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TopicHaryana elections 2019

Topic: Haryana elections 2019

Can Ayodhya Ram Mandir work for BJP in states when PM Modi didn’t?

D.K. Singh -
When Modi factor is absent in states, Amit Shah's election machinery also fails. 'Masterstrokes' like installing CMs from non-dominant groups come to a naught.

Rahul Gandhi shouldn’t stand in the way of Congress’ regional leaders like Amarinder Singh

Zainab Sikander -
Gandhi family’s hold over the Congress has acted as a glass ceiling for local leaders. Haryana polls show it's time Congress high command changes.

Suicide abetment, fraud, forgery — cases against Gopal Kanda who BJP’s desperately wooing

Ananya Bhardwaj -
MLA Gopal Goyal Kanda has emerged 'king-maker' after BJP, with 40 seats, fell short of the majority mark in the Haryana assembly.

Did Rahul Gandhi’s near-absence from campaign help Congress in Haryana, Maharashtra?

ThePrint Team -
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressed only six campaign rallies while Sonia and Priyanka Gandhi did not attend any in the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections.

No word from Rahul Gandhi as Congress celebrates Haryana, Maharashtra poll performance

Deeksha Bhardwaj -
Rahul Gandhi is yet to comment on the Congress' performance in the Haryana and Maharashtra assembly elections. He has not posted anything on Twitter also.

Not a good election for turncoats — 60% candidates lose in Maharashtra, Haryana

Chitleen K Sethi -
Haryana voters more unforgiving to turncoats as 9 out of 14 candidates fielded by BJP lost. Maharashtra defectors had a better strike rate.

‘BJP juggernaut’ not inevitable – Pratap B Mehta, Cong shares credit for BJP win—Sanjay Kumar

Kairvy Grewal -
The best of the day’s opinion, chosen and curated by ThePrint’s top editors.

‘Hyper nationalism’ has its limits, says Hindu, ‘Abrogated Arrogance 370’ — Telegraph

Rachel John -
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How Deepender Hooda got it right, Smita Prakash wrong and Barkha Dutt’s political sermon

Taran Deol -
The most politically correct and incorrect tweets of the day from across the political spectrum.

Do Maharashtra and Haryana election results show that the opposition is not dead in India?

ThePrint Team -
The trends in the assembly election results in Haryana and Maharashtra show that the BJP and its allies might not register a sweeping victory.
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Opinion

Maach & mutton for Mission Bengal. What BJP-TMC are cooking in new poll battleground

Stela Dey -
The stereotype of the fish-loving Bengali has now become a contested political site and both the BJP and TMC know it. And the voters do too.

Casteism didn’t disappear in Indian cities. It just learned English

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Economy

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Alex Gabriel Simon Thattil -
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

Defence

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

Keshav Padmanabhan -
UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

National Interest

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

Shekhar Gupta -
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.

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