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Hindu festivals and sectarian nationalist politics
RSS Combine’s agenda of Hindu Rashtra has been built upon the narratives through multiple mechanisms. The festivals have been the occasion for promoting its agenda. Also highlighting some deities...
FactChecked: 2024 Lok Sabha exit polls reveal conflicting predictions
Shashi Tharoor terms exit polls as unscientific
Why Indian exit polls are often biased and favour the ruling party
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EVMs thrown in pond by mob during final phase of Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal
West Bengal’s polls on the final day of voting sees mob violence as EVMs and VVPATs thrown away in water. The state’s CEO says that fresh EVMs were being organised.
India’s Sixth Phase of elections marked by missing voters and discrimination: Independent Election Observers (IEO)
Interim report of the Citizens Watch process in the national Capital city
Elections Stories I missed in the newspapers that I buy
In his priceless ruminations throughout the 18th Lok Sabha polls the senior journalist brings us to us the shadows and silences by the “commercial” (“mainstream”) media during the coverage of the recent elections
Former Justice KM Joseph: ECI doing the greatest disservice to the constitution and the founding fathers by not taking action against those seeking vote...
In his speech, Justice Joseph speaks on the importance of a free media and an impartial ECI to maintain the values enshrined in our Preamble and the Constitution
Bihar: RJD’s petition booth capturing and rigging at Munger dismissed by SC
The Supreme Court has directed RJD to take the matter up with the Patna High Court after RJD’s Anita Kumari filed her petition claiming that Bihar’s Munger has witnessed bogus voting, booth capturing, and prevention of backward castes from voting.
What Nehru Flagged as ‘Most Dangerous’ Modi Now Invokes for Votes
Nehru also flagged Syama Prasad’s statements that communalism and separatism were not the real problems of India as much as poverty and unemployment were.
Haryana Police body complains to Election Commissioner over votes stolen from them
HPS alleges that senior officials asked policemen deployed in election duty to handover their Form 12 with details and Unstamped Ballot Papers. Form 12 is a formal application for election duty staff to cast their votes through postal ballot.
MHA grants citizenship to applicants from West Bengal, Haryana, Uttarakhand; number of those granted citizenship not revealed
This is the second time since notification of CAA rules that citizenship have been granted to people; development comes as West Bengal goes to polling on June 1, 2024
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