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While In Punjab It’s Congress Vs AAP, Uttar Pradesh Will Be A Fight Between BJP & SP

February 16, 2022

Elections are well underway in the state of Uttar Pradesh having voted in two phases and the process having been completed in Goa and Uttarakhand. Now the focus will shift to Punjab, along with central and eastern Uttar Pradesh. First, let’s take a look at the state of Punjab where...

Modi Shuns Physical Rallies In Uttar Pradesh Despite BJP’s Eagerness To Win Polls

February 9, 2022

Election excitement is at an all-time high with a few days to go before the first round begins in Uttar Pradesh. First off the block is western Uttar Pradesh, and I am told that the BJP had tried to prevail upon the Election Commission to ensure that the polls begin...

VIGNETTES FROM JATLAND

February 2, 2022

Ever since the farmer protests, the Jats have been dominating the national narrative, one way or the other. And the vote in Uttar Pradesh will also be kicked off by the Jat-dominated belt in western UP. The one party that has won the confidence of the agitating farmers is the...

DYNASTIC DNA TURNS SAFFRON

January 26, 2022

Why did R.P.N. Singh quit the Congress and cross over to the BJP? For that matter, why did Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasada, Sushmita Dev, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Ashok Tanwar quit the Congress? If you ask the Congress they will call these leaders opportunistic and point to all that the Grand...

DESPITE COVID, ELECTION FEVER RIDES HIGH

January 19, 2022

Election fever is at an all-time high in the five states that are slated to go to the polls. In the build-up to the assembly elections, it was the farmers’ bill that was high on everyone’s radar, especially when these were rolled back. They were supposed to impact the elections...

THE MAKING OF A LEADER?

January 12, 2022

First of all, one has to be absolutely clear about one thing: the Prime Minister’s security is not a political football and any breach needs to be seriously looked at. The Supreme Court is doing that, taking it out of the ambit of both the state and the central government...

THE SAGA OF 2024 ELECTIONS

January 5, 2022

Given the way the opposition is at loggerheads with each other, it’s difficult to figure out which way the 2024 is headed except for the Modi way. It has been said that the only one who can defeat Narendra Modi is Modi himself and frankly the only factor against this...

NEWSMAKER OF THE YEAR

December 29, 2021

It is that time of the year when we do stock-taking of the year gone by, and for those of us in the media, we pick a Newsmaker of the Year. Unfortunately, the newsmaker is still the coronavirus or more specifically the horrid Delta variant that ravaged so many homes...

IS TRINAMOOL THE NEW CONGRESS?

December 22, 2021

There has been a lot of speculation as to what Mamata Bannerjee and her ace strategist Prashant Kishor are up to, especially when they started poaching leaders from the Congress. At that time, some speculated that the TMC’s main aim was not to defeat the BJP as much as it...

WITH MODI’S ENTRY, BATTLE OF UTTAR PRADESH GETS EVEN MORE HIGH PROFILE

December 15, 2021

It’s going to be Modi vs Akhilesh in Uttar Pradesh by the looks of it. From being a chief ministerial state-level battle, the entry of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has upped the stakes for the UP polls. But then for any state election during the Modi era, the Prime Minister...

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