ‘decisive’ poll defeat in key Indian state
1 year, 7 months ago

Karnataka: Why Modi suffered ‘decisive’ poll defeat in key Indian state

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Rahul Gandhi, whose countrywide “Unite India” march has been …

BJP Seeking Votes in PM Modi's Name in Karnataka, Cong Going 'Vocal for Local': Jairam Ramesh
1 year, 8 months ago

BJP Seeking Votes in PM Modi's Name in Karnataka, Cong Going 'Vocal for Local': Jairam Ramesh

News 18  

Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Sunday said that while the BJP was seeking votes in the Karnataka Assembly polls in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Congress had adopted the PM’s “vocal for local” slogan and was raising issues of the people of the state. In an interview with PTI, Ramesh said Karnataka, after four years of …

Shikha Mukerjee | India's political topography starts to look a bit different
1 year, 8 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | India's political topography starts to look a bit different

Deccan Chronicle  

As hard as the Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party may try and convince the masses that the more things seem to change, the more they remain the same, the inevitability of change and its effects on the political topography of India are undeniable. Mr Kharge’s letter to Mr Modi demanding that the postponed Census of 2021 be immediately done and …

Democracy is not at risk, it’s dynastic politics that is in danger as PM Modi defeated dynastic parties, says Amit Shah in U.P.
1 year, 9 months ago

Democracy is not at risk, it’s dynastic politics that is in danger as PM Modi defeated dynastic parties, says Amit Shah in U.P.

The Hindu  

Home Minister Amit Shah has attacked the Opposition parties for disrupting the Parliament, saying that reality is that as dynastic politics and castiest mindset is in danger, the Opposition is creating a myth that Indian democracy is at risk. “We have come here with a resolution to make Narendra Modi the Prime Minister again in 2024,” said Mr. Shah. The …

Shikha Mukerjee | Time and tide will not wait for the Opposition to unite
1 year, 9 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Time and tide will not wait for the Opposition to unite

Deccan Chronicle  

Opposition unity is a work in progress. The initiative by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to visit Bihar and then West Bengal is yet another exercise in consolidating an anti-BJP core of political leaders, not all of whom are as rabidly anti-Congress as Trinamul Congress founder and leader Mamata Banerjee. Even if he did not publicly endorse Mamata Banerjee’s frontal …

Shikha Mukerjee | How the three-shell trick works in India’s politics
2 years ago

Shikha Mukerjee | How the three-shell trick works in India’s politics

Deccan Chronicle  

India’s political theatre is tricky enough to negotiate. Through 2023, the most fiercely monitored leaders will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, in his new avatar, after walking and talking his way across India. In 2023, these two narratives — Bharat Jodo versus Bharat Todo — will confront each other in nine separate state elections across India, from …

Gujarat as a model: The Hindu Editorial on why BJP should shift to more empathetic governance
2 years, 1 month ago

Gujarat as a model: The Hindu Editorial on why BJP should shift to more empathetic governance

The Hindu  

Bhupendra Patel, who on Monday took oath as Gujarat Chief Minister for a second term, is the third person to succeed Narendra Modi in the State. Mr. Patel enjoys the complete confidence of Mr. Modi, whose popularity won the day for the Bharatiya Janata Party in the recent Assembly elections. Gujarat continues to attract investment, with the proactive help of …

Modi Magic Makes All The Difference: Explaining Why BJP Won Gujarat And Lost Himachal - News18
2 years, 1 month ago

Modi Magic Makes All The Difference: Explaining Why BJP Won Gujarat And Lost Himachal - News18

News 18  

There is never a dull election in India. BJP’s victory in Gujarat is a testimony for Narendra Modi’s super-human popularity and phenomenal emotional connect with the people of his state. There was a similar crisis of leadership in the neighbouring state of Uttarakhand, but Narendra Modi and Amit Shah could salvage the situation by a last-minute change of the Chief …

Polls Apart: Will BJP's Grand Gujarat Win And Congress's Himachal High Point Sway 2023 Karnataka Election?
2 years, 1 month ago

Polls Apart: Will BJP's Grand Gujarat Win And Congress's Himachal High Point Sway 2023 Karnataka Election?

