#ElectoralBonds | If so many examples of quid pro quo are visible in the moth-eaten electoral-bonds data in public purview, the sheer magnitude of favours bought by the summation of corporate donations boggles the mind.

Nileena MS & Swetha Kadiyala:
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#LokSabhaElections2024 | In #TamilNadu , where Hindutva has little purchase, Annamalai's BJP is consolidating dominant caste associations to push his Coimbatore campaign.

Sujatha Sivagnanam reports.
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are they a little on the edge? i mean does anyone not know which way this sycophant leans.

#Error404 पत्रकारिता मतलब अपने जिस काम से मीडिया संस्थान-पत्रकारों ने पहचान बनायी, नाम कमाया और पैर जमाए, अब वही रिपोर्ट, वही काम कंधे का बोझ लगने लगा है. डिलीट करना, डिजिटल प्लेटफॉर्म से हटाकर सत्ता को ख़ुश करने का एक और तरीक़ा कि हम तुम्हारे, तुम्हारे हैं ऽऽऽ

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Former EC SY Quraishi was clear things went downhill from 2019. “...it became increasingly embarrassing to evade commenting...during the 2019 general election when I said the credibility of ECI coming into question pains me.”

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this is not a pulwama election. where the opposition has understood this and worked on local factors there will be a fight. unfortunately in the hindi belt this is unlikely to include constituencies where there is a direct bjp vs congress battle.

'There has been a huge religious divide, of the kind I never saw growing up...which is why I have campaigned extensively in the non-Muslim villages so that they can connect to me and I to them. This is what the area needs most”.
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“…people ask why the BJP has given so many tickets to the Jats and none to a Kashyap or anyone from an extremely backward caste. Will our position in politics always be of those at the lower levels, where we serve water and help organise events?” m.thewire.in/article/politi…

bjp goes ram ram on Twitter, DD goes saffron on its logo, the EC does what is does best when it comes to modi’s flock - twiddle its thumbs.

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now i understand why they have a problem with eggs in mid-day meals

right before meeting modi !

...in 2019 survey, more than half of the voters had signalled they had a great amount of trust in the EC, this time around only 28 % were left with 'great trust'

the undermining of this public trust is the story leading up to this election

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those interviewed point to the impact of Chinese encroachment & changes to the control of contested lands over time, including from 2020, “We know the ground situation. If the (Indian) govt says we haven't lost an inch, then whatever we've lost is already lost.”

there is something utterly stupid and degrading about the kind of politics the RSS worldview engenders, maybe that is why it works among modi supporters.

what a bunch of jokers.

i think their next great achievement would be to invent the candle.

आज रात 10 बजे हमारे साथ जुड़ें 'लोकतंत्र माइनस मीडिया बराबर क्या?' विषय पर चर्चा के लिए एक्स स्पेस में, जिसमें ‘मीडिया का लोकतंत्र’ किताब के हवाले से लेखक vineet kumar से बातचीत करेंगे The Caravan के राजनीतिक संपादक Hartosh Singh Bal; The Wire की संपादक Seema Chishti और

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so reproducing a newspaper report is misleading and malicious? what idiocy. this ministry, like most ministries under modi, is staffed by those who lack the ability to think