It may be too early to tell, but the signs seem promising for Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.
TMC s landslide victory in the West Bengal assembly elections over the Bharatiya Janata Party, helmed by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, is propelling Mamata to becoming the focal point of opposition parties united effort to halt the BJP in the 2024 general elections.
An array of senior Congress leaders, who had shot off a letter to party President Sonia Gandhi last year seeking organisational changes after its abject defeat in the 2019 parliamentary polls, have been gushing over Mamata s leadership since the Bengal poll results came out on May 2.
Going beyond Tamil Nadu’s ‘freebies’ narrative
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April 04, 2021 23:43 IST
Other important promises that could touch, and likely improve, the lives of millions rarely make headlines
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Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam presents a free bicycle to a student at Palanichettipatti near Theni on December 30, 2020. | Photo Credit: The Hindu
Other important promises that could touch, and likely improve, the lives of millions rarely make headlines
Disparaging references to “freebies” are a popular trope of media coverage of elections in Tamil Nadu. This Assembly election is no different: free data, free tabs, free washing machines were in the news as political parties released their election manifestos. Electoral promises serve as a road map for elected governments and deserve greater scrutiny. I took a quick look at the full manifestos in English of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, the Indian National Congress, the Makkal Nee
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Working Progressives) beat the actual non-establishment
United Progressive Democrats big time.
On April 27, in a semi-fair rerun, the real progressives won every single seat, and the Executive Board position as well.
However, the margins in some of these races were razor thin, so no one should get too giddy over the results. Let’s see how the election worked.
The January Delegate Election
If you have not been following the January ADEM District 51 Delegate election, Here’s the short version. With an odd, hard to find election site in East LA and confusion as to the actual hours of voting, it was clear that one faction of the Party had all the advantages; the Durazo/Carrillo/DeLeon/Gomez faction. Other problems included:
Assam: NDA s vote share to rise, may win 72 seats | Details inside
The National Democratic Alliances (NDA) vote share is likely to increase by 1.9 per cent in the upcoming Assam elections, while it may bag 72 seats out of the overall 126, the IANS-CVoter survey revealed on Saturday.
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The National Democratic Alliances (NDA) vote share is likely to increase by 1.9 per cent in the upcoming Assam elections, while it may bag 72 seats out of the overall 126, the IANS-CVoter survey revealed on Saturday.
On Friday, the Election Commission of India announced the dates for elections to the 126-member Assam Assembly, set to be held over three phases on March 27, April 1 and April 6 with the results to be declared on May 2.