Leading among the states with the worst sex ratio, Haryana, again displays its patriarchal mind-set in the number of women candidates competing in the parliamentary elections. Of the 223 candidates competing for 10 seats, only 11 are women candidates. Of the 1.80 crore registered electors, 83, 40,173 are women. Despite this huge representation of women […]
The East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency in the national capital has seen a major clash between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Atishi Marlena of AAP held a press conference on Thursday, accusing her BJP opponent, Gautam Gambhir, a former cricketer, of circulating pamphlets with derogatory and abusive language addressed […]
Violence took over West Bengal’s Asansol city in the middle of the fourth round of voting today for the national election, while an unaware Moon Moon Sen, the Trinamool Congress candidate from the said seat, fussed over getting her bed tea “very late”, NDTV reported. She said she “hadn’t heard anything” because she was sleeping and had […]
Bollywood and politics are two fields which often go together, albeit on parallel tracks. There are many film personalities who have dabbled in politics in yesteryear and many continue to do it even today. But when it comes to making obvious political statements, Bollywood as an industry has largely remained apolitical. Not everyday do you […]
In our country political frenzy kind of never ceases, but right now it’s taking epidemic proportions with everyone being bitten by the election bug. Discussions, dialogues, debates, WhatsApp messages, Facebook forwards, Insta posts and Tweets are buzzing overtime with opinions and analyses. Like the deadly Candida Auris, Candida Poll-uris too is feeding off the “weakened […]
Silver medallist at the Rio Paralympics, Deepa Malik, joined BJP on Monday. She joined the party’s Haryana unit, in the presence of state unit chief Subhash Barala and general secretary and in-charge Anil Jain. “We welcome her into the party. She is an inspiration for all of us. She has made the country proud,” Jain said, welcoming Deepa Malik […]
The Indian election season is in high peak! No wonder that the global media attention is focussed on this gigantic democratic exercise which has more than nine hundred million voters on the roll. Now, in this battle of ballots, perhaps there is something to cheer about. India, a country enduring an adverse sex ratio for […]
Your vote is a weapon, said Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi. With the 2019 Lok Sabha election on the way, are women in India truly using this weapon? A recent BBC report highlights there are 21 million women in India apparently ‘missing’ from the voters’ list. The Problem In their upcoming book, The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections, Prannoy Roy and […]
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi made her debut public speech in Gujarat today, after formally joining the Congress party in January this year. Gandhi launched her speech articulating the fact that the 2019 Lok Sabha election is in no way less than the struggle for Independence. “This struggle is in no way less than the struggle […]
The new year began with a bang for a number of reasons, not least the announcement of the alliance between the SP and the BSP, for the forthcoming general elections. The news channels are all agog with the Bua-bathija pact which, everyone agrees, will have a decisive impact on the results in UP. The meeting […]
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