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 “family” parties as “enemies”, who peddle “hate.” This hostility is reciprocated by the Opposition and its new and perhaps unabashedly self-nominated messiah, Mamata Banerjee. Her description, and it’s probably a shared belief among parties opposed to the BJP about the current status of the relationship, that it’s not a federalism of “partnership”, meaning between equals, but it’s a hierarchy of “subordination,” followed up by her attack that the BJP government at the Centre dishes out “step-motherly” treatment, is sufficient warning that the run-up the 2024 war will be a series of battles fought in states due to hold elections between now and then. By recognising the Opposition as “family-led” parties that peddle hate and enmity, Mr Modi has acknowledged there’s a new kind of challenge to the BJP. Since Rajiv Gandhi launched the panchayati raj system that linked the party in power at the Centre directly to the gram panchayats in the states by establishing a route for funding Central programmes, state governments and regional/non-national parties had to find new ways to ensure that they too have programmes recognised by the voters in the most distant polling booths as customised schemes that meet their most immediate needs and fulfil their expectations.

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Shikha Mukerjee | India’s leaders must leave the world of virtual reality
1 week ago

Shikha Mukerjee | India’s leaders must leave the world of virtual reality

Deccan Chronicle  

Rhetorical flourishes are a bad idea to begin with. Instead of responding to the distress, the Congress chose to turn it into a cheap jibe targeting Narendra Modi government; Jairam Ramesh, the party’s communications in-charge, seized on the indicator as the “dubious distinction” earned “of being the only government in the history of Independent India to steal mangalsutras from women.” …

Shikha Mukerjee | Centralising India amidst imperatives of coalitions
4 weeks ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Centralising India amidst imperatives of coalitions

Deccan Chronicle  

Reversing the inexorable advance towards centralisation of executive power, programmes and election schedules reflected in the Narendra Modi 0.3 government’s rush to get legislative approval for the “One Nation-One Election” blueprint appears impossible. The need to come back again and again to why the losses in Haryana and Maharashtra were damaging to the INDIA bloc’s effectiveness in Parliament and in …

Shikha Mukerjee | Edgy Mahayuti equations: The new game of thrones
1 month ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Edgy Mahayuti equations: The new game of thrones

Deccan Chronicle  

The swearing-in of Devendra Fadnavis as Maharashtra’s new chief minister, almost two weeks after the alliance bagged 80 per cent of the total 288 seats in the Assembly, settles nothing. To set the record straight, to use a well-worn cliché, the BJP in Maharashtra doesn’t call the shots, despite winning 132 seats and getting the support of five other newly-elected …

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 …

Five Years of Turbulence: A Glimpse into Maharashtra Assembly's Turbulent Journey
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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Five Years of Turbulence: A Glimpse into Maharashtra Assembly's Turbulent Journey

Live Mint  

The Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is set to hold a single-phase election on November 20 to elect new chief minister. The outgoing assembly faced political turmoil with three different chief ministers in the past five years. The current assembly is considered bipolar between the ruling Mahayuti and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). The BJP is currently in alliance with NCP …

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. …

Mithun Chakraborty Claims Bengal Throne Will Be BJP's After 2026 Assembly Polls
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Mithun Chakraborty Claims Bengal Throne Will Be BJP's After 2026 Assembly Polls

Live Mint  

Actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty has claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will form the government in West Bengal after the 2026 Assembly elections in the state. He called upon the BJP functionaries in the state to ensure one crore membership in the campaign that will last till November 30.

Political Line | Keywords of 2024: Communalism, casteism, and constitutionalism
8 months, 1 week ago

Political Line | Keywords of 2024: Communalism, casteism, and constitutionalism

The Hindu  

May 03, 2024 09:30 pm | Updated May 04, 2024 11:49 am IST As campaigning rolls on for the 2024 general election, the BJP is sensing danger that cannot be overcome by dog-whistle slogans. This approach of the BJP led by Mr. Modi is causing unease among the party’s upper caste supporters. This communalism and casteism of the BJP’s 2024 …

New political alignments put demand of Gorkhaland at the backdrop in Darjeeling
8 months, 3 weeks ago

New political alignments put demand of Gorkhaland at the backdrop in Darjeeling

The Hindu  

Marked by fresh political alignments, the elections in Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat in 2024 has emerged as one of the most interesting electoral contests in West Bengal. While the politics of Darjeeling hills for the past several decades has been centered around the Gorkha identity and demand for a separate state of Gorkhaland, the issue seems to have taken a …

What direction will politics in Uttar Pradesh take after 2024 general elections?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

What direction will politics in Uttar Pradesh take after 2024 general elections?

