The last two decades of Lok Sabha elections saw UPA’s rise and fall, Left’s decimation, and BJP’s juggernaut. Now there’s a new law to choose election commissioners.
Now, with the passing of women's reservation bill and resulting increase in their participation in electoral politics, BJP is likely to further scale up its outreach to women voters.
PM says opposition parties 'smiling together' in Karnataka but 'baying for each other’s blood' in various states, while NDA pursued 'positive politics' even when it sat in opposition.
BJP became world’s largest party in 2019, claiming to have 18 crore members—64 per cent more than 2015. Election result data doesn’t reflect those numbers.
The saga of immortal love between Laila-Majnu, Shirin-Farhad, and Romeo and Juliet, which is recited even today, is similar to the pairing of Nitish and BJP.
Congress has gone from winning 82% of seats it contested in 1984 to losing 88% in 2019, with long-term decline in many individual seats. Rise of regional parties among likely factors.
As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.
Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.
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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