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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicAssembly Elections

Topic: Assembly Elections

In Karnataka, BJP wins Lok Sabha & Congress, JD(S) state polls but 2019 can be a close fight

The regret is that BJP vs Congress-JD(S) contest aside, Karnataka for all its civic activism hasn't given us alternative politics.

Home ministry wants EC to conduct J&K elections immediately after Lok Sabha polls

In a letter to the Election Commission on 26 February, the home ministry cited higher security personnel requirement for its advice.

Why voters don’t turn up in larger numbers in Lok Sabha elections – all politics is local

Panchayat leaders make decisions that can have a direct and immediate impact on villagers.

These are the four states that will have assembly elections along with Lok Sabha polls

Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim will have simultaneous Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.

BJP out on a no ball, and Modi’s travel expenditure

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

Modi’s dismal show in assembly elections gives Shiv Sena upper hand in alliance

Sena leaders stress on significance of regional parties & alliance. In mouthpiece, Sena writes BJP first lost its friends now, important states. 

After poll defeat, voters should be very worried about what Team Modi will do next

The assembly election results show that Modi’s personal popularity is struggling to pull votes, and puts a big question mark around the outcome of 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray lauds voters for courage to reject ‘those not wanted’

Thackeray says people's courage needs to be recognised in the five-state election results.

Amit Shah is losing his winning touch. BJP needs a new strategy

BJP chief Amit Shah is known as a master election strategist but barring his home state Gujarat, the party under him has failed to beat anti-incumbency in recent polls.

Narendra Modi and BJP have failed to provide a vision for India’s future: Rahul Gandhi

Speaking after Congress' impressive show in MP, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, Rahul Gandhi says will defeat BJP again.

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.