Intellectuals Sell Illusions – Party Wins, People Lose
This is an English translation of the article by the renowned writer in Telugu, published after the results came out of the recent General Election to the Loksabha. Intellectuals are…
India Election 2024
Election Commission Should Clarify ADR’s Findings On Disparities In Votes Polled And Counted
Association for Democratic Reforms' (ADR) latest report and their letter addressed to the Election Commission on serious inconsistencies between constituency-wise numbers of votes polled and those counted- Election Commission should…
How BJP lost UP 2024: Refusal of Hindutva and Return to Social Justice
Abstract 2024 Lok Sabha election result surprised BJP led NDA alliance. BJP led NDA managed to secure 294 seats in which BJP got 240 seats in 2014. In 2019 BJP…
India’s Electoral Pilgrimage
Every five years, Indians go on a pilgrimage - visiting polling booths to pay respect to their respective political gods, pour their homage in the shape of votes into ballot-boxes,…
BJP lost its base among OBCs in the general elections, observes Prof N Sukumar
Professor N. Sukumar teaches Political Science at Delhi University. Prof N Sukumar teaches Political Science at Delhi University, his area of interests are Ambedkar and Anti-Caste studies, Indian Politis and Indian…
Voters’ Lakshman Rekha & 2024 Results!
Electoral results may also be viewed as reflective of major political signals displayed by voters as well as the lens used by them to judge politicians in the race. This…
Faizabad & Indian Secularism!
If Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had not the lost the parliamentary seat of Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh (UP), where the Ram Mandir is situated, would the Indian elites, intellectuals, critics…
The meaning of the 2024 Indian elections
As the trends of the recent Indian elections became clear, the Chinese rover that recently landed on the far side of the moon picked up a strange sound from Planet…
Faizabad-Ayodhya Lok Sabha Elections – In the eyes of All India Peoples Front
BJP losing Lok Sabha elections in Faizabad-Ayodhya is not the first incident By doing Pran Pratishtha of Shri Ram in Ayodhya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been trying to create…
The 2024 India Election: A Triumph of Democracy, not Secularism
Mr. Narendra Modi has been sworn in on June 9, 2024, as the prime minister of India for a third consecutive term. The 73-year-old is only the second prime minister,…
Making Our Democracy Work for Us
Ever since the results of the elections came out in India, many of my friends and I have celebrated in a subdued way. Nobody stuffed laddus in anybody's mouth, we…
The Profane Politics of Indian Elections
In the 2024 national elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has failed to win the majority mark of 272 seats, falling more than 30 seats short. Prime Minister Narendra Modi…
Modi-Oriented Communication Strategy & BJP’s “Defeat!”
When communication strategies are given importance only from one angle without substantial consideration to recipients’ possible approach towards the same, chances of their succeeding beyond a point may be viewed…
The whole Loksabha election process was highly dubious, with EC’s credibility undermined, and it taints the results
“Election Commission (EC) is behaving like BJP’s puppet,” complained many including the Congress. “EC has emerged as a significant loser in this election,” said a senior fellow of CPR, referring…
Indian Election 2024: To be “free” or not to be “not free”
The US and the West might have desperately wished for a regime change in India to keep intact their global democracy versus autocracy campaign. After Joe Biden came to the…
Robertsganj Lok Sabha Elections – An Experience
The Agenda Lok Sabha campaign run by the All India Peoples Front (AIPF) helped defeat the BJP alliance in the Robertsganj Lok Sabha and Duddhi Assembly by-elections Robertsganj Lok Sabha…
Rural Distress in India and Recent Elections
Rural India, especially in the north coasted the ruling party its majority in parliament, thus forcing ruling Bharatiya Janata Party to depend on regional allies to muster the simple majority…
‘Untouchable hooligans’ make merry with Indian polls
“The untouchable hooligans,” as Mahatma Gandhi called India’s Dalits when the then British Prime Minister, Ramsay McDonald, proposed the communal award in 1932, made common cause with “Muslim hooligans” to…
Beyond Numbers: Charting the Journey of Women in Lok Sabha
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, India elected 74 women Members of Parliament (MPs). This is four fewer than in 2019 but significantly more than the mere 22 elected in…
Political Immaturity and Clientelism in Indian Democracy: Reflections from 18th Lok Sabha Election 2024
