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 all have to work much harder to take on challenges of their own creation. The big test for the voter will be to buy the story the Modi government is marketing that the electoral bonds through which the BJP raised Rs 6,060 crores since 2019 was a noble act aimed at cleaning up money paid to political parties by bringing in transparency. A key campaign issue for Mr Modi is the role of money in politics, which he deploys as much against the Congress as he does against the regional and smaller parties by painting them all guilty of securing power and amassing money for the perpetuation of a particular dynasty. What is common to the states from the perspective of regional and smaller parties is the Centre’s discrimination against the people or outright deprivation of benefits or wasting public money on projects that do not solve people’s problems of joblessness, price rise, unaffordable costs of education, impoverishment due to a health shock, negative savings and the general lack of opportunities that makes taking risks even less attractive than ever before.

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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. …

India elections: Voters reject Modi’s vision for one-party state in win for competitive democracy
7 months, 1 week ago

India elections: Voters reject Modi’s vision for one-party state in win for competitive democracy

CNN  

CNN — The opposition obituaries had been written. The BJP’s inability to secure an outright majority “pricks the bubble of Modi’s authority,” wrote political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta Tuesday night. Modi is “not the indomitable vehicle for History … Today, he is just another politician, cut to size by the people.” ‘He will have to tread carefully’ Modi’s victory Tuesday …

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 …

Dangers of divisiveness: On the electoral rhetoric, from the top level
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Dangers of divisiveness: On the electoral rhetoric, from the top level

The Hindu  

With polling over in 379 of the 543 constituencies after the fourth phase in the general election, the electoral campaigns of parties have reached closer to the end point. Deep into the campaign calendar, though, the disconnect between the concerns of the electorate and campaign rhetoric — especially that of BJP lynchpin and Prime Minister Narendra Modi — remains, unfortunately, …

PM Modi's political history based on 'Hindu-Muslim dispute': Digvijaya Singh
8 months, 1 week ago

PM Modi's political history based on 'Hindu-Muslim dispute': Digvijaya Singh

New Indian Express  

RAJGARH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political history is based on the "Hindu-Muslim dispute" and he should do some soul-searching as to who is benefiting from it, senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh has claimed. Singh, who has been fielded by the Congress from Rajgarh Lok Sabha seat in Madhya Pradesh, also said that he was not satisfied with the recent Supreme …

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 pre-poll survey | ‘BJP has an edge, but a tough fight is possible’
9 months ago

CSDS-Lokniti pre-poll survey | ‘BJP has an edge, but a tough fight is possible’

The Hindu  

Three weeks before the 2024 general election was to commence, the National Democratic Alliance enjoyed a comfortable 12 percentage point lead over the rival alliance, INDIA, according to the CSDS-Lokniti pre-poll survey. Three factors The decrease in satisfaction stems from inflation, increasing unemployment and poverty — the top three “least popular initiatives” of the Modi government, according to the survey. …

Keeping up with UP | Modi juggernaut, INDIA dreams and the power of number 80
10 months ago

Keeping up with UP | Modi juggernaut, INDIA dreams and the power of number 80

Hindustan Times  

Socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia often used to say that elections are the biggest festival of the country in which an excited public dresses up and participates. Much of the voters’ enthusiasm evaporates when the election results look like a forgone conclusion in a state which sends the declared ruler to the Central throne and often plays a decisive role …

Govt schemes’ success, Modi factor key for BJP
1 year, 3 months ago

Govt schemes’ success, Modi factor key for BJP

Hindustan Times  

The Bharatiya Janata Party is banking on collective leadership, the reach, effectiveness and success of its large welfare schemes, and an aggressive electoral campaign built around Prime Minister Narendra Modi to prevent the outcome of the upcoming polls in five states from being a repeat of 2018 when it suffered a setback, losing power in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

PM Modi, Shah as Stars & a Dash of Infra, Culture. Will BJP’s K’taka Script Be a Hit? - News18
1 year, 9 months ago

PM Modi, Shah as Stars & a Dash of Infra, Culture. Will BJP’s K’taka Script Be a Hit? - News18

