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After the ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra, an apparent ‘Mahila Jodo Yatra’ by the Congress is on the cards. Party sources say that the plan is to reach out to women voters ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. While the average turnout of women voters during the 2019 elections went up to about 68%, the […]

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Senior BJP leaders from Gujarat hailed the exit polls predicting a big majority for the BJP, saying the party was going to script new history in the state. But the Congress, however, disagreed with the predictions of a comfortable win for its arch rival in Himachal Pradesh and said the grand old party was sure […]

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Farooq Abdullah was re-elected as the president of the National Conference (NC) for another term on Monday.  The leader on Monday made a controversial statement, saying that when he was the chief minister, Army had captured a polling booth and did not allow people to exercise their right in Doda. “The voting machine was kept inside an army camp. […]

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  By Dr. Gyan Pathak It was as clear as a crystal even during the pre-budget consultations of the Union Ministry of Finance for the fiscal 2023-24 on November 25 that the fiscal positions of most of the sates were in dire situation, and now, when the budget exercise has begun in right earnest, Modi […]

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By Sushil Kutty It is now to wait for the counting of votes. In between, there are the exit polls and people will get a glimpse of what’s in store. A couple of opinion polls have been generous to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, giving the BJP 130-plus seats in Gujarat. Winning Gujarat is crucial for […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the Bharat Jodo Yatra is teaching him things that cannot be learnt “while travelling in an aeroplane, a helicopter or any vehicle”, as the march entered party-ruled Rajasthan from Madhya Pradesh to a grand welcome by party workers here. Gandhi and his fellow yatris were received at Chanwli […]

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The Assam version of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ of the Congress has completed one month. It started from Dhubri district and is set to cover a distance of 834 km from Dhubri to Sadiya before it ends in mid-December. The state leaders launched the yatra from Golakganj town in Dhubri district near the India-Bangladesh border […]

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More than 50 per cent voting was recorded on Sunday in the election to the 250 municipal wards in Delhi, with main rivals BJP and AAP claiming victory in the high-stakes contest. No major glitches in electronic voting machines were reported and the voting passed off peacefully with high security observed at the 3,360 critical […]

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Those who select Muslim women to run for office are against Islam and are weakening the religion, the chief cleric of the Jama Masjid in Ahmedabad said on Sunday, in a stunningly misogynistic comment, a day before the second phase of voting for the Gujarat elections. “If you talk about Islam, see there’s nothing more […]

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By Arun Srivastava With Narendra Modi‘s archetypal Hindutva political edifice developing cracks and the party device finding it incapable to withstand the onslaught of Congress Party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the BJP top leaders have preferred to adopt a more virulent and belligerent posture against Rahul Gandhi. Adopting aggressive stance is the best mechanism for both […]

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By James M Dorsey Hungary didn’t qualify for the Qatar World Cup, but that hasn’t stopped Prime Minister Victor Orban from exploiting the world’s current focus on soccer to signal his Putinesque definition of central European borders as defined by civilization and ethnicity rather than internationally recognized frontiers. Orban drew the ire of Ukraine and […]

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By Dave Kempa As California’s midterm election results are finalized, it’s clear that the Left has pulled together an impressive string of wins over the Democratic Party establishment. San Franciscans passed numerous housing-related ballot measures championed by Supervisor Dean Preston, who is a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Across the Bay, Oakland progressives […]

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With the end of campaigning for the Gujarat Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has set its next target, and without wasting any time the party has lined up a series of high-level meetings with ministers and office bearers to discuss the preparation for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. BJP National President J.P. Nadda […]

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By Sushil Kutty Actor Paresh Rawal might be mistaken for a pomfret. Rawal’s wisecrack about ‘Fish & Bengali’ has landed him in shark-infested waters. He should have stuck to ‘Fish & Chips’. And, if Rawal ever strays into the Bengali hemisphere, (Bangladesh included), he had better look out for Hilsa; it will not bite him! […]

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There is a clear anti-incumbency wave against the BJP government in Gujarat due to which Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned aggressively in the state, Rajasthan Chief minister Ashok Gehlot said on Friday. Gehlot took stock of preparations at Chanwali village in Jhalawar district ahead of the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi entering the […]

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Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh (BMS), the RSS-affiliated central trade union, has urged the Central government to restore the old pension scheme. The demand was made during Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s meeting with RSS leaders that took place between November 21 and November 29. The meeting was the part of the exercise in which the Finance […]

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The Chhattisgarh assembly on Friday unanimously adopted two Bills to enhance the state’s overall reservation to 76 per cent in jobs and educational institutions — possibly the highest in India — in a strategic move by Bhupesh Baghel’s Congress government that other parties may find hard to oppose. The Bills, if and when granted assent by the […]

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The Congress today saw another “gaddar” (traitor) jibe thrown around as its communications in-charge, Jairam Ramesh, went for some bite when asked if Jyotiraditya Scindia, a former Congress “young turk” who is now a BJP minister, could come back to the party. “Scindia is a gaddar (traitor), true gaddar, real gaddar and 24-carat gaddar,” Ramesh […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak As the election campaign ends on December 2, the high-profile Municipal Corporation of Delhi election remains by and large bipolar, Congress too cannot be discounted in the fray since several of its candidates have gained upper hand in triangular fight in many wards. For Congress it is a question of revival, […]

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By Sushil Kutty The uncharitable will say Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s convoy should have given way to the ambulance much earlier, not wait for a turn in the road, and that the ambulance, on a medical emergency, must have been held up on the straight behind Modi’s poll-festooned saffron-garlanded SUV for kilometres. The nasty fellow […]

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National political parties in India have received Rs 3,807.83 crore as contributions in excess of Rs 20,000 from individual donors and entities between the financial years 2017-18 and 2021-22, and have witnessed a jump of 65 per cent during this period, official Election Commission data analysed by News18 shows. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is accountable […]

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BJP leaders, including Union ministers, mounted a joint attack against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday, saying he has looted Delhi by giving protection to the corrupt and is now looking to loot the municipal corporation. Campaigning for various party candidates in different wards ahead of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls, the BJP […]

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