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By Nantoo Banerjee On the face of it the controversial citizenship amendment act of 2019 may appear to be purely humanitarian. It provides the government with a special provision to expedite the citizenship process for non-Muslim migrants – including Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians, and Parsis — to India from
By Sushil Kutty BJP-hating southerners identify Prime Minister Narendra Modi with everything they believe Indians can live without. With Electoral Bonds. With the Ayodhya Ram Mandir. With the Citizen’s Amendment Rules. With the overbearing nature of BJP leaders. With the breakdown of Rule of Law. With bulldozers running amok. Above
By Harihar Swarup Among the most unexpected entrants in the BJP’s first list of Lok Sabha nominees is Bansuri Swaraj, the 40-year-old daughter of the BJP’s Sushma Swaraj, for whom the late BJP leader was known to leave meetings at times, to rush to be at the bus-stop when Bansuri
By P. Sudhir Three developments in one week – one positive and the other two, negative. The first was the Supreme Court order directing the State Bank of India to submit to the Election Commission by March 12 the details of electoral bonds for the Election Commission to put up
By Dr. Gyan Pathak When politics on the ground is changing faster than a survey can comprehend, changing perhaps on a weekly basis, the opinion polls conducted a fortnight or a month ago lose their validity in the present time, even if we presume that they have been conducted in
By Dr. Gyan Pathak Maharashtra, the second biggest state in India after Uttar Pradesh in terms of Lok Sabha seats, is heading for a rather complex electoral battle, between the NDA alliance (Mahayuti) and INDIA bloc (Maha Vikas Aghadi or MVA), and hence the outcome will likely to throw up
By Dr. Gyan Pathak BJP suffered serious political tremors having epicentre in Haryana on Tuesday which broke the NDA and the chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar had to resign. It’s a serious political development in the country at a time when BJP and PM Narendra Modi have been seeking third
By Nantoo Banerjee The Election Commission of India (ECI) may be trying hard to control questionable electioneering practices which have been increasingly corrupting the process of free and fair election over the years, but it is unlikely to find it easy to influence or direct the behaviour of ruling political
By Harihar Swarup The Rajya Sabha elections have stirred a political commotion, not only because of cross-voting, as has often taken place in the past, but also because the BJP is out to get every seat it can and the defeat of the official Congress candidate in Himachal Pradesh and
By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the BJP inches forward with its seat-sharing exercise with current and potential allies, including its estranged former partners in the NDA, its faultlines, till now given cover by PM Narendra Modi’s authoritarianism, have started coming out into the open. The BJP-BJD alliance talks took a