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Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024 | CSDS-Lokniti Survey: National vs State-level choices — the role of leadership in alliance politics
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra Assembly elections 2024 | CSDS-Lokniti Survey: National vs State-level choices — the role of leadership in alliance politics

The Hindu  

While Assembly elections are about State issues and State-level leaders, it is often that national-level leaders play a critical role in State-level choices. In the recently-concluded Maharashtra Assembly elections, more than four voters mentioned that their vote choice was shaped by considerations of national leadership. Of late, Assembly elections are also often centred around the question as to who will …

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'Nation Has To Come Forward...': PM Modi Highlights Need For 'One Nation, One Election'
4 months, 3 weeks ago

'Nation Has To Come Forward...': PM Modi Highlights Need For 'One Nation, One Election'

News 18  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday highlighted the need of ‘One Nation, One Election’ saying that the multiple and frequent elections create obstacles in the development and progress of the country. PM Modi urged everyone to come together to achieve the goal of ‘one nation, one election’, saying that having simultaneous elections across the country enhances political stability and administrative …

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Trump, elections and the politics of spectacle
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump, elections and the politics of spectacle

Al Jazeera  

America’s mercantile politics relies on entertainment and money. In fact, one could argue that Trump has been so successful in politics because he has skilfully made use of key aspects of the culture, economy, governance, power and personal values that have shaped American life since Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s. Mass “social decay and despair” keep expanding among Americans, …

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2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election
7 months, 1 week ago

2024 Is the Year of the Generative AI Election

Wired  

I’m a reporter on the WIRED Politics desk, and I’m taking over for Makena this week to talk about politicians rising from the dead in India and the rapper Eminem endorsing opposition parties in South Africa. Or perhaps you’re one of the people whom WIRED contributors Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal spoke to for this great WIRED feature, and who …

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BJP Likely to Field Ex-MLA Annapurna from Balkonda
1 year, 2 months ago

BJP Likely to Field Ex-MLA Annapurna from Balkonda

Deccan Chronicle  

Nizamabad: To ensure women's representation in the Legislative Assembly, the BJP is planning to field senior politician and former MLA A. Annapurna from the Balkonda Assembly constituency, instead of her son Dr A. Mallikarjun Reddy. Annapurna, who is believed to be a formidable opponent to the rivals in the elections, which will see a triangular contest in the constituency, entered …

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Imran Khan: ‘I know they will put me in jail, it’s a matter of time’
1 year, 6 months ago

Imran Khan: ‘I know they will put me in jail, it’s a matter of time’

The Independent  

Imran Khan insists he and his party are still capable of returning to power in Pakistan’s next elections despite the mounting criminal charges against them – comparing himself to embattled leaders from history like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi. He has since survived an assassination attempt that left him with nerve damage, and Khan has repeatedly accused the “establishment” – …

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Explained: Will actor Kichcha Sudeep be a hit for the BJP in the Karnataka Assembly elections?
1 year, 8 months ago

Explained: Will actor Kichcha Sudeep be a hit for the BJP in the Karnataka Assembly elections?

Firstpost  

There’s an energy in the Karnataka air, a political energy. On Wednesday, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai will be filing his nomination papers for the elections and noted Kannada actor Kichcha Sudeep will accompany the BJP leader. Later in April, Sudeep stated that he wouldn’t be joining politics, but would campaign for the BJP in the Karnataka Assembly elections. I welcome …

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Elections 2022 Updates: Congress Govt Had Tied Hands of Armed Forces in Acting Against Terrorism Due to Vote Bank Politics, Says PM Modi
2 years, 1 month ago

Elections 2022 Updates: Congress Govt Had Tied Hands of Armed Forces in Acting Against Terrorism Due to Vote Bank Politics, Says PM Modi

News 18  

Addressing a rally in Gujarat?s Palitana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked those gathered to refer to him not as the?PM? I was in Congress for 22 years and I never heard any name other than Gandhi.” Promising free medical treatment if elected to power in Gujarat, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal at a press conference on Monday also said that people …

