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Sharad Pawar, the chief of the Nationalist Congress Party in India, plans to encourage opposition parties to establish unity with a shared minimum programme aimed at providing an alternative to the country's current governing party, led by Narendra Modi. Pawar, who made the announcement after the majority of states where Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party holds power had rejected it, will present this as his view at the upcoming meeting of opposition parties in Patna, Bihar, on 23 June. 16 Jun, 2023, 07:43 PM IST Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) chief Ghulam Nabi Azad on Wednesday said he sees no benefit coming out of "opposition unity" ahead of the 2024 Lak Sabha polls. Asked about a meeting of opposition parties called by Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Azad said he has not been invited to it. 14 Jun, 2023, 06:58 PM IST Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Monday cited alleged corruption in Vyapam and ration distribution and said 225 "scams" had taken place in the 220 months of Bharatiya Janata Party rule in the state. "In the last three years, only 21 government jobs were provided in the state by the BJP government. When this figure was brought to my notice, I got it checked three times from my office and found it is a fact," she further added. 14 Jun, 2023, 04:09 PM IST Jabalpur is at the centre of the state's Mahakoshal region, which has a sizable number of tribal voters. In the 2018 Assembly polls, the Congress won 11 of the 13 Scheduled Tribe reserved seats in t...

Rajnath Singh, (born July 10, 1951, Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, India), Indian politician and government official, who became a major figure in the Singh was raised in a farming family in southeastern Singh entered into active politics two years later, when he became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (Indian People’s Association), then the political wing of the RSS and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM; Indian People’s Youth Movement). In 1986 he became the BJYM’s national general secretary, and in 1988 he was appointed as the organization’s national president. Singh was elected to the upper chamber of the state legislature in 1988. Three years later he became the state’s minister of education, after the BJP had achieved a majority in elections to the assembly. While he was serving in that office, the party undertook a controversial program of rewriting portions of history and Singh’s political career moved back and forth between state and national politics, interspersed with leadership roles within the BJP. He became a member of the In 2000 Singh became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, succeeding veteran leader Ram Prakash Gupta. His tenure in office lasted less than a year and a half, however, as he was forced to step down in early 2002 after the BJP lost control of the government in state assembly elections. He then moved back to the national stage. In 2003 he was appointed minister of agriculture (later agriculture and food processing), remaining there until the ...

On May 10, the Indian state of Karnataka went to the polls, and the result was a surprising and decisive defeat for Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Modi and his movement have faced setbacks before, but the nature of the BJP’s ambitions in Karnataka made this one especially striking. Karnataka was the only BJP-ruled state in South India. It took decades of social engineering and political mobilization to make the BJP a viable party in the state, paving the way for its meteoric rise during the 2000s and 2010s. This time, however, the BJP’s momentum was halted. The nature of its defeat reveals the limits of its overall electoral strategy and sheds light upon the weaknesses of the BJP more generally, as well as the state of India’s opposition with national elections due to be held next year. A Southern Strategy The BJP came to power in Karnataka in 2019 through the mass defection of members of the state parliament, part of its wider strategy of orchestrating defections through The JD(S) is The BJP came to power in Karnataka in 2019 through the mass defection of members of the state parliament. The coalition government seemed set to govern for several years. However, in 2019, fifteen INC and JD(S) members The BJP went on to win twelve of those fifteen seats in December 2019, a few months after Modi’s landslide victory in that year’s national elections, enabling the BJP to take power outright. The BJP made a veteran regional kingpin, B. S. Yediyurappa, chief minist...

JAMMU/SRINAGAR, India, Jan 12 (Reuters) - For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she's in no doubt who will get her ballot. Asha plans to reward Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for scrapping policies in place for decades that denied her and a million more people in the region of Jammu and Kashmir many of the same rights as other Indians. "We have faced the humiliation silently, but Modi-ji has changed our lives forever," she said, leaning on her broom. "It's not just me and my children, future generations from our community in Jammu and Kashmir will vote for the BJP." The Hindu nationalist party is counting on Asha's vote as it pushes to take control of India's part of the Himalayan region that is hotly contested by neighbouring Pakistan and has been governed almost exclusively by Muslim chief ministers. The BJP hopes the addition of up to a million mostly Hindu voters to the electoral roll, new electoral boundaries, seven more seats in the regional assembly and the reservation of nine for groups likely to back the BJP will give it a fighting chance of becoming the biggest party in the 90-seat legislature. Reuters has interviewed three dozen federal and state officials, six groups representing disenfranchised residents, and analysed the latest data to lay out for the first time the scale of the BJP's push in Kashmir - and why it may succe...

On Wednesday, June 14 at 19:30 GMT: This school year, students under 16 will no longer be taught about evolution or the periodic table of elements. The changes to textbooks – which include Critics have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of In this episode of The Stream, we’ll look at how the politicisation of textbooks is changing education in India. On this episode of The Stream, we speak with: Srishti Jaswal, Journalist Baswanth Oruganti, Chemistry professor, SRM University Sudhanshu Kaushik, Founder, Young India Foundation

