Candidates in Tamil Nadu and Kerala have come up with bizarre and innovative ways to win over voters — be it by selling vegetables, frying fish or making parathas.
Addressing his first election rally in Palakkad Tuesday, Prime Minister Modi also slammed the LDF government over the Sabarimala agitation, and criticised the UDF over corruption.
While pre-poll surveys have given LDF an edge, it is facing two storms apart from the gold smuggling case — deep sea trawling pact & 'love jihad' allegations by Syro-Malabar church.
Ex-CM Chandy says Congress central leadership’s statement welcoming 2018 SC verdict didn’t consider special circumstances, but his govt had backed tradition in 2016.
In an exclusive interview, MoS for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan says BJP will improve its position in Kerala, and will be able to come to power along with ally AIADMK in Tamil Nadu.
The BJP, which has made electoral inroads in Pathanamthitta district where the Sabarimala shrine is located, is now being seen as a ‘protector of Hindus’.
Congress wants criminal case to be registered against a voter who has got himself or herself registered multiple times or with the same photograph under different names.
The coming assembly elections are crucial for the BJP as they will decide the success or failure of the party’s expansion plans in the south, and its push in Bengal.
The BJP needs Hindu unity for electoral benefit, that too in a caste-ridden religious society. That makes it go for reform, reconciliation, and samarasata.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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