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Topic2019 election results

Topic: 2019 election results

Tejashwi Yadav, forever middle-order batsman, is forced to open for RJD in Lalu’s absence

Dilip Mandal -
With RJD facing an existential crisis, 29-year-old Tejashwi Yadav battles BJP, uncle Nitish Kumar and his own family members.

Nayantara Sahgal says ‘storytelling’ has overrun reality, S.Y. Quraishi on simultaneous elections

Aastha Singh -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Should Rahul Gandhi get rid of Leftist aides or is it still not enough to revive Congress?

ThePrint Team -
Congress party media head, Rachit Seth, blamed Rahul Gandhi's "Left-leaning lieutenants" for costing the party the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Not just Modi’s personality, this key factor was behind BJP’s massive win in 2019 elections

Pradeep Chhibber -
Perceptions around BJP’s performance were hardly enough to put it on driving seat. And yet it got 50% votes in more than 200 constituencies.

Harsh criticism of Rahul Gandhi unjustified because Congress slide began in 1996

Aneesh Nathani -
What happened in 2019 was a natural progression of Congress’ decreasing inability to translate assembly success into Lok Sabha victories.

Why does the Right-wing want to ‘occupy’ Delhi’s liberal hotspot Khan Market?

ThePrint Team -
BJP's Ram Madhav took party workers to Khan Market to celebrate the Lok Sabha victory to assert the "new political ideology and culture".

Pratap Bhanu Mehta says this election result boils down to two words “Narendra Modi”

Aastha Singh -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

Does Congress have a future in India after 2019 Lok Sabha election results?

ThePrint Team -
The Congress party faced a crushing defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections at the hands of Narendra Modi-led BJP.

Narendra Modi’s 2019 victory is Hindutva 2.0 — and Dalits & OBCs form its backbone

Guru Prakash Paswan -
The “threat to Constitution” brigade, which created a fake fear around quota, will hopefully take some lessons from this outcome.

On TV, Arnab Goswami, Rajdeep Sardesai & Navika Kumar looked like they had won 2019 polls

Shailaja Bajpai -
Arnab Goswami on Republic TV, in his delirious moment of triumph, mistook Sunny Deol for Sunny Leone.
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Opinion

The influencer war that took rural creator Pujarini Pradhan global

Stela Dey -
As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.

No amount of welfarism and futurist illusion can remove poverty of Indian people: BS Sanyal

Maach & mutton for Mission Bengal. What BJP-TMC are cooking in new poll battleground

Economy

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Alex Gabriel Simon Thattil -
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

Defence

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

Keshav Padmanabhan -
UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

National Interest

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

Shekhar Gupta -
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.

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