Pavan Varma | Mayawati: Forgotten leader with a winning poll formula
1 year, 7 months ago

Pavan Varma | Mayawati: Forgotten leader with a winning poll formula

Deccan Chronicle  

As we approach the 2024 parliamentary elections, many are asking — where has Mayawati disappeared? In Punjab, where Kanshi Ram was born, the dalit population is 32 per cent, the highest in the country. Mayawati’s original strategic mistake was to reduce Kanshi Ram’s vision of a pan-India Bahujan movement largely to UP. The CBI filed a case of disproportionate assets compared to known sources of income, but Mayawati could provide full details of the donations she had received, and the Supreme Court upheld her view. Certainly, her declaration of personal wealth in her Rajya Sabha nomination form raises eyebrows, but which political leader’s assets, if honestly given, would not?

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The Future of Dalit Politics in Uttar Pradesh: Mayawati’s Decline and Azad’s Emergence Lays A Shaky Ground
3 weeks, 5 days ago

The Future of Dalit Politics in Uttar Pradesh: Mayawati’s Decline and Azad’s Emergence Lays A Shaky Ground

The Hindu  

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The Dalit factor in the 2024 Lok Sabha election: Data
5 months, 2 weeks ago

The Dalit factor in the 2024 Lok Sabha election: Data

The Hindu  

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Dalit woman from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur set to be one of the youngest MPs in Lok Sabha
7 months, 1 week ago

Dalit woman from Rajasthan’s Bharatpur set to be one of the youngest MPs in Lok Sabha

The Hindu  

As the results of the Lok Sabha polls were announced on June 4, a video of a saree-clad woman, who was celebrating her victory by dancing to the tunes of a Rajasthani song, went viral on social media. “My husband’s grandfather was a sarpanch but no one ever contested any election above panchayat polls,” Ms. Jatav told The Hindu. “The …

Fight for Gurgaon seat sees a heady mix of caste, religion, development
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Fight for Gurgaon seat sees a heady mix of caste, religion, development

The Hindu  

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Will he or won’t he? Speculation mounts over Varun Gandhi’s BJP ticket from Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Will he or won’t he? Speculation mounts over Varun Gandhi’s BJP ticket from Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat

Live Mint  

Uncertainty continues over the candidature of Bharatiya Janata Party member of parliament Varun Gandhi from the Pilibhit seat in Uttar Pradesh, which he represents. The BJP has so far announced the names for 51 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats from Uttar Pradesh. Amid the buzz, Varun Gandhi’s aide MR Malik, purchased four sets of nomination papers for the forthcoming …

Fight for the Dalit vote hots up in Uttar Pradesh
10 months ago

Fight for the Dalit vote hots up in Uttar Pradesh

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s latest bid to reach out to Dalits in Uttar Pradesh comes at a time when the State is simmering with Dalit anger over the death of a Jatav teenager in police firing in Milak area of Rampur district. On Thursday, as the State reeled under the news of the father of one of the victims of …

Dalit-targeted violence, a dimming of Tamil Nadu’s halo
1 year, 4 months ago

Dalit-targeted violence, a dimming of Tamil Nadu’s halo

The Hindu  

In an incident in Tamil Nadu earlier this month, a Dalit school student, Chinnadurai, was attacked by three students wielding a machete. Editorial | The failure of hope: On the Nanguneri incident in Tamil Nadu Caste pride Today, the primary role of the caste organisations, most often patronised by youngsters, is to create exaggerated caste-specific symbolisms. For instance, the Pattali …

The best summer reads of 2023, Dalit politics in U.P., a dose of Vitamin N and more
1 year, 6 months ago

The best summer reads of 2023, Dalit politics in U.P., a dose of Vitamin N and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. In reviews, we read Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar’s book on Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh, Aasheesh Pittie’s book on the philosophy for birdwatching, an excerpt from a new biography of Vivekananda and more. Books of the week Sudha Pai and Sajjan Kumar’s Maya, Modi, Azad: Dalit Politics in the …

Pavan K. Varma | Karnataka's lesson for BJP: Divisiveness has limits
1 year, 8 months ago

Pavan K. Varma | Karnataka's lesson for BJP: Divisiveness has limits

Deccan Chronicle  

The results in Karnataka may or may not influence the final outcome in the parliamentary elections next year, but they hold important takeaways for all parties, especially the Bharatiya Janata Party. Quite apart from the fact that in Assembly elections people vote for the government they think can work for them directly, there is also something unacceptable in the logic …

Anita Katyal | Uddhav should’ve kept home to self; some in Opp. for Sinha grandstand
2 years, 6 months ago

Anita Katyal | Uddhav should’ve kept home to self; some in Opp. for Sinha grandstand

Deccan Chronicle  

Embattled Shiv Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray must be ruing the day he agreed to gift the home ministry to the Nationalist Congress party two years ago during their negotiations on distribution of portfolios. * When Charanjit Singh Channi was appointed Punjab chief minister, Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi had announced with grand flourish that he was the state’s first dalit chief …

Varanasi Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 LIVE updates: PM Narendra Modi wins by margin of over 3.8 Lakh votes
5 years, 7 months ago

Varanasi Lok Sabha Election Result 2019 LIVE updates: PM Narendra Modi wins by margin of over 3.8 Lakh votes

Firstpost  

Varanasi Lok Sabha Constituency Constituency number: 77 Total electors: 17,67,486 Female electors: 7,81,262 Male electors: 9,86,224 Reserved: No Delimited: No Assembly Constituencies: Rohaniya, Varanasi North, Varanasi South, Varanasi Cantt., Sevapuri Results in last four Lok Sabha elections: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the incumbent MP from Varanasi constituency. In 2009, former Union Minister Murli Manohar Joshi won the seat, narrowly …

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