Topic: BJP
Modi, Shah, Mamata or Rahul, no one cares about EC Covid warning & rallies continue as usual
Campaigning in Bengal is carrying on as BJP lined up 3 rallies of PM Modi Monday, while Home Minister Amit Shah addressed 2 and Mamata 4. Rahul Gandhi will begin from 14 April.
Miss India runner-up, former MPs — UP panchayat polls grab eyeballs with bigshot candidates
Candidates for this week’s UP panchayat polls include former MPs Ram Sagar Rawat and Seema Upadhyay, and model Diksha Singh, a runner-up of 2015 Miss India pageant.
The ‘two lines’ lesson Rahul Gandhi can learn from Congress’ Assam campaign
On 2 May, the Congress party’s poll strategy in Assam may or may not pay electoral dividends but it’s a template Rahul Gandhi may like to explore.
BJP pulls Sengar’s wife out of polls after criticism, but villagers say ex-MLA’s a ‘good man’
BJP had nominated rape convict Kuldeep Sengar's wife Sangeeta for the upcoming UP panchayat polls, but withdrew her name after a week.
Why ex-Congress leader ‘Maharaj’ Pradyot Debbarma could now hold key to 2023 Tripura polls
Pradyot Manikya’s TIPRA Motha & its ally INPT won 18 seats in tribal areas’ district council polls, while BJP won 9 and its partner IPFT drew a blank.
British Empire’s sun hasn’t set on Indian officers’ clubs — centre of civil-military tussle
In ‘India’s Power Elite’, Sanjaya Baru writes that BJP’s greater political prominence to military heroes has not always raised their profile within the power elite.
Yediyurappa can’t be without BJP, BJP can’t be without Yediyurappa, says son Vijayendra
B.Y. Vijayendra, the Karnataka BJP vice-president, says Yediyurappa and BJP are synonymous; CM will complete term, deliver what he promised to people.
Another 71 CAPF companies sent to West Bengal amid poll-related violence
Till now, a total of 1,000 companies were earmarked for the conduct of elections in the state that has 294 assembly seats.
‘Making Muslims scapegoat for Mamata’s failure’: Owaisi hits out at Kishor ‘appeasement’ clip
Owaisi was referring to audio clips released by BJP where Prashant Kishor is purportedly heard addressing journalists during an interaction on invite-only chat app Club House.
How Gurugram is divided over ‘unfair & unjust’ no-meat Tuesdays
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.
Why Ambedkar changed on separate electorate. His shift was strategic not voluntary
Ambedkar favoured communal representation but had serious objections to a separate communal electorate being the best way to achieve it.
Deserted roads bring back nightmare of demand slump for Indian fuel companies
It’s an ominous sign for India, where fuel consumption still hasn’t fully recovered from last year’s national lockdown that saw oil demand fall to the lowest since 2007.
Defence
67 MoUs, 22 deals signed, 17 given land — UP defence corridor project racing after 2 years
Response from foreign manufacturers has been lukewarm. But three big names including Tata Technologies have lined up to invest.
Why mosques in rear view mirror, like Kashi’s Gyanvapi, can crash India’s drive into future
Court’s order to ASI to survey Gyanvapi Mosque for remains of old Kashi Vishwanath Temple questions the optimism that Ayodhya wouldn’t be repeated.