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It’s BJP all the way

IT looks like the home state of Narendra Modi-Amit Shah will stay with the duo in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as the...

(Left to Right) Manohar Lal Khattar, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Om Prakash Chautala
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Treading Cautiously

IN the run up to the Lok Sabha polls 2019, for the main political parties, Congress, BJP and INLD, it is six degrees...

Amarinder Singh at Road show
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A Fighting Chance

AS the 2019 Lok Sabha polls approach, the land of five rivers, Punjab, which brought about the Green Revolution in the 1960s and...

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Through the Lucknow darwaza

Accountability has dislodged sectarianism – that is the message behind the Congress revival in UP During the past two decades, the Congress, which...

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The ‘Rs 25 lakh poll budget’ joke

The Election Commission must frame more realistic rules for poll expenditure • In Punjab, a month before elections, liquor stocks shot up from...

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Promising the moon

Parties vie to catch voters’ fancy by making pledges they will not, and cannot, ever keep Political parties face the need to win...

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Pygmies (de)facing a Herculean task

The world’s largest democratic exercise is marred by a lack of substance As in all spheres, in electing a new government too, the...

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Note power, not vote power

What is taking place in the electoral arena is commerce rather than the democratic exercise of the right to vote Six decades ago,...

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NAVEEN AIN’T NO GREENHORN NO MORE

THREE things distinguish Naveen Patnaik in the highly uncertain and changing political map of India. First, he entered politics as a novice and...