Politics

A harrowing analysis by the team at Sabrang India has revealed a growing number of instances when voters have been publicly threatened by several BJP leaders as well as government officials from voting against them. 

The third phase of polling for India’s 18th Lok Sabha could have serious surprises in store for an aggressive and cocksure Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Gujarat, once considered a free run for prime minister Narendra Modi; as voting figures for the 26 parliamentary seats in the western Indian state -- reviled for its politics of exclusion both on the economic and socio-religious front (“Gujarat Model”)-- poured in late on Tuesday, communities and activists who had strived for change are cautiously hopeful; the turn in voter’s mood has been perceptible over the past six weeks. A minimum of four seats and upwards of eight for INDIA is the ground level prediction by Sabrangindia

Videos have emerged of resident Muslims claiming they were lathi charged at the polling booths. Samajwadi Party, which has won several times in the region, has also supported this claim.

With the BJP fighting to maintain its winning streak after it won 9 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, opposition parties have sped up their campaigning as well, giving a tough fight.

The platform representing several farmer organisations has urged farmers, workers, women and the common man to teach a lesson to the BJP in the 18th Lok Sabha elections

In a letter addressed to all the leaders of INDIA parties, regarding the discrepancies in the voting data released by Election Commission of India (ECI) and non-publishing of actual numbers of registered voters, Mallikarujun Kharge, Congress President has raised serious issues on the dysfunctional partisan conduct of the statutory body

Gujarat’s coast has seen thousands of structures demolished in government drives, many people allege Muslims were particularly targeted. In light of this, now over 500 such fishermen have now been denied the right to vote.

A video shared widely by the TMC purports to show footage taken by a hidden camera in which a Bharatiya Janata Party leader claims that the serious allegations of sexual crimes that had come forth from Sandeshkhali in the last few months were all false.

Talking to eNewsroom, Hemant Soren's wife and INDIA bloc candidate from Gandey also said that the Soren family taught me to live with dignity and confidence

Reports have come in from Mathura of Muslim voters encountering several difficulties in being able to vote in the country’s second phase of the 18th Lok Sabha elections on April 26.