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#LokSabhaElections2024 | The BJP’s state president, Sukanta Majumdar, won the Balurghat seat in 2019 by less than three points. The AITC gained more than double that margin in 2021, leading the BJP in the constituency by nearly ninety thousand votes.
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Since 2014, liberals witnessed the Islamophobia, the lynchings of Muslims, the anti-intellectual environment in which all dissent was portrayed as “anti-national” and deluded themselves into believing that all this would not enjoy lasting popular support.
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#LokSabhaElections2024 | “Whether it is Shashi Tharoor or Pannyan Raveendran or Modi, it makes no difference to us,” Fathi Mary said. “I am not going to vote for anyone. If there is no candidate who will resolve our problems, why should I vote?”
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#LokSabhaElections2024 | Rather than denounce the temple project for the violence it had fomented, the Congress wants a share of credit in its completion.
“We are also attached to Ram Mandir. Ram belongs to all of us,” Kamble said.
ആതിര | Aathira reports.
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#LokSabhaElections2024 | “We told the candidates what had happened, but what can they do in front of the police?” Abrar added.
“This whole thing was meant to bully us into voting for the BJP.”
Sunil Kashyap reports from #UttarPradesh .
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#LokSabhaElections2024 | “The voters are silent,” Arvind Patel said. Although some people were campaigning for the BJP, he added, “their heart is not in it.”
#UttarPradesh
Read Sunil Kashyap and Sibtain Hyder's report from #Bareilly .
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#PrajwalRevannaCase | “The first thought that came to our minds was about the effect of the videos on the lives of the women, their families, and the children,” Rupa Hassan, an author and activist, told Sujatha Sivagnanam.
“We tried to reach out to the victims since we heard about…
#LokSabhaElections2024 | “The prime minister is bringing back the ghosts of 1998, the ghosts that the city has forgotten with great difficulty and after paying a heavy price,”: author S Ezhirko, better known as Paamaran.
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#LokasabhaElection2024 | At any other time, these failures would be enough to unseat an incumbent government.
But why is it that, today, almost no one believes that Modi will lose power?
Read our latest cover story by Hartosh Singh Bal.
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#PrajwalRevannaCase | Fear and feudalism in Hassan: How politics and the state let down sexual assault victims.
Between an uncaring judiciary, a suspicious town and an ugly political slugfest over a crime whose magnitude has few parallels in Karnataka’s history, the women of…
#LokasabhaElection2024 | The Congress cannot pose a challenge either on Hindutva or on representation. It remains a default alternative, hoping for the BJP to defeat itself.
Read our latest cover story by Hartosh Singh Bal.
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Speaking of a raid on a Christian worship service, Ajay Sharma, a leader of the Vishwa Hindu Mahasangh, said, “We created a ruckus. We beat up people and shooed many away, then we called the police officer, who sent three–four vehicles of police force.”
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Modi’s rhetoric about ASEAN countries, as with many of his foreign-policy claims, does not match the test of reality.
Sushant Singh writes.
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#LokSabhaElections2024 | The BJP’s passage of the CAA was, in part, an attempt to appeal to the Matua and Rajbangsi communities, which are classified as SC in #WestBengal .
All you need to know about the battle for West Bengal:
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#LokasabhaElection2024 | While Sahibi was enabling religious revivalism, there was no corresponding movement for social reform—something one would expect in the village of one of the leading claimants of Rammanohar Lohia’s legacy.
Sagar reports.
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“There is no political will to act against them [Arambai Tenggol] even now,” a senior police officer said. “We are looking the other way because we’ve been told to look the other way. We have no choice.” No arrest seems to have been made in the case yet.
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