News 18  

From visits within days of each other, election yatras from opponents’ strongholds, unveiling statues of Lingayat and Vokkaliga icons, to using deeply rooted southern cultural icons, historical figures and movies, both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP’s election strategist and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have their target set and locked — to strengthen the BJP’s Hindutva message in …

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 | Kharge’s strategy: How the Congress can corner Modi
1 year, 11 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Kharge’s strategy: How the Congress can corner Modi

Deccan Chronicle  

It was a perverse force of circumstances that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling BJP had to contend with when the Budget Session of Parliament began on January 31. The shift in Mr Modi’s and the BJP’s position happened in the time it took for the discussion on the motion of thanks on the President’s address to move from …

Rahul Gandhi Should Know That Only Modi-Bashing Won’t Help Him Win 2024 Elections - News18
1 year, 11 months ago

Rahul Gandhi Should Know That Only Modi-Bashing Won’t Help Him Win 2024 Elections - News18

News 18  

‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.’ Given that personal attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi have always proved counterproductive for the Congress, why has it chosen to target him yet again, this time on the Adani imbroglio? What’s more, despite the fact that the ‘NaMo vs RaGa’ scenario has always benefitted the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

BJP Only Viable Option for Punjab in Future, AAP No Alternative: Union Minister Jitendra Singh
2 years, 10 months ago

BJP Only Viable Option for Punjab in Future, AAP No Alternative: Union Minister Jitendra Singh

News 18  

The AAP is no alternative to the BJP, which is going to be the only single viable option in Punjab in the future, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday, asserting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought a “new political culture” in the country. Asked about the challenge posed by the AAP that has scripted a stellar victory in …

Opposition must try to understand why Modi gets voters’ support – India TV
2 years, 10 months ago

Opposition must try to understand why Modi gets voters’ support – India TV

India TV News  

Soon after BJP scored spectacular wins in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is now in his home state Gujarat, which is due to go to assembly polls later this year. A day after addressing his jubilant party workers in Delhi, Modi took out a road show in Ahmedabad, and addressed meetings of party leaders, MPs, …

Political Line | What the poll results say about Indian politics
2 years, 10 months ago

Political Line | What the poll results say about Indian politics

The Hindu  

Eight points to note from Assembly elections Results of the Assembly elections in five States are indeed a shot in the arm for the Bharatiya Janata Party, which won in all four States where it was in power. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said these results have sealed the outcome of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections too in the BJP’s …

Did Modi matter more?
2 years, 10 months ago

Did Modi matter more?

The Hindu  

It is clear that the ‘double engine’ formula worked well for the BJP. The Lokniti-CSDS post-poll survey found a little over one-thirds of voters to be fully satisfied with the Adityanath government, six points lower than the Modi government. The Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party alliance tried hard to wage an electoral battle against ‘image Yogi’, but the voters who backed …

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, …

Anand K. Sahay | Will RSS do a rethink over Modi if he takes hit in UP?
2 years, 10 months ago

Anand K. Sahay | Will RSS do a rethink over Modi if he takes hit in UP?

Deccan Chronicle  

The February-March 2022 Assembly elections in five states — Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur — seem different from any other state polls since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took office in 2014, and that can leave the RSS with a giant-sized headache. A big part of the RSS’s expected concern is that these elections potentially cast a shadow on …

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 …

How does PM Modi take decisions? JP Nadda reveals at Agenda Aaj Tak
3 years, 1 month ago

How does PM Modi take decisions? JP Nadda reveals at Agenda Aaj Tak

India Today  

Speaking at Agenda Aaj Tak in New Delhi on Saturday, BJP national president JP Nadda revealed how Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes decisions. JP Nadda was responding to a question about whether PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah alone take all decisions. “Modi ji is the leader, his thoughts are the most important, but he takes everyone along,” JP …

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 …

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 …

Anita Katyal | On Azad, Cong misfired twice; how's Tomar for new MP CM?
3 years, 10 months ago

Anita Katyal | On Azad, Cong misfired twice; how's Tomar for new MP CM?