Hindustan Times  

The first two phases of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh will not only indicate which way the wind will blow, but also send some significant political messages across the country, primarily because of the region’s social demography, dominated by three castes and communities – Muslims, Dalits and Jats; the region is also called UP’s ‘Jat land’. The party’s ally, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Letters to The Editor — March 4, 2024
10 months, 1 week ago

Letters to The Editor — March 4, 2024

The Hindu  

The Bharatiya Janata Party has gone into overdrive in its quest for a third term in power. It seems to be unmindful of the danger of an overkill if a political party, however invincible it may seem, plans and does everything too early, too carefully and too professionally. But they ought to realise that India’s political diversity and a host …

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress must forge unity out of its internal diversity
1 year, 3 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Congress must forge unity out of its internal diversity

Deccan Chronicle  

The Congress Party is entirely truthful when its leader Rahul Gandhi acknowledges that the party is not an organisation; his take is that it is a movement. The three challenges are -- one, to convert the “movement” into an organisation to fight the five state elections in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha battle; two, iron out wrinkles, frictions, …

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 …

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | As 2024 looms, Kejriwal is looking ahead to 2029
1 year, 7 months ago

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | As 2024 looms, Kejriwal is looking ahead to 2029

Deccan Chronicle  

In the aftermath of Assembly elections in a state, albeit numerically not very significant, which had the nation’s attention riveted to the outcome, it may seem odd to begin with a reaction to a minor bout in the round — namely the Lok Sabha byelection in Punjab’s Jalandhar. Noticeably buoyant after his comeback following last year’s debacle in Sangrur, after …

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 …

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 | Insurrection in America: How tail wagged the dog!
2 years ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Insurrection in America: How tail wagged the dog!

Deccan Chronicle  

After 14 failed attempts to win the Speaker’s gavel, Kevin McCarthy finally succeeded in bartering his authority to win in the 15th attempt the coveted prize of leading America’s House of Representatives. The obvious pride of these far-right members in holding the House and an orderly transition, from a Democratic Party under Nancy Pelosi to the Republican McCarthy as Speaker, …

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 …

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Amid BJP triumph, can AAP be a force in 2024?
2 years, 1 month ago

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Amid BJP triumph, can AAP be a force in 2024?

Deccan Chronicle  

The verdict of the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh along with that for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi underscores the BJP’s continuing electoral hegemony in large parts of India. However, even though the BJP bettered the Congress’ mark under Madhavsinh Solanki in 1985, it fell short of the latter’s vote share of 55.6 per cent. Although the votes …

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 | 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 …

Next 30-40 years to be era of BJP: Shah
2 years, 6 months ago

Next 30-40 years to be era of BJP: Shah

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday declared that it is time for the country to reject politics of appeasement, with Union Home Minister Amit Shah making it clear that along with appeasement politics, it is time to put an end to family and dynastic rule, and politics based on caste or creed. Proposing a political resolution on the second …

The meaning of a ‘dynasty-mukt Bharat’
2 years, 6 months ago

The meaning of a ‘dynasty-mukt Bharat’

The Hindu  

In the Bharatiya Janata Party ’s political strategy, opposition to dynastic politics has gradually moved from the periphery to the centre. Functions of discourse There are two main functions of the BJP’s discourse on dynastic politics, both of which highlight the nature of the party’s political mobilisation. Thus, the BJP’s reliance on the discourse of dynastic politics is necessitated by …

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 …

Shikha Mukerjee | CPM has sunk into a hole: Where’ll it go from here?
2 years, 9 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | CPM has sunk into a hole: Where’ll it go from here?

Deccan Chronicle  

Fifty-eight years after it split from the original party and the beginning of its existence as the Communist Party of India in 1964, the party is in a crisis. The reshaping of the political space between 2014 and now pits the hard right-wing, identity-based, communally divisive, majoritarian politics of Hindutva of the BJP embarked on its mission to convert the …

Shikha Mukerjee | Either the Congress will survive, or the Gandhis
2 years, 9 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Either the Congress will survive, or the Gandhis

Deccan Chronicle  

The BJP is certainly a national party, which represents voters across India. It doesn’t belong to either the Nehru-Gandhi trio, who bombard India with guilt by reiterating the sacrifices by the family, as though no one else was killed in the service of the nation; nor does it belong to the Group of 23, led by, among others, Ghulam Nabi …

Five key stories from the 2022 election season
2 years, 10 months ago

Five key stories from the 2022 election season

Hindustan Times  

It might be a semi-final to 2024 as the victors will no doubt claim, or it may not be that, but there are five trends evident in the results of the latest round of assembly elections that will continue to play out over the next two years. The Bahujan Samaj Party’s vote share of 12.82% is actually lower than that …

