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‘Gujarat was the laboratory for today’s India,’ says Prof. Christophe Jaffrelot

When Christophe Jaffrelot, French political scientist and Indologist, submitted the manuscript of his new book, Gujarat Under Modi, in 2013, he was asked to delete so many passages he decided not to go ahead with it. He had done intense ground research, and held on to the book, replete with insights into the rise of Narendra Modi from Gujarat to New Delhi, till it could reach readers in 2024. “Gujarat was the blueprint for post-2014 India,” he says in an interview with The Hindu. Edited excerpts: Survivors look at the photographs of Godhra riots victims, in Ahmedabad. | Photo Credit: Reuters You call ‘Gujarat Under Modi’ a “political biography of an Indian state through the personality and actions of its most resilient ruler.” Is resilience the word to describe Modi today?I used this wo...
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‘One shouldn’t do politics in such incidents’: BJP’s Sudhanshu Trivedi criticises politics over Hathras stampede | India News – Times of India

VARANASI: BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi criticised the politics surrounding the Hathras stampede incident on Saturday, stating that such incidents should not be politicised, adding that the issue should be talked about with sensitivity and maturity."I believe that the heart-wrenching incident of Hathras should be talked about with sensitivity, seriousness and maturity.The Uttar Pradesh government is working with full vigilance, accused have been arrested and strict action will be taken against those who are guilty."Questioning Rahul Gandhi over the Tamil Nadu spurious liquor case that killed 65 people, Trivedi asked that did he visit the people affected?"I want to ask Rahul Gandhi, Your INDI alliance government is there in Tamil Nadu, more than 50 people died there after consuming poison...
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‘Simply not for me’: After consecutive defeats, Bhaichung Bhutia quits politics | India News – Times of India

GANGTOK: Indian football icon Bhaichung Bhutia on Tuesday announced that he was quitting politics, following his defeat in the recently held assembly elections in Sikkim. Bhaichung, the vice president of the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF), lost to SKM's Rikshal Dorjee Bhutia in the Barfung seat, which marked his sixth electoral defeat.He joined politics in 2014 when the ruling TMC in West Bengal named him as its candidate for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha seat.In 2018, he took the plunge into the political arena of his state by forming the Hamro Sikkim Party. Last year, he merged his party with the Pawan Chamling-led SDF."Firstly, I would like to congratulate Mr PS Tamang and the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha (SKM) for winning the assembly elections. The people of Sikkim have given them a resoundi...
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Young women must know the wider issues impacting their day-to-day lives: Brinda Karat

Brinda Karat | Photo Credit: Getty Images Brinda Karat’s Hindutva and Violence Against Women came at peak polling time, when every day brought with it an unsettling feeling that members of the ruling party would say something so nasty, we wouldn’t be able to heal from the wounds. The “mangalsutra bhi bachne nahin denge (‘they’ will not let even your mangalsutra go)” comment by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was blame twisted so out of shape, it pegged imagined future crimes on a Muslim minority whose women had in fact suffered at the hands of Hindutva, as the book proves.In fact, a small part of the 90-page monograph talks about “the demonisation of Muslim men” being an “important aspect of the Hindutva project”, as she explains in this interview. Love jihad, for instance, “targets the M...
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‘Manipur Is Burning’: RSS Chief Urges Prioritising State’s Crisis Over ‘Election Rhetoric’

 RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat on Monday expressed deep concern over the continuing violence in Manipur, urging immediate and prioritised action to restore peace in the strife-torn north-eastern state. Addressing a gathering of RSS trainees at the conclusion of the organisation's 'Karyakarta Vikas Varg- Dwitiya' programme at the Dr Hedgewar Smriti Bhavan in Reshimbagh, Bhagwat highlighted the need to move beyond election rhetoric and concentrate on pressing national issues. "Manipur has been waiting for peace for the last one year. There was peace in Manipur 10 years ago, it felt like gun culture had finished there. But the state has suddenly seen violence," Bhagwat stated, as quoted by news agency PTI. "The situation in Manipur will have to be considered with...
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Tamil Nadu | A formidable front

Will the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) again be the third-largest party, behind the BJP and the Congress, in the 18th Lok Sabha? It’s a question that’s being bandied about in Tamil Nadu a lot these days as the state braces to vote in the first phase of the general election on April 19. The ruling DMK faces a different challenge this time, considering that rivals All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the BJP have forged separate alliances, unlike in 2019, to make it a triangular contest. The Tamil nationalist Naam Thamizhar Katchi (NTK) makes the contest, at least on paper, a quadrangular one. NTK had almost 7 per cent vote share in the 2021 assembly polls, finding favour among the younger voters. The party didn’t win any seats, but proved it could upset outcomes in close f...
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Aam Aadmi Party | Kejriwal at a crossroads

It was during the India Against Corruption (IAC) agitation in 2011 that Arvind Kejriwal shot to national fame. The movement, allegedly backed by the RSS-BJP, gave voice to the public anger against graft at a time when the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre was fighting allegations of several scams. Social activist Anna Hazare had been the face of the campaign but, by the next year, Kejriwal had shaped the public antipathy towards the political class into a creation of his making—the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Its election symbol, the broom, was an apt representation of its intent to clean up Indian polity, resonating widely with the capital’s disillusioned electorate. Source link
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Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini | Younger legs for the race
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Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini | Younger legs for the race

The unexpected is to be expected: that’s by now a motto in the BJP’s tactical playbook. But it always leaves a vast pool of possibilities. Where—rather, against whose name—would the roulette’s needle stop? The tall, lanky, bearded figure of Nayab Singh Saini is where it decided to stop on March 12. Soft of manner and speech, and perhaps even of ambition, the 54-year-old MP from Kurukshetra may have been as surprised as Manohar Lal Khattar was back in 2014 when picked as the chief minister of Haryana. The latter had an equally surprising exit clause sprung on him, six months short of a decade in office. Just the previous day, as he walked down the spanking-new Dwarka Expressway with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the 69-year-old Khattar had seemed supremely secure in saddle and stirrup. ...
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