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By Harihar Swarup “I am strict and I may be stern but I’m always fair and transparent. You get what you see”. This is one side. This was how T N Seshan, arguably, the Chief Election Commissioner who made the Election Commission of India an admired institution, used to describe himself. Then he would add […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Dearness allowance of workers, retirement benefits, and even death gratuity among other benefits have been put on hold in India. The reason being the Union Government led by PM Narendra Modi did not release the All India Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers (AICPI-IW) since February 2024, from the eve of […]

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Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge had a witty response ready when he was asked, yet again, who would be the Prime Ministerial candidate of the INDIA bloc. “It’s like asking ‘Kaun Banega Crorepati’,” Kharge said, referring to the popular TV quiz show hosted by Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan. “If we form the government, all the leaders

By K Raveendran In asserting his ‘indestructability’, Narendra Modi has taken a leaf out of the books of Arab rulers, who assiduously promote the idea that rulers are God’s representatives on Earth. This belief has been historically used by Arab monarchs to legitimize their rule and suppress dissent. In what is seen as a most […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the penultimate phase of Lok Sabha Election 2024 on May 25, BJP has been facing the most difficult electoral battle so far in Uttar Pradesh. This is the sixth phase of election in which 14 Lok Sabha constituencies are going to poll. BJP and INDIA bloc candidates are in neck […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty The first five phases of polling for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections are over by now, with only 115 seats out of the total of 543 remaining for voting in the next two phases. The results will be out on June 4. In the last few days, all top leaders of the […]

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By K Raveendran The Election Commission of India (ECI) has wielded its regulatory wand, imposing a ban on exit polls between April 19 and June 1. During this period, media outlets are forbidden from publishing predictions or survey results. The rationale behind this prohibition is clear: to prevent undue influence on voters during the crucial […]

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By Arun Srivastava It was inevitable. It was to happen. Never before in its hundred years of existence, no Sarasaṅghacālaka, chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the right-wing organisation, the parent entente of the BJP, had faced this nature of humiliation as the incumbent Mohan Bhagwat has to suffer from none else but by […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee Any prediction of the possible outcome of the ongoing Parliamentary election is becoming increasingly tough in the absence of a visible wave in favour of either the rightist Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) or its principal opposition, a 26-party political combine, Indian National Development Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). The latter is […]

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi died after his helicopter crashed in the mountains yesterday. Raisi was in line to be Iran’s next supreme leader, along with a clampdown on morality questions. Raisi’s hardline position had been all pervasive in domestic politics while he governed through a severe economic crisis and a historic escalation of the country’s […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Election Commission of India (ECI) had announced “No Violence” stand in West Bengal on March 4, only 12 days before announcement of Lok Sabha general election 2024, on March 16. However, election related violence continued across the country in various shades with varied intensity of seriousness. Now, to control post-poll violence […]

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Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, accompanied by senior leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), ahead of a planned march to the BJP headquarters today declared that Prime Minister Narendra Modi can send anyone he wishes to jail. Kejriwal alleged that the BJP sees AAP as a threat, prompting what he terms “Operation Jhaadu” – […]

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By Arun Srivastava After a epoch making victory in 2020 assembly election in Bihar, in which the CPI(ML) Liberation won 12 out of 16 it contested, the party is quite hopeful of sending its representatives to the Lok Sabha this time. In that election the three main Left parties had won 16 of the 29 […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Freebees, promised and actually delivered, have been by and large welcomed by the electorate over 40 years of age across the country throughout the first five phases of election campaigns. However, sharp fall in employment has made the unemployed youth little more concerned, though PM Narendra Modi tried his best to […]

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By K Raveendran The Supreme Court decision to declare the arrest of Prabir Purkayastha, founder of news website NewsClick as illegal has reignited the debate on the delicate balance between national security concerns and individual liberty. While Purkayastha’s release is a positive development, the court’s reasoning raises questions about the potential for continued arbitrary arrests […]

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By Sushil Kutty Fact-checker Muhammed Zubair checked and declared Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not speak the truth. Modi did indeed do ‘Hindu-Muslim’ as he went about drumming support from Hindus. But Zubair stopped short of asking Modi to “quit public life” as Modi said he would if he ever did ‘Hindu-Muslim’. Prime Minister Narendra […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The first four phases of Lok Sabha election 2024 concluded on May 13, has brought serious level of anxiety in BJP leadership, chiefly PM Narendra Modi, who is seeking re-election for his third term. Contrary to his great hope on Hindi heartland, the party did not perform so well as to […]

