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By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Dr. Ajoy Kumar tweeted “Morbi bridge collapse is an ‘Act of Fraud’. God’s message to Modi ji”. New Twitter owner Elon Musk wouldn’t object, he is a free speech absolutist. But even he wouldn’t approve of “likes” garnered for being glib about 134 killed, 50 of them children. Also, God […]

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By Arun Srivastava The political developments are not shaping up in consonance to the desires of Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) supremo Nitish Kumar. While he wants that Bihar should strive for bringing the opposition parties on a common platform, allies of his Mahagathbandhan are not putting so much of interest and efforts to achieve […]

The post Nitish Kumar Not Campaigning In Bihar Bypolls Due To Personal Issues first appeared on IPA Newspack.

By Olavo Passos De Souza On Sunday, October 30, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva achieved a historic victory over the incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. In the closest race since the restoration of Brazilian democracy in the 1980s, Bolsonaro became the first incumbent to ever lose reelection. The election divided Brazil between the defense […]

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The Gujarat government’s decision to constitute a committee to implement the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in the state is far-sighted, aimed at the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) insiders believe. Sources in the party feel with the top brass’s focus on ensuring a majority win in the next general elections, the BJP-ruled […]

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Days ahead of Assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh, the ruling BJP on Monday suspended five of its rebel leaders from the primary membership of the party for contesting the election as Independents. Those suspended include former MLAs — Tejwant Singh Negi (Kinnaur), Kishori Lal (Anni), Manohar Dhiman (Indora), K L Thakur (Nalagarh) — and the […]

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Ahead of the November 3 Munugode assembly bypoll, the Election Commission Sunday asked BJP candidate K Rajagopal Reddy to explain the transfer of over Rs 5 crore from his family-owned firm’s account to 23 people and entities within the constituency. In a letter to Reddy, the poll panel has also asked him to ensure that […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty   Latest reports that the BJP leadership has offered a few legislators of the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti a total of Rs. 1,00 crore has created furore in the state capital Hyderabad and as usual the BJP leaders have denied this. But, this type of move by BJP is nothing new. In […]

The post BJP Is Using The Electoral Bonds Scheme To Cripple The Opposition first appeared on IPA Newspack.

Rajasthan Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Sunday alleged that just the way goats are purchased for Eid celebrations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is buying MLAs to topple elected governments in states. He said the BJP had pulled down governments using money power in Arunachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, […]

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The Election Commission is likely to announce schedule for the Gujarat Assembly polls this week. Citing convention followed in 2017, the poll panel had not announced the Gujarat poll schedule when it came out with Himachal Pradesh election dates earlier this month. While election in HP will be held in a single phase on November […]

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By Sushil Kutty Perhaps the Election Commission wants to give Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi more time to dog-whistle the Gujarat electorate with election-oriented development projects, like the Tata-Airbus C-295, and bombard voters with election-winning poll-promises which may or may not be kept. Gujarat is Narendra Modi’s home-state. Also, the laboratory where the Gujarat […]

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By Arun Srivastava Only after six days of the Supreme Court passing stringent orders to the police chiefs of Delhi, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh to file suo motu cases against hate speeches made by people from any religion, and warned of contempt action if the orders of the court are not complied with, the proactive […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayawati is busy these days to enlarge the support base of her party to face civic polls and later on Lok Sabha polls in 2024. After worst ever performance in Uttar Pradesh assembly polls held in March this year, Mayawati is working very hard to […]

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Aam Aadmi Party boss Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday launched a crowdsourcing campaign to select the party’s Chief Ministerial candidate for the Gujarat elections as part of its efforts to trump the BJP in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state. The “Choose Your Chief Minister” campaign is the latest push by the Delhi Chief Minister who […]

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By James M Dorsey The threats to Israel’s existence as a democratic Jewish state have multiplied and could weaken or undermine a pillar of Israeli national security: unquestioned US support. Rising anti-Semitism among Christian nationalists, together with Evangelicals, the mainstay of US grassroots support for Israel, threatens to drive a wedge between the community and […]

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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav has alleged that the Election Commission did not follow rules while preparing the voters’ list in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls earlier this year. He alleged that there is a “conspiracy” by the BJP government to suppress the voice of the opposition. “Had the Election Commission followed rules regarding electoral […]

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The Election Commission (EC) issued a notice to Telangana’s Energy Minister Jagadish Reddy on Friday for allegedly threatening voters, saying all welfare schemes will be stopped if they do not vote for the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) candidate in the upcoming Munugode bypoll. The poll panel has given Reddy time till 3 pm on […]

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Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s assembly seat was declared vacant by the Uttar Pradesh speaker this evening, formalising his disqualification as the MLA from the Rampur seat. Mr Khan, Vidhan sabha sources told NDTV, was automatically disqualified on Thursday, when he was sentenced to three years in prison for a 2019 hate speech against Prime […]

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By Binoy Viswam The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India will be marked as the Congress of confidence and rejuvenated spirit. The Party Congress held in the historic city of Vijayawada gave new impetus to the Party to march forward. Each moment of the Congress from October 14 to 18 was full of […]

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By Prakash Karat Kerala is witnessing the spectacle of a governor who is out of control. One day he is demanding the resignation of all the vice chancellors of Kerala universities and on another day he “withdraws pleasure” from a minister in the government and asks the chief minister to remove him from the cabinet. […]

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By Sushil Kutty Congress leader Shashi Tharoor started the whole shebang. And he couldn’t have been more specious. “Shouldn’t India have a Muslim Prime Minister now that Britain has a Hindu Prime Minister?” Problem is Tharoor gets away with the contentious just because he throws worthless words like “floccinaucinihilipilification” to score brownie points Floccinaucinihilipilification’s dictionary […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Chief Minister of Delhi and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal accused the BJP on Wednesday of building three garbage mountains in 15 years and filling the national capital with waste, and then visited the largest site at Ghazipur today, that became a scene with BJP workers protesting with black flags and sloganeering […]

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By Satyaki Chakraborty Brazil’s Presidential frontrunner Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as Lula is set to win in the crucial elections on October 30. Just seventy-two hours before the elections, the opinion polls give Lula a handsome margin of six to seven percent as against the incumbent far right candidate Jair Bolsonaro. The […]

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