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Radical socialist statement on Bihar Election results
What was expected to be a very close fought election turned out to be a massive victory for the NDA in Bihar. To what extent did the 65 lakhs...
From news to real estate: P Sainath on how corporate power is undermining media freedom
The other day, P. Sainath was in Ahmedabad to...
Labour rights, health of workers hit in the name of “reform”: PUCL Maharashtra
A detailed statement by the Maharashtra unit of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has, with reasoned arguments, critiqued the recent decision of the MahaYuti government in Maharashtra to curtail labour rights in the name of “reform”; Maharashtra government’s decision is in line with other states like Telangana, Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh and Tripura (two of these are Congress ruled states) which have also enacted similar legislations.
Protests across Maharashtra denounce the Public Security Act as unconstitutional and anti-democratic
Opposition, rights groups, and people’s movements unite to call it an “anti-people, anti-democratic law”
Election Commission seriously risks losing all credibility: senior advocate Sanjay Hegde
Senior advocate, Supreme Court Sanjay Hegde on Saturday, September 6, raised concerns over the credibility of the Election Commission of India, cautioning that the institution is increasingly being viewed as partisan, speaking at the annual public lecture on the occasion of Gauri Lankesh’s brutal assassination
Love, caste, politics: Pannalal Patel’s timeless novel challenges Italia’s claims
Following my blog "AAP’s rising star in Gujarat or guardian of...
New Immigration Order 2025: Streamlined rules, old exclusions
MHA’s latest notification streamlines exemptions for select groups, formalises detention centres, and echoes religion-based exclusions first introduced in 2015, raising constitutional and human rights concerns
The Nation needs an Ethanol Republic – A Satire
The author, under the pseudonym of Cyrus Behramji Puranafurniturewala, urges the Minister to consider expanding the list of ethanol blended goodies. These may have significant economic and ecological benefits and could also contribute to making India’s Happiness Index rise up sharply!
1.88 lakh dubious double voters found in Bihar, unusual deletion patterns raise doubts
Bihar SIR: 3.76 lakh dubious duplicate votes found, while 65 lakh voters were deleted under suspicious circumstances, the twin reports expose a flawed electoral revision process with high concentrations of mysterious young deaths, biased gender deletions, and unverified "shifts"
89 lakh complaints of irregularities during Bihar SIR were rejected by ECI: Congress
Congress claims that the ECI rejected 89 lakh complaints filed by its BLAs on Bihar's electoral roll revision, citing suspicious deletions of women and other groups, while the Bihar CEO denies receiving any valid objections in the prescribed format; at the last hearing of the matter in the SC, the Commission has stated that political parties have “no political parties have filed objections to the Bihar SIR draft roll”
In Bihar 3 lakh electors served with doubtful citizen notices by Election Commission
During Bihar's Special Intensive Revision, over 3 lakh voters were flagged for document discrepancies, field checks raised suspicion of foreign origin—Bangladesh, Myanmar, Afghanistan or Nepal, the suspected voters have been served notices and directed to appear before authorities within seven days
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In Bhagalpur’s Pirpainti, the senior BJP leader urged “Muslim brothers” to reduce their population and referred to “infiltrators,” breaching the Model Code of Conduct and constitutional values
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Hindutva’s Rajasthan Project: Brahmin-Bania Power, not just Muslim baiting
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When Conservation Becomes Coercion: The silent violence faced by the Tharus of Kheri
Over 4,000 Tharu Adivasis in Lakhimpur Kheri — including a blind man, a chronically ill man, and several elders — have been wrongfully booked. This analysis shows how administrative discretion and recent forest-law amendments are further undermining the protections guaranteed to forest-dwelling communities under the Forest Rights Act, 2006
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Lives in the Margins: Reading India’s suicide data beyond the numbers
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Hate Speech
CJP seeks action against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM’s Tausif Alam for election code violations in Bihar
In twin complaints to the Election Commission, Citizens for Justice and Peace (CJP) alleges Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and AIMIM candidate Tausif Alam of crossing constitutional red lines — one by communalising the campaign with hate-laden rhetoric, the other by threatening brutal violence against a rival, exposing the deep decay of democratic discourse in the Bihar elections
India
PIL filed in the Patna High Court, claims the MMR Yojana was used to influence voters by making payments after the MCC was in effect
‘Mukhyamantri Mahila Rojgar Yojana’: A Public Interest Litigation [PIL] filed in the Patna High Court accuses the Bihar government of ‘political bribery,’ it alleges the state brazenly disbursed 2,500 crores in cash grants to 25 lakh women after the Model Code of Conduct for the 2025 Assembly Elections was already in effect