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Topic2019 elections

Topic: 2019 elections

At his first meeting at his new office, Modi reiterates ‘one nation, one election’

The PM asked the CMs and deputy CMs of all BJP-ruled states to ‘start preparing’ for Lok Sabha and all state assembly polls to be held simultaneously.

What the BJP may have to do to ensure Narendra Modi remains PM after 2019 polls

The big factor the BJP should bank on in the upcoming 2019 elections leads with the question: “Who is the alternative? If not Modi, who? If not BJP, who?”

With stage set for 2019, Prashant Kishor is back in the game

The political strategist calls reports of his collaboration with BJP highly ‘speculative’, is likely to expand footprints, hire more people ahead of 2019.

Speculation about Modi losing in 2019 are driven by an old arithmetic

What many commentators seem to have overlooked the fact that constructing national majorities is no longer just an arithmetical formula consisting of seat-by-seat verdicts.

Modi thinks simultaneous polls will give him a second term, make him invincible

While so much noise is being made, the government is yet to attempt the important challenge of finding a political consensus.

Modi returning as PM in 2019 isn’t certain. India should be prepared for these scenarios

It's not a foregone conclusion who the next Prime Minister will be given there are plenty of voters who could ensure it isn't Narendra Modi.

BJP will mollify NDA allies closer to 2019, when it risks getting a reduced majority

Nineteen states have NDA governments, but the partners have lost their bargaining power because the survival of Modi government does not depend on them.

No big bang changes in Congress under Rahul Gandhi anytime soon

The new party president was expected to bring in his own leadership team, but he’s maintaining status quo at the top and concentrating on the states.

2019 strategy: BJP to deploy trained spokespersons in states to counter negative publicity

BJP has six wings and each wing will select two spokespersons from each state who will eventually tackle questions and charges levelled against party.

Rahul Gandhi finally discovers big data, sets up data analytics wing in Congress

Experienced data analyst Praveen Chakravarty to head the department; Congress is the only party to have a data analytics wing.

On Camera

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.