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Still awaiting police reform -MP Nathanael

-The Hindu It is time for the judiciary to step in and enforce the diktats it had passed in 2006 Police brutality in recent months has turned quotidian. The thrashing of a Dalit Ahirwar couple by the police in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh on July 14 was very distressing. But for the media coverage, the incident would have gone unnoticed. The District Collector and the Superintendent of Police have been transferred...

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Caste-community configurations and alliances: Tracking BJP’s electoral footprints in Bihar -Saqib Khan

-Vikalp.ind.in In the run-up to the 2020 Bihar Assembly election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been trying to portray itself as an equal partner in its alliance with the Janata Dal (United) (JD) (U) and a key player in the state’s electoral politics. From 11.6 per cent vote share in the 1990 Assembly election, BJP gradually consolidated its position in the state in the 1990s and 2000s and became a...

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Farm Bills A False Experiment In The Name Of Agricultural Freedom -Navyug Gill

-OutlookIndia.com With the farm bills, The BJP is not so much conducting an experiment as it is following a predictable agenda of right-wing accumulation by dislocation and obfuscation. For the last three weeks, thousands of peasants and their supporters have blockaded roads and rails and marched on government buildings in Punjab, Haryana and elsewhere in north India. This is in response to the BJP government's rushed passing of three controversial farm bills...

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Dalit Women Face Brunt of Caste Battles, State Neglect -Sadhika Tiwari and Shrinkhala Pandey

-IndiaSpend.com New Delhi, Lucknow, Hathras: Meera Singh, 35, who belongs to an upper-caste Thakur family, was surprised by all the talk of sexual violence in Boolgarhi, her village in Hathras district of western Uttar Pradesh (UP). The alleged gang-rape of a 19-year-old Dalit woman by four Thakur men was an abberation, she maintained. “Our village has always been safe, this is the first time that something like this has happened,” said Singh,...

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Explained: What constitutes the Mahagathbandhan and what is its social composition?

-The Indian Express The RJD is banking mainly on Yadav (14% of the state population) and Muslim (17%) votes, and hopes the Congress will get it upper caste and Dalit votes. New Delhi, Patna: The Mahagathbandhan or Grand Alliance constitutes primarily the RJD and Congress. The Left parties CPI (M-L), CPI and CPM, which have some support base in Bihar, are the new entrants to the alliance. Having lost partners in the...

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