Then, the unkindest cut was delivered. In an interview with an English daily on Monday, BJP state president and former IPS officer K. Annamalai slammed both the DMK and the AIADMK for their “corrupt administrations”. Without naming the late Jayalalithaa, the AIADMK’s tallest icon after MGR, the BJP leader referred to her conviction in a disproportionate assets case. “Many administrations in Tamil Nadu were corrupt. Former chief ministers have been convicted in courts of law. That is why Tamil Nadu has become one of the most corrupt states. I would say it is number one in corruption,” Annamalai was quoted as saying in the interview, a day after Shah had praised him at a rally in Vellore for having “taken the BJP to every nook and corner of Tamil Nadu”. Earlier, Shah had ruffled feathers in the AIADMK by exhorting the people of Tamil Nadu on Sunday to ensure the NDA’s victory in at least 25 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections as an act of “thanksgiving” for installing the sengol, a Chola-style sceptre, in the new Parliament. Shah had invoked Prime Minister Narendra Modi while issuing the appeal. Senior party functionary and former AIADMK minister D. Jayakumar expressed dismay that Annamalai had not shown any concern for the “coalition dharma” and had “crossed all limits” in belittling his party. Annamalai’s approach could force the AIADMK to rethink its alliance with the BJP, Jayakumar said. The search at the minister’s office at the secretariat in Chennai sent s...

New Delhi, India – India’s richest state has sworn in a new chief minister and his deputy, a day after the previous incumbent was forced to resign, ending 10 days of high political drama that experts say was orchestrated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Eknath Shinde of the Shiv Sena party, whose rebellion along with dozens of fellow legislators kicked off the crisis in the western Indian state, was sworn in as chief minister of Maharashtra on Thursday in a ceremony in state capital Mumbai, also India’s financial capital. Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP, which effectively managed the split in Shiv Sena, took oath as Shinde’s deputy. Shinde was rewarded by the BJP for his rebellion despite the right-wing party having more legislators in the state assembly than his rebellious camp. The developments came a day after Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray announced his resignation as chief minister in a Facebook live broadcast on Wednesday night, minutes after India’s Supreme Court asked him to take a floor test on Thursday to prove his majority. Uddhav Thackeray greets supporters after he was sworn in as Maharashtra chief minister on November 28, 2019 in Mumbai [File: Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters] Thackeray had been running a coalition government with centrists Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress parties since 2019 – one of the unlikeliest alliances in Indian politics. Shinde’s government has been asked to p...

On May 10, the Indian state of Karnataka went to the polls, and the result was a surprising and decisive defeat for Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Modi and his movement have faced setbacks before, but the nature of the BJP’s ambitions in Karnataka made this one especially striking. Karnataka was the only BJP-ruled state in South India. It took decades of social engineering and political mobilization to make the BJP a viable party in the state, paving the way for its meteoric rise during the 2000s and 2010s. This time, however, the BJP’s momentum was halted. The nature of its defeat reveals the limits of its overall electoral strategy and sheds light upon the weaknesses of the BJP more generally, as well as the state of India’s opposition with national elections due to be held next year. A Southern Strategy The BJP came to power in Karnataka in 2019 through the mass defection of members of the state parliament, part of its wider strategy of orchestrating defections through The JD(S) is The BJP came to power in Karnataka in 2019 through the mass defection of members of the state parliament. The coalition government seemed set to govern for several years. However, in 2019, fifteen INC and JD(S) members The BJP went on to win twelve of those fifteen seats in December 2019, a few months after Modi’s landslide victory in that year’s national elections, enabling the BJP to take power outright. The BJP made a veteran regional kingpin, B. S. Yediyurappa, chief minist...

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Monday cited alleged corruption in Vyapam and ration distribution and said 225 "scams" had taken place in the 220 months of Bharatiya Janata Party rule in the state. "In the last three years, only 21 government jobs were provided in the state by the BJP government. When this figure was brought to my notice, I got it checked three times from my office and found it is a fact," she further added. 12 Jun, 2023, 03:05 PM IST Jabalpur is at the centre of the state's Mahakoshal region, which has a sizable number of tribal voters. In the 2018 Assembly polls, the Congress won 11 of the 13 Scheduled Tribe reserved seats in the eight-district division, with the remaining two bagged by the Bharatiya Janata Party. 12 Jun, 2023, 08:54 AM IST This is the first time in NCP's history that the party is having a working president for the national unit. Pawar made the announcement in Delhi on Saturday during the NCP foundation celebrations of the party completing 20 years. Party insiders said Ajit was aware of the changes beforehand. 10 Jun, 2023, 10:28 PM IST "The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has coined a word. They (BJP) are saying that it seems we too are going on the path of soft Hindutva. There is no need to panic. We has been very soft and the need now is to become hard," Yadav told his party workers. His remark assumes significance as it came a day after SP general secretary Ramgopal Yadav termed the training camp a crucial step for "destroying the de...

Rajnath Singh, (born July 10, 1951, Chandauli, Uttar Pradesh, India), Indian politician and government official, who became a major figure in the Singh was raised in a farming family in southeastern Singh entered into active politics two years later, when he became a member of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (Indian People’s Association), then the political wing of the RSS and Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM; Indian People’s Youth Movement). In 1986 he became the BJYM’s national general secretary, and in 1988 he was appointed as the organization’s national president. Singh was elected to the upper chamber of the state legislature in 1988. Three years later he became the state’s minister of education, after the BJP had achieved a majority in elections to the assembly. While he was serving in that office, the party undertook a controversial program of rewriting portions of history and Singh’s political career moved back and forth between state and national politics, interspersed with leadership roles within the BJP. He became a member of the In 2000 Singh became the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, succeeding veteran leader Ram Prakash Gupta. His tenure in office lasted less than a year and a half, however, as he was forced to step down in early 2002 after the BJP lost control of the government in state assembly elections. He then moved back to the national stage. In 2003 he was appointed minister of agriculture (later agriculture and food processing), remaining there until the ...