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This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesnt work against the backdrop of Chinas successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem Panicker.

‘If he has not achieved a ‘Congress mukt Bharat’ even now, the question of his creating a ‘DMK mukt Tamil Nadu’ does not arise By N SATHIYA MOORTHY While

Two leaders who recently quit the Congress have been picked for a Rajya Sabha nomination by two rival parties. The opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has alleged that there are three 'Congressmen' from Maharashtra for the 6 seats. Read more.

What the INDIA alliance needs is neither a counter to Modis tall personality and undiminished charisma nor a counter-narrative to his Hindutva agenda, now centred on the Ayodhya temple consecration on January 22, argues N Sathiya Moorthy.

Despite the Right to Information Act (RTI) having completed 17 years in India, sometimes, one comes across complete ignorance with which an RTI application is filed. One, which is filled with absurd rhetoric but has reached the desk of the second appeal hearing, compelled the information commissioner to dismiss it last week.

Coalitions back on centre-stage By Poonam I Kaushish 2014 we bid adieu to messy multi-Party coalitions amidst fractured mandates. But as happenings last week underscore obituaries of alliance politics was hasty. With 27 Opposition Parties coming together as INDIA (Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance) and BJP pushing to expand NDA to 39 after allowing it

With this kind of coinage, the Opposition seems to be readily conceding the point that Modi is taller than all of them put together. So they need something bigger than themselves, collectively or not, to capture the voter imagination when it is about taking on Modi and the BJP in 2024, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.

Kolkata, May 12: National General Secretary, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee who embarked on the two-month TMC mega event Jan Sanjog Yatra on April 25 completed 2000 km in 17 days on Thursday at the TMC Bhawan in Kolkata district of West Bengal.

Uniindia: Pune, Apr 28 (UNI) Sr Congress leader and state Spokesperson Gopal Dada Tiwari accused the Prime Minister led BJP government in Centre that raising the emotional issue of Pulwama and India-Pakistan in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections for the sake of coming back to power.

It is not unlikely that ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP government comes up with more imaginative schemes aimed at constituency-building. The party under Modis leadership has a more modern thinking in such matters unlike its rivals, which are still steeped only in ideology, points out N Sathiya Moorthy.