News 18  

Winning Gujarat will work as a morale booster for the Bharatiya Janata Party cadre in Karnataka feels chief minister Basavaraj Bommai, while pinning his hopes for a second term for the ruling outfit in the southern state. State elections are fought on local issues and a win or loss in another state is no indicator of how Karnataka will vote, …

DC Edit | Himalayan win for Congress
2 years, 1 month ago

DC Edit | Himalayan win for Congress

Deccan Chronicle  

The clear mandate the Congress has bagged in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections has many reasons, but the most important one is the potential the party still has in states where it is directly pitted against the BJP. Also, the state’s pattern of alternating between the saffron party and the grand old party must have contributed to the latter’s return …

Indian PM Modi’s BJP scores landslide win in Gujarat state
2 years, 1 month ago

Indian PM Modi’s BJP scores landslide win in Gujarat state

Al Jazeera  

The BJP retained its 27-year control of Gujarat with a commanding election victory but lost power in Himachal Pradesh. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has scored a landslide victory in the western state of Gujarat, election results showed on Thursday, in a strong performance ahead of the general elections due in 2024. The Hindu …

Shikha Mukerjee | Nitish’s Bihar ‘coup’ to set off tremors across India
2 years, 5 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Nitish’s Bihar ‘coup’ to set off tremors across India

Deccan Chronicle  

What Nitish Kumar pulled off in Bihar through a flawlessly executed political manoeuvre against the BJP and its top leadership is like a thunderbolt out of the blue. Nitish Kumar is the last of the politically active and physically robust survivors of the Mandal versus Kamandal war of the 1990s.Through all the years of his alliance with the BJP in …

can the congress pose a serious challenge to the bjp in 2024
2 years, 6 months ago

can the congress pose a serious challenge to the bjp in 2024

The Hindu  

In its 137 years of existence, the Congress has dominated Indian history, but never looked more sidelined than it does today. Explained | The Congress party’s internal administration A diminishing footprint Till Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party, no non-Congress Prime Minister had ever completed a full term in office. In the BJP, the Congress …

Shikha Mukerjee | Silence can’t be an option: Why Modi must leash ‘fringe’ bhakts
2 years, 7 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Silence can’t be an option: Why Modi must leash ‘fringe’ bhakts

Deccan Chronicle  

The decision of the BJP’s most popular leader with high approval ratings from the RSS, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to stay silent, for a week, on the deliberately provocative and obviously incendiary remarks about Prophet Mohammad by a party national spokesperson on television is a signal. The world and India is astounded by the apparently sincere avowals of the Narendra …

PM Modi has 'tremendous vigour': Shashi Tharoor credits him for Uttar Pradesh win
2 years, 10 months ago

PM Modi has 'tremendous vigour': Shashi Tharoor credits him for Uttar Pradesh win

India TV News  

Highlights Tharoor said that PM Modi has done some works which are very impressive, especially politically Tharoor addedthat he was surprised over political analysts describing the UP results as a 'foregone The BJP under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath retained power in Uttar Pradesh, winning 255 seats Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him a …

Anand K. Sahay | Do poll results indicate a basic transformation of India’s polity?
2 years, 10 months ago

Anand K. Sahay | Do poll results indicate a basic transformation of India’s polity?