Background India is the world's largest democracy with a vibrant electoral process, yet it continues to be marred by deep-rooted problems such as political immaturity and clientelism and the 18th…
Election 24 And Peoples Aspirations
There is a famous Eminem quote” Opportunity comes once in a life time” which may not always be true . However one cannot ignore it. The election of Lok sabha…
Congress and BSP Responsible for the return of Narendra Modi
by Divesh Ranjan and Sandeep Pandey There are celebrations in the opposition circles that Bhartiya Janata Party has not been able to reach the half way mark to form the…
General Elections 2024 Results Thoroughly Expose the Casteist Indian Media
The results of the General Elections 2024 have thoroughly exposed the Bania media and its Brahmanical proponents. I have never trusted it but it took 10 years of Modi rule…
‘We the People of India’ Reject Modi
With arrogance Mr. Modi had declared that his party would cross 400 out of 543 seats in the election to the Lok Sabha or the Lower House of India. In…
Modi’s Comeuppance: The Waning of Hindutva
Lock them up. The whole bally lot. The pollsters, the pundits, the parasitic hacks clinging to the life raft of politics in the hope of earning their crust. Yet again,…
Nitish and Naidu: Kingmakers or Scapegoats?
Though many people are quipping that the new government is unlikely to last long,there is no doubt that it will be in the interest of the three major parties involved…
India: A New Beginning
Today was a typical morning of a hot summer in Houston. I woke up looking at the rays of the sun peeking through the window shades of my bedroom. As…
Lok Sabha Election Results: Some immediate, some far-reaching messages
After the first phase of the 18th Lok Sabha elections, which were conducted in seven phases, it was already indicated that a large part of the country's population had decided…
India’s Elections 2024: A slight sigh of Relief; Will it last?
After the announcement of the election results, I heard nothing but a sigh of Relief all around, especially from members of the Diaspora. It is almost as if they have…
Electoral upheaval in Kashmir
Just as the ruling political party of India, Bhartiya Janata Party's 'Ab Ki Baar Char Su Par' slogan has poorly been rejected by the Indian voters in the Parliamentary elections, …
2024: Re-enter politics of social justice
The results of the recently concluded Lok Sabha Elections 2024 have reestablished political equilibrium in India. With more voices of resistance in the Lok Sabha, the full-throttle engine of BJP’s…
The Millennial and GenZ Dalit-Ambedkarite voters
Every politician and political party in the 2024 General Election were compelled to take the name of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar along with his photo at prominent visual points. While the…
People asserted, “We are the Boss!”
The myth that you can continue ruling the country by dividing people on religious ground, intimidating and jailing the opposition leaders, capturing all the public institution and centralizing power, forcing…
Modi Government 3.0: Adopting a More Accommodative Tone
The 2024 general elections have ushered in a new chapter for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Narendra Modi's leadership. Despite expectations of a significant majority, the BJP-led National Democratic…
The days of the later Mughals have come again in India
One sees some striking resemblances of today’s political scenario with the days of the later Mughals. The last strong Mughal Emperor was Aurangzeb who died in 1707. The Mughal Emperors…
Lok Sabha Election Verdict 2024: What it means?
The two consecutive terms of the NDA from 2014 to 2024 marked a significant deviation in India’s political history. Earlier phases celebrated core Indian values such as respecting diversity and…
Lok Sabha Election 2024: How the verdict unfolded a path to fight against Crony Capitalism
The 2024 Lok Sabha election was notably distinct, characterized by a heightened focus on the interests and concerns of the common people. Beyond merely exercising their voting rights, ordinary Indians…
Jeremy Corbyn Congratulates Indian social activists on the Election Results
Jeremy Corbyn MP, British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020 congratulated social activists in India on the election…
The nightmare for Indian Muslims is over
“ Yeh do din ka kya maajra ho gayaKi jangal ka jangal hara ho gaya “ The most important outcome of the results of the recent parliamentary elections in India…
What A Relief!
Several people phoned this morning to say that after a long time they had sound,undisturbed sleep.I had to reply that I too had the same feeling of deep relief.As though…
What happened to “Modi-wave?”
