Amitabh Dubey tells @Sravastidasgup2 that with the low voter turnout in the first two phases of the #LokSabhaElections , the BJP is attempting to distract voters from key issues of unemployment and inflation by communalising the polls.

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“..it is unique – positively epochal – how young people have come together for a cause beyond their immediate surroundings. For all the criticism of the TikTok generation, it is clear for all to see that they do not posture fruitlessly”
Soumashree ⬇️

#LokSabha2024 | EC Notice No Bar, BJP’s Star Campaigners Echo Modi’s Communal Pitch

BJP’s star campaigners have continued to amplify misleading claims around the Congress manifesto and former PM Manmohan Singh’s 2006 speech.

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In Mohammad Akhlaq’s Dadri, Locals Rally Against BJP, Religious Polarisation | Sravasti Dasgupta reports

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Unlike EVMs that beep when pressed, the EC did not for days. Its non-notice to party presidents makes it a sad day for India
It was good to be able to call several spades, well, several spades with Sravasti Dasgupta and Anjali Bhardwaj
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“We are all supporters of Modi and BJP but the problem is Mahesh Sharma. We need to teach them a lesson. Once BJP votes are cut they will realise their mistake of putting up this candidate and taking us for granted,” said Akhil Rana
Why locals in Dadri are rallying against BJP⬇️

In Mohammad Akhlaq’s Dadri, Locals Rally Against BJP, Religious Polarisation.
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#LokSabha2024 | In Mohammad Akhlaq’s Dadri, Locals Rally Against BJP, Religious Polarisation

As the BJP once again sets a communal narrative around elections, locals voice disenchantment over urban-rural wedge in development.

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Three Days After Modi's Rajasthan Speech, EC Issues Notice to BJP – And to Congress Too

Signed by principal secretary Narendra N. Butolia, the EC's near-identical letters are both dated April 25 and were sent to presidents of BJP and Congress

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With the communal pot kept boiling, students who constitute young voters – a key constituency wooed by Modi too – say that they are battling politics of hatred + looking for answers to their concerns of employment. ⁦Sravasti Dasgupta⁩ from Aligarh thewire.in/communalism/on…

How AMU remained at the centre of BJP’s Aligarh politics
Students battle politics of hatred,concerns of employment as institutional assault on democratic educ institutions intensified in the Modi decade by fund cuts even as BJP co-opted elites while demonising common Muslims⬇️

On Campus and Beyond, Aligarh Muslim University Is at Centre of UP BJP's Communal Politics Sravasti Dasgupta #Communalism m.thewire.in/article/commun…

On Campus and Beyond, Aligarh Muslim University Is at Centre of UP BJP's Communal Politics

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Mathura: “Hema Malini is MP for 10 years but visits Mathura only before elex, has never come to our villages. The whole village is unhappy with her candidature, again. We will vote for BJP but with a heavy heart...” a retired school teacher told Sravasti Roy thewire.in/politics/mathu…

As PM and BJP place the Ram Temple at centre of their campaign,in UP’s Mathura – the site of another looming temple-mosque dispute – locals ask of unemployment, inflation,disenchantment over “missing” MP Hema Malini’s third successive candidature as brand Modi remains intact ⬇️

#Mathura | Disenchantment Over Unemployment, Inflation, Hema Malini, But Brand Modi and Mandir Shine

As the BJP places the Ayodhya Ram Temple at the centre of its campaign, its old slogan of “Kashi-Mathura ab baqi hai” looms in Mathura

Sravasti Dasgupta✍️
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#LokSabha2024 | All Eyes on Election Commission as Modi Gives His Most Communal Speech in 30 Years

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#LokSabha2024 | Parts of Modi's Speech That Violate MCC Missing from English Summary on PM's Website

The full Hindi text of the speech is conspicuously missing too.

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#Interview | Modi's Third Term, 400-Seat Target 'Far-Fetched': Shashi Tharoor

Shashi Tharoor said the 'BJP has literally nothing to point to in Kerala in their ten years of rule'. | Sravasti Dasgupta✍️

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