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DECODING UP ASSEMBLY POLLS AND THE CURRENT GROUND SITUATION IN STATE

Lately news coverage has been dominated by the upcoming Assembly polls in West Bengal. Along with this, we have seen coverage about national parties (and other parties) and the preparations they are making to gear up for elections in another part of the country: Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh Assembly

INDIAN POLITICS’ PANDORA’S BOX: UTTAR PRADESH ELECTIONS IN 2022

While in the throes of dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic in September last year, political parties in India shifted their focus to the Assembly bypolls being conducted in Uttar Pradesh. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) successfully won six out the seven Assembly seats in the bypolls. This included Bulandshahr, Bangarmau,

HOW DID BJP BECOME A FORCE TO RECKON WITH IN WEST BENGAL?

With the West Bengal Assembly elections dates due to be announced any day now, the political battleground in the state has heated up. Although the election will be a three-way contest between the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Left Front (in alliance with the Indian National

MISSION KOLKATA: DECIPHERING BJP’S WEST BENGAL PLAYBOOK

Union Minister Prahlad Singh Patel of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed last week that the voters of West Bengal were angry and dissatisfied with the Mamata Banerjee government and the saffron party is likely to win 200 out of the 294 seats in the upcoming Assembly elections. “Bengal is

TAMIL NADU’S TRYST WITH CINEMA AND POLITICS

In Tamil Nadu, movies and politics have had a very close association in the past, as two of the state’s former Chief Ministers Dr. M.G. Ramachandran and J. Jayalalithaa (AIADMK) were both actors. Another late Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, started his career writing films and dialogues for movies. During his

IS THE CINEMA-POLITICS CONNECT STILL STRONG IN TAMIL NADU?

As 2020 drew to a close, so did the political ambitions of superstar actor Rajinikanth. However, what is interesting is that this journey ended without having ever started, as Rajinikanth never officially entered the arena of Tamil Nadu politics. After a wait of nearly three decades, on December 3rd 2020,

THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: SUPERSTAR RAJINIKANTH’S TRYST WITH POLITICS

As the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections are getting closer, discussions over the political dynamics within the state have been on the rise. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s influence has been growing steadily throughout the country and the party has been looking to make inroads in the state with Home Minister and

2021: WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?

While the TMC has continued to dominate politics in West Bengal in the past decade, and the Left Front has declined in importance, another party which has become electorally important in the state is the Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP, which is now touted as the top opposition party to

UNCOVERING POLITICS OF WEST BENGAL ELECTIONS FROM 1972 ONWARDS

In the past few weeks, All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee and Bharatiya Janata Party Senior leader Amit Shah have been leading roaring rallies across the state of West Bengal. The upcoming West Bengal state elections expected to be held April 2021 are likely to witness a three-way

MISSION BENGAL: SONAR BANGLA VS BANGLAR GORBO MAMATA

This week, the Indian National Congress has announced that it will be contesting the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections in alliance with the Communist Party of India (CPI(M)). While the details of the alliance (seat sharing ratios) have not yet been announced this is the second assembly election in a

Did You Know?

UNDERSTANDING THE COST OF FREE WATER

In the past few years, various political parties across the country have been using ‘freebies’ ‘ such as free water supply to lure voters, many of whom probably don’t even have access to piped water supply and/or a metered water connection to avail the benefit of such a scheme. While