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‘How Did the Muslim Vote?’: Despite being the target of the Prime Minister’s public speeches and facing continuous discrimination, the Muslim voter has voted in support of saving the Constitution and India’s democracy. Also: ‘‘A Little Less Suffocating: Why Many Muslims View the Lok Sabha Verdict with Cautious Hope”.
It is necessary to revive the four key dimensions of Nehru’s vision for a modern nationhood — democracy, secularism, socialism and non-alignment.
In the Lok Sabha elections of 2024, given the absence of any explicit political wave, nobody can really tell which way the verdict will go. But irrespective of the outcome, there are clear signs the country is entering a new, more turbulent era and also one shifting away from the politics of the recent past.
Today we are facing a revivalist moment in our political history, ironically, as a free nation. It is a defeatist hangover of history to create a wedge between what we named and what named us. We adopted these names for centuries out of a spirit we call Indian, or Bharatiya.
Raging arguments over who was indeed Indian were put to rest with a vote that spoke in favour of an Article 5 without religious markers.
The exclusion and criminalisation of Muslim citizens through laws and state action are not as explicit as in Nazi Germany, but they violate the Constitution.
Parliamentary procedures have been tossed aside as an increasing number of laws are passed with little or no debate.
There is little reason to believe that a third term for Modi will result in the revival of Indian scientific research and innovation.
PM AASHA, a crop price support scheme, saw real spending only in the months around 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Three years in between the two general elections, the government did not spend a single rupee on the scheme.
The Sub Committee of Accreditation of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions decided to defer the accreditation of India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC-India) for the second consecutive year.
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