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 …
The Bharatiya Janata Party alliance won the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections getting 274 seats in a deeply bipolar contest though with a reduced tally from their 2017 score of 312 seats. Mr. Maurya had resigned from Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet and quit the Bharatiya Janata Party to join SP, shortly before the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. 9.40 p.m. Dy CM …
The West Bengal election results on Sunday came as a rude shock to the BJP. While one may argue that the complete collapse of the Left-Congress-ISF alliance led to a consolidation of Muslim voters behind the TMC, the BJP's failure to affect the counter-polarisation of the majority Hindu population behind the party reflects the limits of this strategy. In fact, …
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday dedicated the historic victory of the Left Democratic Front in the assembly polls to the people and said it proved that there was no room for communal politics in the state. Flaying both the Congress-led UDF and BJP-NDA and a section of the “right wing” media for trying to tarnish the image of …
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