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By Sushil Kutty It’s confirmed. Elections, combined with the politics swirling around them, brings the worst out of politicians, and political parties. Witness what has been happening in Gujarat, and in Delhi with the MCD elections, which has a 15 year anti-incumbency pulling back on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s chances of making it fourth time […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday targeted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for walking with Narmada Bachao Andolan activist Medha Patkar during the Bharat Jodo Yatra. “A Congress leader was seen taking out a padyatra with a woman who stalled the Narmada dam project for three decades,” Modi said, addressing a rally at Dhoraji in the […]

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Though frowned upon and favoured in equal measures by parties of different hues, dynastic politics is a traditional feature of electoral contests in the country and the next month’s Gujarat Assembly polls are no exception. The ruling BJP and opposition Congress have together fielded sons of sitting and former MLAs in at least 20 of […]

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Gujarat will today witness high voltage campaigning ahead of Assembly elections scheduled for next month, as all top leaders of the top three parties staking claim to power will address several rallies across the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address three back-to-back ‘Vijay Sankalp Sammelan’ rallies of his party BJP, Union Home Minister Amit […]

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The leaders of Gujarat Congress have deliberately desisted from any direct attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi during their campaign in the run-up to assembly polls next month. Terming the prime minister ‘Ghar ka Ladka’, Congress’ Nadiad candidate Dhruval Patel said: “Even though our ‘Ghar ka Ladka’ may be ‘badmaash’, we do not go outside […]

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An Uttar Pradesh IAS officer has been removed as a general observer for Gujarat assembly polls by the Election Commission for indulging in a “publicity stunt” by posting pictures of his assignment on Instagram, sources said on Friday. In a strongly-worded letter to the chief electoral officer of Gujarat on Friday, EC said the 2011 […]

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The BJP on Friday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for marching with activist Medha Patkar on his Bharat Jodo Yatra march that is traversing the length of the country. “Congress and Rahul Gandhi have time and again shown their animosity towards Gujarat and Gujaratis. By giving Medha Patkar a central place in his […]

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By Rahil Nora Chopra Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra will reach Madhya Pradesh, entering it from the Burhanpur district on November 20. This would the seventh state of the Yatra, which has by now acquired a cult following. According to sources, Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to visit two Jyotirlinga temples: Omkareshwar in Khandwa […]

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By Prakash Karat Some of the recent positions and steps taken by the Election Commission (EC) of India do no credit to its well-earned reputation of being an impartial arbiter and supervisor of free and fair elections, a role vested in it by the Indian Constitution. In the last few years, particularly after the Modi […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP is desperate to win Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-election to  make significant dent in what is known as yadavland to demoralise Samajwadi Party before crucial 2024 Lok Sabha polls. It would be worth mentioning here the Mainpuri by-election is taking place on December 5 following demise of sitting MP and founder […]

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will officially blow the campaign bugle for the Gujarat Assembly polls on November 20, when he is scheduled to hold three public meetings in Saurashtra region. The prime minister is expected to hold about 30 rallies across the state over the campaign. Earlier, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had estimated that […]

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By Sushil Kutty It is a small world, and sound travels far. Otherwise how could America’s  former President Donald Trump echo Prime Minister Narendra Modi?  Announcing his 2024 bid for the White House, Trump said, “This is not my campaign, this will be our campaign”. And television host Sean Hannity gushed, “Great line, if he […]

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By Harihar Swarup Kashmir’s politics is likely to witness a major change, Separatist leader Bilal Gani Lone is preparing to bid farewell to separatism and enter the mainstream politics.. Bilal is elder son of Abdul Gani Lone, the Hurriyat Conference leader who founded the People Conference. Considered a moderate who had wide support across north […]

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The premature release of 11 convicts in the 2002 Bilkis Bano gangrape case has become part of political and electoral discourse in Gujarat in run-up to the next month’s Assembly polls with the opposition Congress mentioning about the episode in its poll manifesto and vowing to ensure justice to the survivor. A section of observers […]

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By Tirthankar Mitra Even as panchayat election is inching closer, north Bengal is in the news for the wrong reasons.  The demand for a separate state or Union Territory has resurfaced. The present scenario, however, differs from the one which arose last year when BJP MP John Barla and MLAs Anandamoy Barman and Sikha Chatterjee […]

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By Arun Srivastava Like an incompetent carpenter who blames the tools for his bad work, Prime Minister Narendra Modi too has started playing the victim card having failed to keep his promises made to the people and provide a people oriented governance. Modi has come to realise that his popularity and charisma were on the […]

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Political strategist turned activist Prashant Kishor ruled out the possibility of contesting elections himself, but reiterated his pledge to build a “better alternative” for his home state of Bihar. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, he also lambasted JD(U) leaders for alleging that he was a “dhandhebaaz” (trader) with little political acumen, and challenged […]

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be campaigning in Gujarat on November 22. He will visit Gujarat during a break from Congress party’s ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra. Elections are scheduled to be held in Gujarat in two phases, on December 1 and 5. Votes will be counted on December 8. The former Congress president has been […]

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By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav is facing biggest challenge to defend Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat lying vacant after the demise of his father Mulayam Singh Yadav who recently passed away. Taking this challenge seriously Akhilesh Yadav decided to field his wife Dimple Yadav to face the by-election scheduled for December […]

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By Harihar Swarup With the Election Commission firing the starter’s gun for the Gujarat assembly elections, one thing is clear. The real fight is over who is best positioned to challenged the multi—decade positioned political hegemony of BJP. Will it be AAP or Congress? So it A (APP) versus B (BJP) versus C (Congress)? What […]

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By Ashis Biswas In Meghalaya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as a small entity within the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government, starts its pre-2023 Assembly poll campaign with a handicap against rival, the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Led by former Congress leader Mukul Sangma, the TMC has 12 members in the 60-strong state Assembly and […]

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The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) entered into a pre-poll alliance for the next month’s Gujarat Assembly elections, as part of which the Sharad Pawar-led party will contest three of the total 182 seats in the state, the leaders of the two parties announced here on Friday. In the 2017 Assembly elections, the […]

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BJP has attacked AAP over the inclusion of MLA Rajendra Pal Gautam as a star campaigner for the MCD polls. The saffron party accused AAP of taking an “anti-Hindu” stand. Gautam had resigned last month from the Arvind Kejriwal-led government after courting controversy over attending a religious conversion programme in which Hindu deities were allegedly […]

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