Deccan Chronicle  

The BJP’s spectacular results in these Assembly elections -- barring in Punjab, where it has never really had any serious influence -- will possibly go down as a special landmark for the party, and a reference point for India. This means that the psychological appeasement of the country’s majority religious community - another name for majority communalism - now appears …

'Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai': Shivraj Says PM Led BJP to Poll Wins, Rahul Sealing Gandhi's Aim of Congress End
2 years, 10 months ago

'Modi Hai Toh Mumkin Hai': Shivraj Says PM Led BJP to Poll Wins, Rahul Sealing Gandhi's Aim of Congress End

News 18  

There is immense respect among the people for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan while commenting on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s stunning election victories in four states with the results trickling in on Thursday. “Modi hai toh mumkin hai,” said Chouhan, repeating a popular BJP slogan. “Merely saying the name of the Prime Minister, …

Verdict is Out: UP Fuels Modi-Yogi Double Engine to Power India in 2024
2 years, 10 months ago

Verdict is Out: UP Fuels Modi-Yogi Double Engine to Power India in 2024

News 18  

Just 5 feet and 4 inches tall, Yogi Adityanath has carried on his shoulders the dreams of millions and the aspirations of the world’s oldest civilization. The BJP’s victory in Uttar Pradesh, therefore, bears important takeaways for both Yogi and national politics at large. No doubt the Modi wave and the party’s well-oiled machinery remain ever-present in Uttar Pradesh, but …

Amit Shah To News18: BJP’s Biggest Achievement In UP Is That Politics Of Performance Has Replaced Criminalisation Of Politics
2 years, 10 months ago

Amit Shah To News18: BJP’s Biggest Achievement In UP Is That Politics Of Performance Has Replaced Criminalisation Of Politics

News 18  

Union home minister Amit Shah in an exclusive interview with Rahul Joshi, Group Editor-in-Chief, Network18, has said the biggest achievement of the BJP under the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh is that the criminalisation of politics and politicisation of administration, which had earlier existed, have been replaced with the politics of performance. I have roamed the state in the …

Shikha Mukerjee | An election without a wave: Canny voters & canny netas
2 years, 10 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | An election without a wave: Canny voters & canny netas

Deccan Chronicle  

Guesswork about how caste and religious equations will determine outcomes is the best that strategists, whether from political parties or professionals armed with opinion poll numbers, can offer. The voters will make a rational choice on whether a “double engine sarkar” model and the BJP’s hegemonistic “one nation-one party” vision is the best option they have or a heterogeneous alliance …

Anand K. Sahay | Modi, Yogi & UP election: High-stakes battle looms
2 years, 11 months ago

Anand K. Sahay | Modi, Yogi & UP election: High-stakes battle looms

Deccan Chronicle  

People in Uttar Pradesh can hardly believe their ears when they hear Prime Minister Narendra Modi extol chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s governance record. It is noteworthy that just weeks before the election, prominent BJP leaders and ministers have defected to the Opposition although Mr Modi — and not Yogi — is helming the campaign. The lived experience of the people …

Shikha Mukerjee | How the BJP has to fight harder to remain on top
3 years ago

Shikha Mukerjee | How the BJP has to fight harder to remain on top

Deccan Chronicle  

A spectre is chasing the Bharatiya Janata Party. State by state, the voters will deliver a verdict in 2022 and 2023 on the performance of the Modi Sarkar and the BJP, if it is the ruling party and even if it is not. Savaging regional and smaller parties as dynastic and a threat to democracy, Mr Modi said that “problems …

Shikha Mukerjee | Clash of political cultures lies ahead as 2024 looms
3 years, 2 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Clash of political cultures lies ahead as 2024 looms

Deccan Chronicle  

Elections, at every level, are going to be a series of confrontations over political cultures right up to the mother of all battles in 2024. After propounding the idea of cooperative federalism way back, when Mr Modi was India’s bright new hope, the relationship between the Centre and states, in the BJP’s assessment, has sunk to labelling the Opposition of …

CM Pushkar Singh CM Dhami says BJP will return to power in Uttarakhand
3 years, 2 months ago

CM Pushkar Singh CM Dhami says BJP will return to power in Uttarakhand

Op India  

With roughly four months to go for Uttarakhand elections, the ruling BJP is raising the slogan of ‘Yuva Pradesh, Yuva Chief Minister’ as it appointed a young face Pushkar Singh Dhami as the Chief Minister. The two-term MLA from Khatima assembly seat, he is the third chief minister the BJP has appointed after the party won this state in the …

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs states: Key to anti-BJP unity of Opp.
3 years, 4 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs states: Key to anti-BJP unity of Opp.

