-The Indian Express According to the victim's family, those accused of setting her on fire are relatives and acquaintances of the accused, who is in prison for allegedly raping the minor. A 15-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly set on fire in Bulandshahr on Tuesday morning and died at Delhi’s RML Hospital later in the day, the police said. According to police, the girl was earlier allegedly raped by a local resident and the...
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Bihar alliance without a single elected Muslim -Nalin Verma
-The Telegraph The state's largest minority community has held key ministerial and other constitutional posts whether under the rule of Congress, Samyukta Socialist Party, Janata Party, Janata Dal or the RJD Patna: Bihar has for the first time since Independence got a ruling coalition without a single MLA from its largest minority community. None of the four parties in the National Democratic Alliance — the BJP, Janata Dal United, Hindustani Awam Morcha Secular...
More »Employment, finally an election issue -Santosh Mehrotra and JK Parida
-The Hindu Several myths persist about job creation, which can misguide policymaking Jobs are rarely far from the minds of citizenry. Politicians woke up to this fact in the run-up to the Bihar Assembly elections. It is for the first time that unemployment has become a big issue in an election. This is not surprising. Rising unemployment The economy had been slowing for nine quarters prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. Before the 2019 Lok...
More »Lesson from Bihar: Suffering Does Not Make People Shift Party Loyalties -Ajaz Ashraf
-Newsclick.in The results show how strong the pull of caste identity is. Nothing else explains why JD-U’s vote share did not shrink disastrously. The Bihar Assembly elections turned out to be a breathlessly close race, with the National Democratic Alliance pipping the Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance to the post. Yet the award for man of the match must go to Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, who took on the combined might...
More »Shaibal Gupta, social scientist at Asian Development Research Institute, spoke to Down to Earth on Bihar polls
-Down to Earth Shaibal Gupta, social scientist at Asian Development Research Institute, spoke to DTE on Bihar polls and its national importance It is D-day after the first election in India amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The process of counting the votes cast in the Bihar Assembly elections started November 10, 2020 morning. But an increased number of electronic voting machines have slowed the process down and only about a...
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