With RJD’s popularity nosediving and Nitish’s JDU not in the pink of its health, the non-BJP vote bank will be looking for an alternative political platform.
One of the fallouts will be the impact in narrative building for the ruling BJP as the loss happens to be in its bastion right after the massive student protest in New Delhi.
With an estimated 1.6 lakh of its 3.79 lakh voters being upper-caste Hindus, Bankipur has been a BJP stronghold for three decades. Prashant Kishor has breached that fortress decisively.
Jan Suraaj has fielded founder Prashant Kishor for the Bankipur bypoll, setting up a direct battle with the BJP in a constituency vacated by national president Nitin Nabin's Rajya Sabha move.
Bankipur seat fell vacant after BJP national president Nitin Nabin resigned as MLA following his election to Rajya Sabha in April. The byelection will be held on 30 July.
The JSP founder, who visited Bharat Bhushan Tiwari's family Wednesday, asked whether role of Bihar home minister, STF officer who gave the order to shoot & Home dept will be probed.
The BRICS summit offers India a moment in the geopolitical limelight. For New Delhi, the main challenge will be to bring its two bilateral partners — Iran and the UAE — together.
India drew a record $127 billion from its vast diaspora, surpassing even the most optimistic estimates and giving policymakers a bigger war chest to defend the currency.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is, BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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