-Livemint.com The farmers had announced suspension of their protest in November last year after PM Modi announced repeal of three farm laws The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), group of over 40 farm organisations that spearheaded years-long protest over farm laws against Centre, is likely to meet in Delhi on March 14 to discuss re-starting agitation, The Hindustan Times reported on Sunday. The SKM also contested recently concluded assembly Elections in Punjab but...
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Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 Elections -Rahul Verma
-IndiaToday.in More women voted for the BJP than men in all four states that the party won in the recently concluded Assembly Elections, according to the data. Here's why. The story of women voting in India has added one more puzzle for social scientists to decipher. In the past decade, the research largely focused on the increasing voter registration among women and their higher turnout rate at polling booths. The combined effect...
More »35 charts decoding the 2022 Uttar Pradesh verdict: bipolarisation and BJP consolidation -Gilles Verniers, Srishti Gupta and SV Sai Vikas
-Scroll.in The trajectories of parties’ vote share since 1993 indicate the magnitude of transformation of the state’s politics. The Bharatiya Janata Party has made history by winning a consecutive election in Uttar Pradesh at the end of a five-year term, something that only Sampurnanand, the state’s second chief minister, succeeded to do in 1957. The BJP’s victory is all the more impressive as it also increased its vote share, from 39.7% to 41.3%....
More »Five State polls, their messages and implications -Seema Chishti
-The Hindu Countering the idea of Hindu nationalism will require much more than smart electioneering or tactical plays State Elections should never be confused with sporting nomenclature of ‘semi-final’, but in all significant State Elections, it is imperative that we draw clear lessons. What must leave the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chuffed is that the Elections from disparate States around India have resulted in its bettering its performance — and by a...
More »In U.P., a humbling loss for Akhilesh -Anuj Kumar
-The Hindu The decimation of BSP has hurt the SP chief the most in polls, say observers For somebody who threw the kitchen sink at the Bharatiya Janta Party during the election campaign, it has been a humbling loss for Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh. Observers said everybody knew that nobody could defeat the BJP on the Hindutva pitch but Mr. Yadav got a ‘godsend opportunity’ in the form of...
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