Notwithstanding the hype raised about the so-called “Modi-wave,” Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has failed to win the needed number of seats to form the government on its own strength. At…
Elections and Democratic Consciousness
In electoral democracies, periodic elections conducted according to constitutional provisions serve as essential tools for deepening of democratic consciousness and ensure people’s governance. These elections aim to humanise power and…
India Elections: Huge Setback for Narendra Modi and BJP
After ruling for 10 years India's right-wing Hindu Nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to make a decisive majority in India's 543 member parliament. As per the latest trends BJP…
Open letter to President of India: Why did Election Commission condone star campaigners for hate speeches?
Chief Election Commissioner's reported statement that the Commission condoned certain "special" star campaigners from penal action against hate speeches raises serious concerns- Appeal to Rashtrapatiji for intervention To Smt. Droupadi Murmu…
Re-interpreting Winning and Losing: The Elections
Beyond all the games of numbers and predictions in the context of the electoral season (that continued rather long into peak summer), is the question of who won and who…
“BJP Said Do Not Vote, All Votes Must Go to Amit Shah”–Allege Many Gandhinagar Voters from Dalit, OBC, Muslim and Darbar Communities
ANHAD Citizens’ Team Asks ECI to Urgently Investigate Voter Intimidation and Suppression in Home Minister’s Constituency New Delhi, 3 June 2024: In a letter sent on 2 June 2024 to…
How Poll Predictions Compromise the process of free and fair elections
While exit poll results have been welcomed by the supporters of the ruling BJP and its allies, those who are looking for a change of government have dismissed them. The opposition camp has…
What If?
A friend with a cynical turn of mind and always sceptical of any purposeful action called the other day to discuss coming poll results.When I took up paper and pen…
Let the Election Commission explain why elections are held in so many phases and in deadly heat
Till yesterday, 28 election workers have died in Uttar Pradesh, which includes a large number of low-paid Home Guards. Expressing deep grief over this, National President of All India Peoples…
Fear and Hope post the Fourth of June
For weeks now, everyone and his uncle in India has been speculating about the outcome of the country’s general elections, hunting for clues on media outlets, studying past trends and…
Weak but sensible voices should be listened to in the path of democracy
I have been living in Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, for the past one month. In my general conversations with many people living in Shimla from different parts of…
Worst Case Scenarios
Conscious citizens are plagued by their vision of the immediate future as it looms through latest credible predictions of poll results.It Is either NDA regaining power with a slim majority …
The tryst of Indian democracy: Will the established trends of electoral verdicts prevail or a new phenomenon emerges on June 4th, 2024 in the general election results
Jawaharlal Nehru's speech on the occasion of India's independence, delivered on August 14, 1947, is famously known as the "Tryst with Destiny" speech. It begins with the iconic lines: "Long…
BJP Rule Must Go
The 12th of January, 2018, is an unforgettable day in the history of Indian Judiciary. It was on this day that four Justices of the Supreme Court - Chellameswar, Kurian Joseph, Ranjan…
Chocolates are bad, fruits are good
I returned home on the 20th of May afternoon, after exercising my right to vote. My left index finger had an indelible ink mark to tell the world I voted.…
Modi Challenged By Silent Strategy of Indian Voters?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a master-strategist in the art of electoral maneuvering to stay ahead in political drama seems at a loss about which strategies will spell his electoral success…
#WeThePeopleMatter: The centrality of ‘We the People’ today
Ongoing elections 2024 Between 19 April and 01 June, around 1-billion Indian people are voting to constitute India’s 18th Parliament. During the election campaigning, in his quest for 370/400 seats,…
India’s “Schrodinger Moment” On the Fourth of June
Schrodinger’s thought experiment Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933. In 1935, he posited a thought experiment – later coming to be known as “Schrodinger’s…
Not All Children are Equal to the Mother of Democracy!
I had a dream on the night before the parliamentary election in Gujarat, May 6, 2024. In the dream, I saw a Dalit woman being warmly welcomed into an affluent…
Modi on the backfoot spewing out hatred and anti-minority venom
As India has completed its fourth phase of the national elections, it has become increasingly clear that it is in no way a walkover by the BJP towards a third…
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