'There will soon be a day when tribals are found only in museums,' says an Adivasi youth. As polls near, anxieties over an existential threat to tribal identity rears its head again.
BJP has pulled out its big guns, Modi & Shah, in Jharkhand, while Congress has been slow to start, leaving JMM’s Hemant & Kalpana Soren to carry the campaign on their shoulders.
A domicile policy with 1932 as cut-off year has been a sensitive issue. Party maintains ambiguity to avoid polarisation of tribals & to keep its base of non-tribal voters intact.
Tickets to Champai Soren & his son, Raghubar Das’s daughter-in-law & Arjun Munda’s wife have especially sparked protests within BJP. Former minister Louis Marandi among latest to defect.
From meeting tragedy-hit families to listening Mann Ki Baat with tribals, BJP leader is criss-crossing state. Assam CM's meetings have increased difficulties for JMM, says Geeta Koda.
Six-time MLA was a confidant of JMM patriarch Shibu Soren. Not only is he a foot soldier of Jharkhand statehood movement, veteran leader was JMM's flag bearer for over 30 years.
His close aides say Champai is consulting his supporters on next move. Many of them want him to float a party but a few are prodding him to join an established party, they add.
In countless public meetings, the CM has brought up his 5-month incarceration, presenting himself as taking up the cause of tribals, the poor, and Dalits. Polls due in November-December.
JMM has floated ‘Jharkhand Batega Nahi, Adiwasi Hatega Nahi’ slogan to turn the tables on BJP, which has been harping on changing demographics in tribal-dominated Santhal Pargana.
Win-win negotiations are always about give and take, a deft combination of assertion and acquiescence. A mutually acceptable trade deal would do a lot of good to both countries.
In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.
As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.
Sow discord. Create micro identities. Make people feel different. Victimized. Exploit tgeir fear and sadness to gain power. Take their resources. Make those who have appear evil. Only then can they be looted. And they have somethkng you can loot. And claim you are good teachers. Not evil thiefs. Socialism Marxism and other ism as taught in Indian academia. Its easy to get a liberal arts degree. You just need to spout opinions that are the same as your professors. No facts. No honesty.
Sow discord. Create micro identities. Make people feel different. Victimized. Exploit tgeir fear and sadness to gain power. Take their resources. Make those who have appear evil. Only then can they be looted. And they have somethkng you can loot. And claim you are good teachers. Not evil thiefs. Socialism Marxism and other ism as taught in Indian academia. Its easy to get a liberal arts degree. You just need to spout opinions that are the same as your professors. No facts. No honesty.