The BJP-led Mahayuti’s swashbuckling assembly election victory in Maharashtra, just six months into big setbacks at the hands of the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi in the parliamentary polls, has come on four dominant factors: cash, caste, crops and communal polarisation. CASH The state government’s Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana covering over 23 million women, and under which beneficiaries from indigent …
With less than a week to go for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, contentious issues are coming to the forefront of the campaign rhetoric in the state’s western region, which has a significant Muslim population and communal fault lines, as terms like “exodus”, “curfew”, “fatwa” and “riots” are coming into play. The BJP is raking …
Loni is more than 600 km away from Ram Janmabhoomi Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh but assurance of building Ram Rajya and slogans of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ reverberate in the assembly constituency. BJP’s sitting MLA, and the candidate from Loni, Nand Kishore Gurjar, says he has built Ram Rajya in the constituency where butcher shops have been closed, crime has come …
Accusing the BJP of indulging in polarisation in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh polls, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary on Sunday said the BJP is driving a “one gear-car” that is headed backwards, and asserted that the anti-Muslim rhetoric will not work as people are fed up of such politics. In an interview to PTI, Chaudhary said the quitting of …
After wresting Assam from the Congress in 2016, the Bharatiya Janata Party was able to retain the State in the recently concluded Assembly election, thus strengthening its eastern footprint. image/svg+xml Choice by Religion and Ethnicity Voted for Mahajot Voted for NDA Voted AJP-RD alliance Voted for others Hindus 19 67 7 8 Muslims 81 11 2 6 Others 36 48 …