The NDA’s vote share stood at around 16%, largely in line with its 15.64% share in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In the 2021 Assembly polls, the NDA’s vote share was 12.41%.
Party was in a tight spot after 2 Kerala nuns were arrested last month for alleged conversion, human trafficking in Chhattisgarh. The nuns were later released after they got bail.
Thrissur MP Gopi secured the BJP’s first-ever Lok Sabha victory in Kerala, but he is not helping the BJP expand its footprint in the state, as expected.
The arrest on charges of forced religious conversion & human trafficking in Chhattisgarh has triggered political uproar in Kerala, where BJP has been courting Christian voters.
In its report, Evangelical Fellowship of India says violent incidents rose from 601 in 2023 to 840 in 2024, including assault, church vandalism & wrongful arrests under anti-conversion law.
'We are sorry to say that a person has to come to the Supreme Court for the burial of his father. The high court, panchayat, etc. are not able to solve the problem,' says top court.
In the letter, 400 Christian leaders & 30 church groups mention cases of violence against their community & call for inclusivity, look to PM to play ‘positive role in nation-building’.
In an affidavit submitted before the Supreme Court, the state govt urged a legislative solution to the decades-old tussle between the Jacobite & Orthodox factions of the Christian sect.
Other Christians have attained the rank before, but Julian James is the first from the Special Service Group, the Pakistan Army's special operations force.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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