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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”.
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.
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.
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.
Building on an inclusive Dravidian politics, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam has provided leadership to the opposition alliance countering the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Tamil Nadu has shown a better path for India’s development.
The Modi Government has unashamedly transferred enormous amounts of public funds and public wealth to the country’s biggest corporations. This has been the sole aim of PM Modi’s economic policies of the past 10 years. This article presents a brief overview of some of these transfers.
Modi targeting Muslim community of our country in his campaign speeches have no parallel in the electoral history of independent India. Jawaharlal Nehru had warned that employing communal rhetoric for votes would put the unity and integrity of the people and country in peril.
Though the union government has pumped in almost Rs 40,000 crore into the flagship Namami Gange programme since 2014, several concerns – including dysfunctional sewage treatment plants and bad governance – abound.
Over the past ten years, the BJP has outspent rivals in polls and begun building new party offices in every district and state in India, as well as made huge additions to its cash reserves. In addition, a handful of corporate firms have also seen an upswing in fortunes in the last ten years.
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