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Calling the idea of holding simultaneous elections as ‘undemocratic’ and against the guarantees of federalism and the basic structure of the Constitution, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge demanded dissolution of the high-powered committee formed to study it. In a letter to the secretary of the committee on one nation, one election, he requested former president Ram […]

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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has told district leaders of the Trinamool Congress to be prepared to field candidates in all the three Lok Sabha seats in Murshidabad district, sources said. Ms Banerjee’s instruction to her party was seen as posturing to its INDIA bloc partner Congress, headed by Mallikarjun Kharge. The Congress is yet […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The first week of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra has stirred the politics in the North East India. The political churning that began with former Congress President Rahul Gandhi led Yatra launch on January 14 from Toubal in Manipur has already alarmed the BJP leaders, especially Himanta Biswa Sarma, the Chief Minister […]

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By Arun Srivastava More than the leadership of the Congress and Samajwadi Party, it is the media, which is relatively inquisitive and worried about the two parties still not resolving the contentious issue of seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh. While the leaders of two parties express their gratification at the pace and dimension of the […]

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By Sushil Kutty Is India awash in religion? India cannot help itself. Religion is so mixed with politics and everyday life in India that it bristles. This, despite the country’s apex court asserting in1994 that mixing religion with politics was fraught with danger. Today, the same Supreme Court has by far a far more liberal […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra To consolidate its EBC, OBC and Dalit vote bank ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Nitish Kumar-led government in Bihar has passed a proposal to provide financial assistance of Rs 2 lakh each to more than 94 lakh families identified based on the recently conducted caste survey. A proposal […]

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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said he is “unlikely” to join Congress’ “Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra” led by Rahul Gandhi. When asked about this at a press conference at the party office here, Yadav said, “Neither the Congress nor the BJP invites us to their programmes.” Yadav, who flagged off “Samvidhan Bachao, Desh […]

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To counter the Opposition narrative on the Pran Pratishtha ceremony as a “political” event, the RSS, its affiliates, like-minded intellectuals, authors and academics have come up with their literature and started social media campaigns “based on their research” to promote Ram Temple as Bharat’s “civilisational” movement and its struggle for decades to find space. Over […]

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NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections this year, the Government may double the insurance cover under its flagship Ayushman Bharat health scheme to Rs 10 lakh to ensure that serious diseases like cancer and transplants that entail more expenditure are supported by it. Plans are also afoot to include Kisan Samman Nidhi recipients, […]

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DAVOS: The global leadership is convinced that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will return to office after this year’s elections and is looking for the continuity of policy and social sector reforms put in place by him, Union Minister Smriti Irani said on Wednesday. In an interview to PTI at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Ramlalla Virajman in Ayodhya is still at the makeshift temple. Tomorrow, on January 19, He, in the form of a 9 inch idol has been reported to be shifted to His new abode still under-construction, just to be reduced to occupy secondary place in front of the 51-inch RSS-VHP-BJP’s make idol, […]

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By P. Sudhir The consecration of the Ram temple at Ayodhya on January 22 will symbolise the merger of State and religion under the rubric of Hindutva. Central to the `Pran Pratishtha’ of the idol of Lord Ram will be the role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underlining the fact that this is a State-sponsored […]

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By Arun Srivastava Seat Sharing is the vital component of the electoral strategy, but for leaders of INDIA bloc of Jharkhand, using the forum for espousing the cause of the adivasis and poor and fight for their identity and welfare is the primary mission. Leaving aside one or two seats, the opposition leaders have succeeded […]

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By Sushil Kutty The Congress has appointed YS Sharmila, the party chief of Andhra Pradesh. But Sharmila, who is the politically estranged sister of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, has a rather weak Andhra Pradesh unit of the Congress to fight her brother Jagan, who in turn is fighting anti-incumbency as well […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday strongly defended the party’s decision to not attend the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22 saying the event has been made into a “Narendra Modi and RSS-BJP function” with an “election flavour”. “The RSS and the BJP have made the January 22 function a […]

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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday predicted that the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will emerge as the single-largest party in the upcoming Lok Sabha 2024 elections. He, however, said the BJP can be stopped from achieving the feat by significantly bringing down its seat tally and forcing its allies to lose confidence in the National […]

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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener, Arvind Kejriwal, is set to leave for a three-day visit to Goa on Thursday (January 18), the same day he has been asked to present himself for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the Delhi excise case. Kejriwal, along with Punjab CM […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial inauguration of Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 will also mark the beginning of BJP’s campaign for Lok Sabah General Election 2024. Religious events, including fetching large number of Hindu devotees to Ayodhya Ramlala Darshan free of cost for the next two months, will be […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed confidence on Tuesday that the seat-sharing issues among the INDIA bloc partners will be resolved and claimed that the coalition will defeat the BJP in this year’s Lok Sabha polls. He also said there is mutual respect and affection between the leaders of the INDIA bloc, which he asserted is […]

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Fitch has affirmed India’s sovereign rating at ‘BBB-’ with a stable outlook citing a robust medium-term growth outlook and sound external finances. The agency, however, flagged the country’s weak public finances as the “largest constraint” to the rating. The rating agency revised its growth projection for FY24 to 6.9% from the 6% forecast earlier. Fitch […]

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