Uttar Pradesh's new bipolar order | OPINION
2 years, 10 months ago

Uttar Pradesh's new bipolar order | OPINION

India Today  

The 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election saw a campaign not seen in the state in the last three decades. In 2017, Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party and Rahul Gandhi’s Congress did come together with their “do ladke” blitz, but Mayawati of the Bahujan Samaj Party fought her own battle. In the background, first, it was said many Muslim candidates fielded by …

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 …

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 …

Come 2024, BJP’s Challenger Will Not be Congress but Powerful State-based Parties
3 years ago

Come 2024, BJP’s Challenger Will Not be Congress but Powerful State-based Parties

News 18  

With the BJP-led NDA government halfway through its second term in office, the fight for occupying the centre stage in the Opposition space is clearly out in the open. The real opposition to the BJP and its allies has emerged from powerful state-based parties, be it in West Bengal, Jharkhand, Telangana, Odisha and Tamil Nadu. Powerful State-based Parties Here, it …

Shikha Mukerjee | As Indian polity matures, new politics is on the rise
3 years, 1 month ago

Shikha Mukerjee | As Indian polity matures, new politics is on the rise

Deccan Chronicle  

In politics, there cannot be a vacuum. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s fast, aggressive exercises in filling the space the Congress wilfully vacated can be seen as opportunistic or it can be perceived as a necessity. It’s hard and presumably satisfying when the regional and smaller parties defeated the BJP in the Assembly or other civic polls, as Mamata …

Shikha Mukerjee | Crossing the line: Mamata transforms national role?
3 years, 1 month ago

Shikha Mukerjee | Crossing the line: Mamata transforms national role?

Deccan Chronicle  

Meetings between chief ministers and the Prime Minister on state issues are routine and usually do not excite the media, nor do they fuel so much speculation. However, the meeting between West Bengal’s Mamata Banerjee and Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this week — and similar recent encounters — were a little different. The issues that Mamata Banerjee said she …

Shikha Mukerjee | In democratic parties, why dissent equals disloyalty?
3 years, 2 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | In democratic parties, why dissent equals disloyalty?

Deccan Chronicle  

Avowals of democracy within parties don’t add up to much; in fact, these declarations of consultations and compromises are empty of content. That’s true of probably every party that asserts its commitment to defending India’s democracy and finds fault with other parties for failing to do so. If democracy within parties equals open entry at the bottom and a rise …

Shikha Mukerjee | As Cong crumbles, India's politics shifting to centre
3 years, 3 months ago

Shikha Mukerjee | As Cong crumbles, India's politics shifting to centre

Deccan Chronicle  

The political space in the BJP’s simplistic construction is divided into territories where the saffron tide has swept away the debilitated Congress and others where the dysfunctional and rudderless party is barely hanging on to power, awaiting the moment when it will succumb to its internal problems and sink out of existence. In this version, since regional parties regardless 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 …

The possibilities, and limits, of a third front
3 years, 6 months ago

The possibilities, and limits, of a third front

Hindustan Times  

The relentless search for a modern-day Chanakya has seen union home minister Amit Shah being projected as his contemporary avatar, even though there is much more to the Arthashastra than a “power at all costs” mantra. With the Congress besieged with self-destructive internal divisions, the prospect of a third front is alluring to Modi’s opponents. In the mid-1990s, when a …

The political variables that will shape the 2024 verdict
3 years, 7 months ago

The political variables that will shape the 2024 verdict

Hindustan Times  

The 2024 general elections are almost three years away. If the 2021 assembly results are extrapolated at the Lok Sabha level, the BJP would get only 10 out of the 42 Lok Sabha segments in the state. Uttar Pradesh in 2022 will set the mood for 2024, BJP has a massive lead there The 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh …

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | After Bengal, Opposition must devise national strategy
3 years, 8 months ago

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | After Bengal, Opposition must devise national strategy

Deccan Chronicle  

What beyond the cathartic moment? Increased networking among the Opposition parties, so evident during the West Bengal elections when several leaders appeared on the Trinamul Congress’ platforms, will be an added headache for the BJP. After all, the Congress had formed an alliance with the Left Front in West Bengal even though the two parties were locked in a direct …

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Hindu politics' by Opposition is a sign of BJP's New India
3 years, 8 months ago

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay | Hindu politics' by Opposition is a sign of BJP's New India

Deccan Chronicle  

What is common to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav? Ms Banerjee, as well as Mr Yadav, in ways more than one, embody the majority of India’s Opposition leaders who have since 2014, taken recourse to startling innovations to wear their hitherto invisible Hindu birthmarks on their sleeves. The Opposition parties are …

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 -- …

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