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Bypolls for 1 Lok Sabha, 56 assembly seats to be held on 3, 7 November, says EC

PTI -
The bypolls to 54 assembly seats will take place on 3 November, and those for one Lok Sabha seat in Bihar and two assembly seats in Manipur will be held on 7 November.

The curious case of Nitish Kumar — 87% anger, 100% victory

Shivam Vij -
In the supposedly most-politicised state in India, people say they don’t have ‘options’ this election.

Four steps to defeating Modi in 2024. Step one: forget state elections

Shivam Vij -
How Rahul Gandhi — even Rahul Gandhi — can defeat Narendra Modi in 2024.

Not Modi, not Yogi, it is Ram versus the rest for the BJP in UP 2022 election

Ruhi Tewari -
Modi-Shah’s BJP knows the politics of George Bush-esque's binaries is clever and pushes opponents into a corner. That’s exactly what happened with the Ayodhya bhoomi pujan.

The case for postponing Madhya Pradesh and Bihar assembly elections

Shivam Vij -
The Election Commission’s insistence on holding polls in the time of Covid will risk lives and damage democracy.

The BJP should dump Nitish Kumar in Bihar, sooner the better

Shivam Vij -
Nitish Kumar’s poor performance as chief minister is a drag on the BJP’s image in the state.

Yogi Adityanath was given BJP’s third-most important position. And the results are in

Ruhi Tewari -
BJP’s brazen intolerance and majoritarianism only work when combined with welfare schemes. UP CM Adityanath forgot that.

Bengal is the new UP, the most critical state election in Modi’s second term

Shivam Vij -
The defining state election this time — the one with the greatest bearing on the next Lok Sabha elections — is not UP but West Bengal.

Hold off the Indian political ‘turnaround’ story, BJP still has the most MLAs by a distance

Rukmini S -
Even at the height of its dominance during the UPA-I era, the Congress did not have the nationwide strength of MLAs that the BJP now enjoys.

Modi hoped Rajapaksa trip will shift focus from Maharashtra loss. But Pragya Thakur happened

Jyoti Malhotra -
It is more than likely that PM Modi is furious with Pragya Thakur’s repeated reference to Gandhi’s assassin Godse. So why doesn’t he say so publicly?
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Opinion

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

+TFP Ashutosh Varshney -
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

Radhika Yadav’s murder proves the khap panchayat never left—it just moved back into the family

Bihar ADG linking farmers to rising crime uncalled for. Data just doesn’t support such claims

Economy

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Defence

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

National Interest

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Shekhar Gupta -
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.

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