For Hindu nationalists, the size of the Muslim electorate lends extraordinary significance to Bengal. It's one of the biggest prizes for the BJP’s ideological project.
‘Fate is playing a cruel joke on us’: In Cooch Behar’s chitmahals, SIR has shattered the sense of belonging of Bangladeshis who were made Indian citizens in 2015.
Notices issued for verifying documents of such electors in 12 states. On age gaps between children & parents, Justice Bagchi asked if we are in a country 'where there is no child marriage'.
With elections 3 months away, Bengal CM accused Election Commission of targeting voters with electoral roll revision exercise. A meeting collapsed after Mamata accused CEC of bias & humiliation.
Election Commission says in affidavit to Supreme Court that petitioner's claim of mass disenfranchisement of voters through SIR was to 'serve vested political interest'.
Rajya Sabha Leader of Opposition and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge says BJP should 'end this drama of distraction' and engage in debate on issues facing the public.
It is not often noted, but in the North, Bihar is the only state where the BJP has not come to power on its own. The party's desire to turn Bihar into UP should not be ignored.
CM Pinarayi Vijayan said there is concern if this is Centre's backdoor attempt to implement NRC. Attempt to turn citizenship into religion-based concept challenges democracy, said the CM.
Electoral competition now appears dominated by welfare delivery and governance metrics, but ideology has not disappeared in Tamil Nadu. Instead, it has become strategic.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
Theaterisation, which aims to divide the forces into three theatres with specific areas of responsibility, will become the single most far-reaching reform that the Indian military has witnessed since independence.
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.
SIR has been conducted in the past, when non-BJP governments were in power and no democracy scholars were bothered about the global implications blah blah. Now, SIR was successfully completed in several states including in several opposition ruled states and no one complained. Would the author care to point out when the erosion of democracy started in WestBengal – along with the other “dimensions” of democracy as he so eloquently puts it. If he is concerned about the prospects of BJP winning in WestBengal, he should make that in simple terms and not cloak with “global implications” etc
What a baised article by Ashutosh Varshney. He is basically questioning the SIR which even Supreme Court of India has not stopped. What a lie is he spreading. I wonder how Print editorial allowed it to publish. At most it could have been a FB post or Whatsapp gossip.
SIR has been conducted in the past, when non-BJP governments were in power and no democracy scholars were bothered about the global implications blah blah. Now, SIR was successfully completed in several states including in several opposition ruled states and no one complained. Would the author care to point out when the erosion of democracy started in WestBengal – along with the other “dimensions” of democracy as he so eloquently puts it. If he is concerned about the prospects of BJP winning in WestBengal, he should make that in simple terms and not cloak with “global implications” etc
What a baised article by Ashutosh Varshney. He is basically questioning the SIR which even Supreme Court of India has not stopped. What a lie is he spreading. I wonder how Print editorial allowed it to publish. At most it could have been a FB post or Whatsapp gossip.