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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicElectoral promises

Topic: Electoral promises

BJP 2024 manifesto on investment, farm income, panchayati raj—lack of clarity is worrying

Promises tend to become irrelevant if care is not taken to create necessary enabling conditions to make them feasible. This is even truer of electoral promises.

Unemployment is now election issue. Can Congress’ Pehli Naukri Pakki apprenticeship swing it?

Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge's job guarantee promise queers the pitch for the ruling BJP, which must now scramble to make a competitive offer. No matter who wins, this is good politics.

Curbs on poll speeches over ‘freebies’ won’t fix fiscal deficit, AAP tells SC

Restrictions on electoral speech would be unconstitutional & court-appointed expert panel on 'freebies' should focus on govts' budgetary allocations, AAP says in submission to SC.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.