-Moneycontrol.com Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022: In all, 135 (22 percent) of 623 candidates in the third phase have criminal cases filed against them, according to an analysis of affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms and Uttar Pradesh Election Watch. In Uttar Pradesh, 135 (22 percent) of 623 candidates contesting third phase elections have criminal cases filed against them, according to an analysis of affidavits by the Association for Democratic Reforms...
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Explained: Rise of small parties and their electoral significance in UP polls -Arvind Kumar
-IndiaToday.in Small and marginal parties play a crucial role in political arena of Uttar Pradesh. Here is a look at their rise and impact on UP elections. The BJP had won the 2017 Assembly Election of Uttar Pradesh with the help of alliance of small and marginal parties such as Apna Dal and Suheldev Rajbhar Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP). These alliances had enabled the party to mobilise voters from the most backward...
More »Union budget 2022-23: Big cut in fertilisers subsidy to worry farmers -Bhagirath
-Down to Earth Urea subsidy cut 17%; allocation for NPK subsidy reduced 35% Amid acute shortage of fertilisers in India, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman February 1, 2022, reduced subsidy on urea and nutrient-based (NPK) fertilisers. The move is expected to adversely hit the ailing farm sector. The Rs 63,222.32 crore allocation for urea subsidy in her Budget for 2022-23 was 17 per cent lower than the revised estimates (RE) for 2021-22. Another...
More »Kerala and Tamil Nadu bucked the trend of falling Total Fertility Rate, indicates the latest NFHS data
After the release of the second phase data of the National Family Health Survey Fifth Round (NFHS-5), media commentators and experts have written that the Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for India has gone down just below the replacement-level fertility. The TFR for the entire nation was 2.2 in 2015-16, which decreased to 2.0 in 2019-21. According to the United Nations, the replacement-level fertility is reached when the TFR of a...
More »Official data on determinants of fertility has lessons for the misguided electorate
The virility of Muslim men vis-à-vis men from other religious communities have often been used as a political tool and to create a divisive agenda just before elections for getting votes from the majority of the Indian electorate who are Hindus. Instead of focusing on positive agendas like human development, employment generation, and poverty reduction, political campaigns just before the elections oftentimes reduce to mere communal propaganda (when a lot...
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