Deccan Chronicle  

There’s no reason, as yet, for the somewhat battered BJP behemoth to feel under pressure from the intermittent calls for Opposition unity, even though it is displaying signs of being stressed. It’s hard to refute the argument that the BJP looks good even as the incumbent party in a state like UP, where the fractures in the Opposition, with multiple …

Shikha Mukerjee | Despite Modi's push, BJP yet to reach tipping point
3 years, 9 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Despite Modi's push, BJP yet to reach tipping point

Deccan Chronicle  

An eight-phase Assembly election, even for West Bengal where violence is intrinsic to the process and every government has been accused of rigging the outcome, seemed excessive when the Election Commission announced the dates. If it needs so much time to campaign when the elections are underway to build voter support, the question that must be asked is, what was …

Shikha Mukerjee | Bengal to trigger domino effect in Indian politics?
3 years, 9 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Bengal to trigger domino effect in Indian politics?

Deccan Chronicle  

The 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections is more than just a contest between a regional party, the Trinamul Congress, and the challenger, which is a national party, the BJP. If the Trinamul Congress manages to retain power, then the war for federalism, multi-party democracy and secular politics will get a shot in the arm against the BJP’s vision of a …

Shikha Mukerjee | More than a state battle: BJP strategy on test too
3 years, 10 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | More than a state battle: BJP strategy on test too

Deccan Chronicle  

West Bengal has always been able to buck the trend, overturn expectations and be an uncontainable force in Indian politics. By the time Mamata Banerjee reached Dunlop on February 24, an industrial wasteland after the closure of the legendary tyre factory immediately after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting at the same venue, she worked out her offensive strategy that …

Shikha Mukerjee | Pivot or perish: India’s heartland sends signal
4 years, 1 month ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Pivot or perish: India’s heartland sends signal

Deccan Chronicle  

Twenty-first century India’s farmers have written themselves into the history of the country and into the international chronicles of historic protests. The farmers’ protest has called out the Modi government as essentially autocratic, and the BJP as unrepresentative of the farming poor, who are the predominant sector of India’s population and economy. Pivoting will require trashing the three laws -- …

Shikha Mukerjee | TMC realpolitik, BJP & future of ‘Gorkhaland’
4 years, 2 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | TMC realpolitik, BJP & future of ‘Gorkhaland’

Deccan Chronicle  

Playing the politics of divisiveness by raising expectations that indeed a “permanent political solution” will be found on the demand for a separate “Gorkhaland”, carved out of West Bengal, to fulfil aspirations for a “Bas Bhoomi”, or homeland, or a heartland all Nepali-speaking Indian citizens can call their own, is a signal that the West Bengal Assembly polls, due before …

Jharkhand election results 'have paved the way for a BJP-Mukt Bharat': Amarinder
5 years ago

Jharkhand election results 'have paved the way for a BJP-Mukt Bharat': Amarinder

India TV News  

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday hailed the Jharkhand Assembly poll results and said the people have rejected the BJP's "divisive politics". He took a dig at the BJP's slogan of "Congress-Mukt Bharat" and said today's results "have paved the way for a BJP-Mukt Bharat". The Punjab Chief Minister further said that the Jharkhand results validate the Congress party's …

Returns on rhetoric diminishing for BJP
5 years, 2 months ago

Returns on rhetoric diminishing for BJP

Deccan Chronicle  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister and Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah have turned the state Assembly elections into referendums of the party’s government at the centre, a test of the party's standing in the country as such. Given the gung-ho spirit of Mr Modi and Mr Shah, they will declare that the people in these two …

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