A Dalit vote for BJP is viewed as a step back from Ambedkarite goals. New book Maya Modi Azad: Dalit Politics in the Time of Hindutva explains BSP’s decline.
Modi government posing as a benevolent giver is an image that any poor will cherish because their everyday interactions with State machinery isn’t so pleasant.
The party’s performance in UP, where it has a strong foothold in western and eastern parts, is a long way off from its performance in the 2017 assembly elections.
Vaishali Yadav, a medical student in Ukraine, made a video to appeal for evacuation from war-torn country. Now, the UP gram pradhan could be facing action for being 'absent from duty'.
BJP is pulling out all stops to ensure Varanasi South doesn’t become a spoiler in PM’s LS constituency. NDA had won all 8 segments here in 2017. But MLA issue is a larger problem.
BJP's digital war room in Varanasi comprises 100-odd volunteers housed in a three-storey building at Gulab Bagh area. It connects party workers, officebearers and volunteers.
Home Minister Amit Shah refutes allegations about disconnect between UP govt and BJP organisation, says it is 'not a difference of opinion, but an illusion'.
Azad Samaj Party chief said he was ready for head-to-head constituency fight with CM Adityanath & discussed how talks with SP fell through — but didn’t rule out alliance with Congress.
While BJP central leadership draws up strategy to counter series of OBC MLAs’ resignations, OBC Morcha has been tasked with localised measures to tackle the issue.
In UP, which goes to polls from 10 February, BJP leaders are requesting to field family members and relatives, but the party is likely to follow the one ticket-one family diktat.
Administrative efficiency and targeted schemes can ease frictions, but they cannot offset the competitiveness loss from expensive imported intermediates.
Armenia has procured significant defence equipment from India, including artillery guns, multi-barrel rocket launchers, air defence system, sniper rifles, weapons locating radars, anti-drone weapons.
The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.
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