The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not invincible. In the 57 state elections it has contested since May 2014, it has lost 29 (including the 2023 Karnataka polls). That isn’t a sign of invincibility. Nor is the fact that in the 28 where it did form the government after the elections, it had a majority […]
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09
May
May
The assembly elections in Karnataka are crucial not only because it is the biggest state or the first south Indian one to go to polls this year. It is important because both national challengers, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, are trying out long-term strategies that may have ramifications beyond the state. PREMIUM […]
05
May
May
The decision of the Patna high court (HC) to immediately suspend a controversial caste-based survey in Bihar could not have come at a more politically inopportune moment for the ruling coalition, comprising the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Janata Dal (United) and the Congress. A plan to use the headcount of castes — which has never […]
02
May
May
The election manifestos of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Karnataka also hold kernels of their possible strategies for the 2024 general elections, on two fronts. PREMIUM Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar and senior party leader Siddaramaiah releases the party’s manifesto for the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, […]
01
May
May
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s election manifesto for Karnataka is a marriage of contrasts. Released on Monday, the document makes a raft of promises tied to social welfare benefits – three free gas cylinders in the months of Ugadi, Ganesh festival and Diwali to families below the poverty line (BPL), affordable food centres, half a […]
26
Apr
Apr
A month after the government in Karnataka sought to send a political signal by scrapping a separate quota for Muslims, the administration has taken a temporary U-turn, telling the Supreme Court that it will hold off on implementing the changes till the next date of hearing, May 9. This effectively also means that the contentious […]
16
Apr
Apr
Bihar’s survey of all castes and their socioeconomic condition began this weekend. The contentious exercise — attempting to enumerate the numerical strength and socioeconomic conditions of all castes for the first time since Independence — is happening against the backdrop of a political churn. Bihar’s ruling coalition comprises (along with the junior most partner, the […]
12
Apr
Apr
The ongoing drama over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) candidate list for the forthcoming assembly election in Karnataka should not surprise anyone. Disappointment, dissent, and defection by aspirants who don’t find their names on the list isn’t unique to the state, although it does take it to a different level altogether, and doesn’t fit the […]
12
Apr
Apr
For the first time in five years, the Election Commission of India (ECI) revised its list of state-level and national-level parties this week, granting national party status to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and downgrading the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Communist Party of India (CPI). India now has six […]
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