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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicLok Sabha bypoll

Topic: Lok Sabha bypoll

Amritpal factor, AAP test, Congress ‘fig leaf’: 5 reasons Punjab parties are fired up for Jalandhar LS bypoll

The Jalandhar Lok Sabha bypoll has been necessitated by the death of Santokh Singh Chaudhary, a Congress leader who won the seat in 2014 as well as 2019. It takes place Wednesday.

Simranjit Singh Mann is reborn because there’s an uneasy vacuum in Punjab

By electing AAP three months ago, people of Punjab had shown they were fed up with the vicious power circle of BJP-SAD-Congress. They are now teaching AAP the same lesson.

BJP breaches Samajwadi Party bastions Azamgarh and Rampur, Akhilesh Yadav left with three MPs

Infighting and BSP’s tacit help to BJP in both seats lead to loss of face for SP chief and Azam Khan; Modi and Yogi lead their party in applauding the Lok Sabha bypoll wins

Simranjit Mann of SAD-Amritsar is back with big win in Sangrur, blow to AAP & Bhagwant Mann

Loss comes as a huge setback after the party's thumping win in March; law and order was a major poll factor and so was perception of being remote controlled by the AAP Delhi leadership

Kairana loss a reminder that BJP needs to find new narrative in Uttar Pradesh before 2019

Opposition victory punches holes in BJP’s grand Hindutva umbrella plan on which it rode to power in 2014, raises questions on leadership and charisma of Yogi Adityanath.

The Rahul Gandhi Defence League is obsessed with the wrong problem

In denial that Rahul Gandhi has an image problem, his supporters can’t see beyond Hindutva.

Some Muslims in Phulpur will vote for Atiq Ahmed – even if that helps the BJP

The criminal-politician Atiq Ahmed is a Robin Hood-like figure celebrated by Muslims and Dalits, and can cut into the BSP-SP candidate’s votes.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.