Deccan Chronicle  

The Congress leadership was clearly worried when it first heard that some members of the “infamous” G-23 planned to participate in a public event in Jammu, ostensibly to honour senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad who recently retired from the Rajya Sabha. Ever since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the coronavirus vaccine in the second phase of the immunisation drive, his …

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 -- …

The singular appeal of Narendra Modi, explained in six charts
4 years, 2 months ago

The singular appeal of Narendra Modi, explained in six charts

Live Mint  

Exit polls suggest a strong anti-incumbency wave against the Bihar state government but Prime Minister Narendra Modi continues to remain popular in the state, the election campaign showed. Our analysis is based on three different data sources, large nationally representative surveys carried out by Lokniti-CSDS; an urban online survey by YouGov, Mint, and Centre for Policy Research conducted earlier this …

India gives Modi a high five
5 years, 7 months ago

India gives Modi a high five

The Hindu  

Making major gains in West Bengal and Odisha while holding his own in northern India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cruised to a second term in office, with the BJP alone looking set to win just over 300 seats in the seven-phase Lok Sabha election. Its major NDA allies — Shiv Sena, JD 16, LJP 6 and Akali Dal 2 — …

India election: Turnout high in ‘boost for Modi’s BJP’ as voting enters final stages
5 years, 8 months ago

India election: Turnout high in ‘boost for Modi’s BJP’ as voting enters final stages

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. A turnout bump was seen as good news for …

Opinion | Election 2019: It’s PM Modi versus anyone-but-Modi
5 years, 9 months ago

Opinion | Election 2019: It’s PM Modi versus anyone-but-Modi

Live Mint  

The 2019 Lok Sabha elections are unusual in some ways. These appeals, of course, cut no ice with diehard fans of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who are chanting the Bharatiya Janata Party slogan "Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar". As a keen election observer pointed out, in the ultimate analysis, this election is neither Modi versus Rahul Gandhi, nor Modi versus …

BJP’s show of strength in Gandhinagar: Amit Shah files his nomination flanked by NDA allies
5 years, 9 months ago

BJP’s show of strength in Gandhinagar: Amit Shah files his nomination flanked by NDA allies

Op India  

BJP President Amit Shah today reached Ahmedabad, Gujarat to file his nomination for the Gandhinagar constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. In a massive show of strength, he was accompanied by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Shiromani Akali Dal’s Prakash Singh Badal, Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray and Lok Janshakti Party’s Ram Vilas Paswan. Also present at …

By fielding Priyanka Gandhi, Congress may have stumbled upon a shrewd move to add to Narendra Modi's difficulties
5 years, 11 months ago

By fielding Priyanka Gandhi, Congress may have stumbled upon a shrewd move to add to Narendra Modi's difficulties

Firstpost  

With Priyanka Gandhi joining Congress, Rahul Gandhi may have stumbled upon a veritable strategy to — if not revive Congress — but at least add to Narendra Modi’s difficulties in India’s most crucial state that sends 80 lawmakers to the Lok Sabha There are many ways of looking at the Priyanka Gandhi announcement. Rahul and his advisors clearly believe that …

Hopes, fears dominate the new 2019 narrative
6 years ago

Hopes, fears dominate the new 2019 narrative

Deccan Chronicle  

Indisputably, India has entered the last lap of the most confrontational years between two parliamentary elections, and the early indications are that this will be the most rancorous polls ever. The government’s urgency to evolve a new narrative is evidence that the verdict of 2014, described by Mr Modi as an occasion when “India won”, did not lead to the …

Handling politics when the breeze is changing
6 years ago

Handling politics when the breeze is changing

Deccan Chronicle  

When the BJP was expecting to steamroll the Congress, it went for a six over mid-wicket. The “hesitations of history” imposed on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by the circumstances of his birth and by Narendra Modi’s unremitting demonising of Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira and Rajiv Gandhi — magnified by leading media sections that praised even questionable moves of …

Chanakya's View: BJP gets wake-up call, Cong needs an agenda
6 years ago

Chanakya's View: BJP gets wake-up call, Cong needs an agenda

Deccan Chronicle  

The Assembly elections to the five states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram, are over. In the end, the Congress nosed ahead, but with the narrowest of margins, where in over a dozen seats the margin of its win over the BJP was by just a couple of hundred votes. Whatever the below expectations margin of the Congress’ …

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