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By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to note that India’s defence manufacturing industry is fast emerging as a major contributor to the country’s economy and quietly supporting the latest stock market surge. Defence manufacturers have never had it so good. The private sector defence manufacturing enterprises are doing extremely well alongside the traditional government-run publicly […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s top political adversary put behind bar with announcement of Lok Sabha Election is finally out in the electoral battlefield on the closing day of fourth phase of election campaign. Though he will have only few hours to campaign for the fourth phase of election scheduled on May […]

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Opposition leaders are being targeted by poll officials, the Congress alleged on Sunday, claiming that while its chief Mallikarjun Kharge’s helicopter was checked in Bihar’s Samastipur, leaders of the BJP-led NDA were being allowed to move “freely”. Mr Kharge on Saturday addressed back-to-back Lok Sabha election rallies in Samastipur and Muzaffarpur in the state. Congress […]

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By K Raveendran In granting interim relief to Kejriwal, the Supreme Court has shown the willingness to go beyond technicalities and take a ‘political’ stand against what has been widely seen as a political arrest by the Modi government. The decision by the bench comprising Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta will be remembered for […]

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By Girish Linganna The US President, Joe Biden, is facing political challenges as he attempts to navigate the demands of both the Israel lobby and its critics. This has led to perceptions of his weakness and ineffectiveness. With the election just six months away, Biden is struggling with a significant foreign policy issue. On Monday […]

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By P. Sudhir Elections to half the seats in the Lok Sabha have been completed with the third phase of polling being over on May 7. This has provided enough experience and time to assess how the Election Commission (EC) has gone about superintending the conduct of a free and fair poll. The verdict in […]

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By Arun Srivastava With the passing of every phase, the anguish gripping the RSS and traditional BJP cadres and supporters is getting more pronounced and discernible, notwithstanding the attempts of the top RSS leaders to make them relent and ensure the victory of the BJP candidates. Much against the argument positioned forward by the RSS […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak In the beginning, Narendra Modi promised “good days”, but it didn’t come even after 10 long years of his rule in India. Then there was opposition’s hue and cry against him. General Election 2024 was knocking at the door. Under his nose, in the capital city, his seat of power, the […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak The crucial third phase of Lok Sabha election is most likely to bring more seats in the BJP’s bag compared to the first and second phase of elections, but it is not bringing any cheer on PM Narendra Modi’s face. Conversely, the struggle of the BJP in retaining its seat, and […]

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By Arun Srivastava Narendra Modi expressing joy and taking jibe at Rahul Gandhi’s candidature from Rae Bareli shows that the man is blinded by political arrogance and overconfidence. His remark “Daro mat, bhago mat”, implying that Rahul left the Amethi seat out of fear, is simply empty electoral rhetoric wrapped in perception of joyous misreading […]

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By K Raveendran Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi raises the shrillness of his attack on Rahul Gandhi, aligning with a new phase of BJP’s identity politics, he is doing the Gandhi scion a great favour. Modi, on his part, seems to have settled the issue of the prime ministerial face of the opposition INDIA […]

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With Rahul Gandhi deciding to contest the Raebareli Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh as well, there were mixed reactions from people in Kerala’s Wayanad. Elections were held in Wayanad Lok Sabha seat on April 26. While some people said there was nothing wrong for him to contest Raebareli too, there were some who said […]

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By Dr. Gyan Pathak Regular workers’ real wages have been declining by one per cent every year under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s regime. However, BJP’s election manifesto and Modi’s guarantees have left this issue untouched, and used the word “wages” only twice, while giving the guarantee of periodic review of national floor wages. There is […]

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By Nitya Chakraborty Narendra Modi during his campaign for the Prime Ministership in 2013 and early months of 2014 focused mainly on corruption of the UPA-2 government in the last two years of its tenure and promised to the Indian voters a corruption-free government in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The Congress stuck by the developments […]

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Hitting back hard at the BJP’s allegations that his party’s manifesto speaks about wealth redistribution and an inheritance tax, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has said that the ruling party is talking about the document even without reading it and every charge levelled on this front is “completely concocted by its propaganda machinery”. Speaking exclusively to […]

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  Sexual harassment allegations and street protests by the country’s top wrestlers may cost BJP heavyweight and six-time MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh an opportunity to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Sources in the BJP have told NDTV that the former national wrestling boss may not get a ticket this time from Kaiserganj in […]

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By K Raveendran The Supreme Court’s probing questions about the timing of arrests by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of political figures spotlight growing concerns about the propriety and implications of such actions, especially when juxtaposed with the electoral calendar. The apex court’s concerns telescope the potential misuse of central agencies as instruments of political influence, […]

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