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Topic: Kairana

RLD-BJP pact creates Muslim-Jat rift in UP’s Kairana, but SP’s Iqra Hasan is wooing all votes

With RLD joining BJP-led NDA, cohesion between Jats and Muslims is eroding in communally sensitive Kairana, where SP’s Iqra Hasan will go against BJP’s Pradeep Chaudhary on 19 April.

Muslims say law and order has improved in western UP. ‘But voting for BJP against our imaan’

Muslims under the Yogi Adityanath govt 'feel secure' when stepping out of the home at night, and acknowledge that incidents of snatching, looting, and molestation have reduced. But voting is a different issue.

Tractor ride, midnight fear: Muzaffarnagar victims recall riots but unmoved by rape verdict

Ten years after the 2013 UP riots, a court convicted two men of gangraping a Muslim woman fleeing with her 3-month-old child. But for many families, life is stuck between ‘before riots’ and ‘after riots’.

Yogi gets Kairana’s vote on law & order, but residents want netas to talk jobs not ‘exodus’

Kairana is a Muslim-dominated constituency, with 80% practising that faith, while remainder consists of Jats, Gurjars, Kashyaps, Dalits, and Sainis. It votes on 10 February.

Modi rally at expressway launch a day before Kairana bypoll not illegal but avoidable: EC official

Election Commission official tells ThePrint the PMO informally checked if Narendra Modi could address a rally in Baghpat, which is 50km from the poll-bound district.

Govt unleashes its caged parrot CBI when under crisis. Sterling scam is no different

Whenever the NDA government faces a crisis, a new development is suddenly reported in investigations involving the BJP’s opponents or its critics.

The two mistakes of Narendra Modi

The 50-word Edit — ThePrint views on the most important issues, instantly.

Star campaigner across India, but Yogi Adityanath fails to deliver on his home turf again

Defeat in the Kairana bypoll is seen as a fresh blow for the BJP after it lost Phulpur and Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seats in UP earlier this year.

A united opposition is fighting its way back into Lok Sabha, one bypoll at a time

Opposition parties have emerged victorious in 11 out of 14 LS and assembly by polls, the results for which were declared yesterday.

The BJP may do a good job of not showing it, but it must be in great panic

The opposition was so confident of winning Kairana that it gave the ticket to a Muslim, despite the possibility of an anti-Muslim Hindu consolidation.

On Camera

K Balachander’s North-South love story changed the Bollywood hero

More than three decades before Hindi film audiences warmed up to Baahubali and Pushpa, Kamal Haasan showed them that that the ‘Madrasi’ man could be the hero in Ek Duuje Ke Liye.

Recovery of energy flows will be ‘gradual rather than immediate’ as Hormuz re-opens post ceasefire

The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz eases supply fears, but controlled shipping, slow output recovery, and high costs may delay oil flow normalisation for months.

Why Siliguri Corridor is strategically important for India & how it is being secured | Cut The Clutter

This special edition of Cut The Clutter, straight from the Siliguri corridor, details the strategic importance of the narrow strip of land in West Bengal, and how it’s a vital link connecting the Northeast to the rest of India.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.