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Topic2022 UP assembly election

Topic: 2022 UP assembly election

Pitted against RLD-SP in a UP bypoll, why BJP is trying to put Muzaffarnagar ghosts to rest

In runup to bypoll in Khatauli assembly constituency of Muzaffarnagar, BJP has dropped its usual pre-election rhetoric around the 2013 riots and the deaths of Jat men Sachin and Gaurav.

Why the Modi-Shah BJP loses — 3 lessons for those asking if this BJP can be defeated at all

To beat BJP, you either deny it critical mass of Hindu vote or build a regional leader & party strong enough to protect their turf. And there’s a 3rd option too.

Modi props up Yogi, Behenji’s relief, and the one state Congress did end up winning

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

‘New-age Swami Vivekananda, prime mover of BJP’s UP success’ — RSS praises Yogi for poll win

Yogi Adityanath is the first UP Chief Minister in 37 years to get a second consecutive term in office, after completing a five-year tenure. He won over 1 lakh votes in his seat.

‘Saheb knows this’, Prashant Kishor objects as Modi enjoys victory lap in poll-bound Gujarat

Kishor said Modi’s hope that 2022 wins would show the way for 2024 was a ‘false narrative’. Battle for India would be fought and decided in 2024, he said.

BJP turncoats fail to make a mark in UP; 5 including OBC leader SP Maurya lose, 1 trailing

Of a dozen BJP MLAs including three ex-ministers, five, including two ministers, have lost, while one is trailing. Only two MLAs are leading, according to ECI trends at 9 pm.

People buried politics of caste, religion by ensuring BJP’s victory, says Yogi Adityanath

Lucknow: People have buried the politics of caste and religion by ensuring the victory of BJP and its allies in Uttar Pradesh under the...

Jat anger not enough to cause BJP defeat in West UP, but helped RLD, SP gain ground

While the BJP was leading in 35 of 66 seats in West UP, the SP was leading in 31 & RLD in seven. In 2017, BJP had won 51 seats here, SP 15 & BSP 1.

5 Assembly elections, 7 key pointers & 3 winners: Modi, Yogi, Kejriwal

Modi has become a colossus Indian politics hasn’t seen, Kejriwal has established a new politics of his own kind, and Yogi is the leader to watch.

With heft of victory in UP, Yogi Adityanath can now begin to assert himself at BJP high table

The normally assertive Yogi Adityanath can start to have a say in crucial party decisions. The first step towards that can be his induction in the party’s parliamentary board.

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Pakistan can’t bomb or bargain its way out of the TTP-TLP mess

Among the many problems Pakistan is currently dealing with, the TLP and TTP offer two varying dimensions of the same one.

Denied RBI licence to operate, Fadnavis govt scraps Maharashtra’s asset reconstruction firm

Maha ARC was set up to restructure distressed institutions linked to state government, but officials said the company would have been most useful for reconstructing and selling off sick cooperatives.

‘Can’t really win you wars’: What IAF chief said on drones, manned aircraft & Op Sindoor

At defence conclave, Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh says conflict needs all kinds of weapons, not just the long-range ones, as a paracetamol cannot cure all ailments.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.