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Former Madhya Pradesh CM Uma Bharti Begins Groundwork to Re-enter State Politics Ahead of 2023 Polls
2 years, 3 months ago

Former Madhya Pradesh CM Uma Bharti Begins Groundwork to Re-enter State Politics Ahead of 2023 Polls

News 18  

In an attempt to give a further push to her long-standing demand for a liquor ban in specific places or control the distribution policy in Madhya Pradesh, veteran BJP leader and former Union Minister Uma Bharti has announced that she will stop living at home or inside a building from November 7. Bharti, who has also been the only woman …

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Prashant Kishor both ‘a fox and a hedgehog’ — a disrupter with the uncanny ability to transform the weakly institutionalised parties: Ashwani Kumar
2 years, 8 months ago

Prashant Kishor both ‘a fox and a hedgehog’ — a disrupter with the uncanny ability to transform the weakly institutionalised parties: Ashwani Kumar

The Hindu  

Political Scientist Professor Ashwani Kumar speaks to Nistula Hebbar on the role of professional strategists in India’s politics…. Given media hype around his super-human election management skills, the spotlight on the talks of Prashant Kishor joining the Congress party points to the radical shifts in the ideological, leadership and organisational party politics India has witnessed in the era of what …

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AAP will quit politics if ...: Arvind Kejriwal vs BJP over Delhi civic polls
2 years, 9 months ago

AAP will quit politics if ...: Arvind Kejriwal vs BJP over Delhi civic polls

India Today  

The Aam Aadmi Party will quit politics if the BJP conducts the Delhi civic polls “on time”, dared Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a series of tweets as the Centre approved the unification of the three civic bodies of the city, elections to which were scheduled for next month. Not mincing any words, the AAP’s national convener claimed that the …

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As AAP sweeps the state, Punjab offers a clean slate of politics but not without tall challenges: Read how
2 years, 9 months ago

As AAP sweeps the state, Punjab offers a clean slate of politics but not without tall challenges: Read how

Op India  

The results of the Punjab Assembly elections came as a significant shock for the traditional players. The fight within the Congress party, Shiromani Akali Dal’s bad track record, Capt Amarinder Singh’s separation from Congress, Sidhu’s irresponsible behaviour close to elections and the negative wave against Bharatiya Janata Party in the state redirected more votes to AAP. In Lok Sabha 2019 …

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Mayawati asks Election Commission to curb rising misuse of religion in politics during polls
2 years, 11 months ago

Mayawati asks Election Commission to curb rising misuse of religion in politics during polls

The Hindu  

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday expressed concern over the "increasing" use of religion in politics during elections and said the Election Commission must curb this “worrying” trend. Her remarks came a day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the Assembly Elections in the State will be an “80% versus 20%” one, alluding to the roughly 20% …

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From ideologies to caste: The emerging identity politics in West Bengal elections
3 years, 9 months ago

From ideologies to caste: The emerging identity politics in West Bengal elections

India Today  

Identities categorised in caste and religious terms were never significant in West Bengal’s electoral politics. The Mahishyas are numerically the biggest and a significant caste group in several districts of South Bengal including East and West Midnapore, Howrah, Hooghly, South 24 Parganas and East and West Bardhaman. The fact that it was not included in the list of OBCs then …

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Frontier politics: The Hindu Editorial on identity issues taking centrestage in Assam Assembly Elections 2021
3 years, 9 months ago

Frontier politics: The Hindu Editorial on identity issues taking centrestage in Assam Assembly Elections 2021

The Hindu  

The BJP’s rise to power in Assam in 2016 was remarkable, and the party has set an even higher goal this time, to win 100 of the 126 Assembly seats along with its allies, the Asom Gana Parishad, United People’s Party Liberal and the Rabha Joutha Mancha. An alliance of regional parties, the Assam Jatiya Parishad and Akhil Gogoi’s Raijor …

