How powerful does one have to be and feel to spend years raping, sexually harassing, tormenting and blackmailing scores of women?
Read my piece from Hassan about how the videos have spread fear in the district.

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Tabassum ‘Modi promised us money in our accounts. What did we get? Rs 15 lakh in debt’

Ayush Tiwari spoke to a farmer in Firozabad, UP, who is rethinking his support to BJP

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#Election2024 | “Yogiji is sitting in Lucknow and he has no idea what is happening in his state. He is a sanyasi who wants to clean up the system. But his ministers and officials are bent on ruining it” says a UP farmers about the black marketing and corruption in #agricultutre …

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We hear a lot about law and order improving in UP under BJP. But there are limits to this as I found out in rural Firozabad, which votes on May 7. Scroll.in

A traditional BJP voter is rethinking his vote. The reason? Read:

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Amtab Ali's home is just 2 km from Barpeta town but he will vote in Dhubri LS. Dhubri is over 200km from his village.

The demographic profile of Barpeta LS has been radically altered. For the first time, no major party had fielded a Muslim candidate.

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Really happy to share that this story for queerbeat & BehanBox received a special mention in the social impact journalism category of ACJ awards.

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#Election2024 | “The improvement of law and order is an exaggeration. Is black marketing not a law and order problem?” asked a chilli farmer from Uttar Pradesh.

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#Election2024 | 'Me, my family and this village voted for Modi in 2014 and 2019. But this time, I’m yet to make up my mind.

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Ayush Tiwari reports the concerns of a chilli farmers whose income has fallen and his debt has risen in the past decade

‘Modi promised us money in accounts. We got Rs 15 lakh in debt’

A Scroll series asks: What is on the mind of voters struggling with joblessness and income insecurity?

This chilli farmer in UP, once loyal to BJP, is rethinking his vote

Ayush Tiwari

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We hear a lot about law and order improving in UP under BJP. But there are limits to this as I found out in rural Firozabad, which votes on May 7. Scroll.in

A traditional BJP voter is rethinking his vote. The reason? Read:

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Gandhinagar is a BJP citadel. The party has won the Lok Sabha seat since 1989. In 2019, Shah's victory margin was more than 5.5 lakh votes.

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Shah is contesting from the state capital this time too.

Ayush Tiwari reports

BJP and Congress Manifestos

🧶BJP mentions Modi 67 times, Jobs 2 times and Social Justice 0 times in 76 pages

🖌️Congress mentions Jobs 36 times, Equality 3 times, Muslims 0 times in 48 pages
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In the ongoing elections, the party reportedly has a target of sweeping Gujarat's 26 seats with a margin of more than 5 lakh votes.

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Shah is contesting from the state capital this time too.

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tweeting to the Election Commission isn’t gonna make em do anything & shaming a certain party seems to always give em more ammo ; only organised protests & possibly the kind of anger that led to something back when waters were really tested by the powers that be, in dec 2019

And then let's rename ECI to 'the tortured poets department'.