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‘Modi government’s vendetta politics in Kashmir must end,’ says National Conference leader Salman Sagar
4 years ago

‘Modi government’s vendetta politics in Kashmir must end,’ says National Conference leader Salman Sagar

The Hindu  

The People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration has emerged as the largest formation in Jammu and Kashmir’s District Development Council elections, the first elections to be held after the Central government revoked the erstwhile State’s special status in August 2019. As the Apni Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s alleged proxy, failed to make headway in the elections, all eyes are on …

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Decoding Bihar election results 2020: Can't overlook that Nitish is on slippery pitch irrespective of mandate
4 years, 1 month ago

Decoding Bihar election results 2020: Can't overlook that Nitish is on slippery pitch irrespective of mandate

Firstpost  

How can Nitish respond to this elections? However, he made a bizarre choice in 2017 and compromised his own stature and ‘Bihar’s brand of politics’ by realigning with the BJP led by Narendra Modi. Projected like a consensus process on Nitish Kumar 2.0, the mandate through 2020 Bihar elections is morally making it untenable for him to play a second …

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Bihar Assembly Elections | When politics is an end in itself
4 years, 2 months ago

Bihar Assembly Elections | When politics is an end in itself

The Hindu  

For voters of Bihar, issues such as unemployment and corruption have taken the back seat, with the debates revolving around personalities: can Chief Minister Nitish Kumar retain his chair; will the BJP have a Chief Minister of its own for the first time in the State; and is it possible for Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan to make or …

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Rumblings in Bengal BJP over party’s line before 2021 Assembly elections
4 years, 10 months ago

Rumblings in Bengal BJP over party’s line before 2021 Assembly elections

The Hindu  

In the aftermath of the BJP’s defeat in the Delhi Assembly polls, rumbling have started in the West Bengal unit of the party on what is going to be its political line for the run-up to the 2021 Assembly polls. The remarks made by State BJP president Dilip Ghosh last month, justifying the killing of people by the police in …

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UK elections in December? What’s wrong with that? – Meanwhile in America
5 years, 2 months ago

UK elections in December? What’s wrong with that? – Meanwhile in America

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This was originally published in the November 1 edition of CNN’s Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. The UK doesn’t have a fixed election date – like so many other British things, election timing is a matter of tradition more than law – but 11 of the last 13 general elections have …

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Elections in Odisha a family affair: BJP, BJD, Congress field leaders from same family in Lok Sabha, Assembly polls
5 years, 9 months ago

Elections in Odisha a family affair: BJP, BJD, Congress field leaders from same family in Lok Sabha, Assembly polls

Firstpost  

Be it the Biju Janata Dal, Congress or Bharatiya Janata Party, politics in Odisha has witnessing a lot of candidates who are in the fray for the state Assembly and Lok Sabha polls along with family members representing the same party. Bhubaneswar: Be it the Biju Janata Dal, Congress or Bharatiya Janata Party, politics in Odisha has witnessing a lot …

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Facebook announces changes to political ad rules ahead of EU elections in May
5 years, 9 months ago

Facebook announces changes to political ad rules ahead of EU elections in May

Firstpost  

Facebook recently also pulled down some 700 posts and accounts in India to counter the misinformation problem. Facebook has announced changes to the way political “We are introducing some new tools to help us deliver on two key goals that experts have told us are important for protecting the integrity of elections: preventing online advertising from being used for foreign …

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The Independent Group becomes Change UK as Heidi Allen is unveiled as leader - and party will stand in EU elections
5 years, 9 months ago

The Independent Group becomes Change UK as Heidi Allen is unveiled as leader - and party will stand in EU elections

The Telegraph  

The Independent Group will stand candidates in the European elections having applied to register as an official political party under a new name - Change UK. Heidi Allen, the MP for South Cambridgeshire, has been appointed to become Interim Leader of the new party for the purposes of Electoral Commission registration until the election of a permanent leader at an …

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