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Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, April 20 & 27, 2024
20 AprilThe 2024 elections have begun, and there were very disturbing photos shared by a prominent social activist on social media of huge election-time hoardings in Gujarat with images of the Ram temple & photos of the incumbent Prime Minister Modi. (...) -
The Disastrous Split and the Challenges Ahead | Ajayakumar Kodoth
20 April, by Ajayakumar KodothApril 2024 marks the 60th year of the CPI split in India
Sixty years have gone by since the Communist Party of India got split right down the middle. Following the Emergency, although the mainstream Communist parties – the CPI and the CPI (M) (...) -
Fear of love and loving in India | Sarasu Esther Thomas
20 AprilApril 11, 2024
The sanctity of a marriage provides no protection to interfaith couples and those in live-in relationships are even more vulnerable
Marriage is supposed to offer a couple legal and social protection. However, the sanctity of a (...) -
2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Urgent Action Required in Gandhi Nagar Lok Sabha, Gujarat against intimidation by the state machinery
20 April, by Shabnam HashmiTo: CEC, ECSSS, ECGK
Shri Rajiv Kumar The Chief Election Commissioner Election Commission of India New Delhi
19/04/2024
Sir,
I want to bring to your notice serious issues which need to be urgently looked into.
Last week I got several calls (...) -
2024 Lok Sabha Elections - Pre-poll commentary on the Karnataka Scene | JP Gadkari
20 April, by J P GadkariKarnataka election scene is hotting up with the polling day (26 April) for 14 seats from the southern half of the State Is fast approaching. The other northern half of the State will go to polls on May 7 for an equal number of seats. Since the (...) -
Does Congress Manifesto Reflect Muslim League thinking? | Ram Puniyani
20 April, by Ram PuniyaniLast week (4th April 2024) Indian National Congress released its manifesto, called Nyay Patra (Promise for Justice), for 2024 General Elections. It prominently talked of Caste census, raising the cap of 50% on reservations, jobs for youth, (...) -
Findings of ADR & National Election Watch / Prison Conditons | Humra Quraishi
20 April, by Humra Quraishi18 April 2024 Humra Quraishi
I read and re-read news reports focusing on the latest findings of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and the National Election Watch: A total of 250 candidates in the fray for the second phase of the (...) -
2024 Election Campaigns and Manifestos | P S Jayaramu
20 April23rd April 2024
We are in the midst of campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls, the first phase of it began on the 19th. Although it is somewhat accepted that at lower levels the campaign rhetoric becomes personal with attacks on the very persona of (...) -
2024 General Election: Modi Sees ’Foreign Hand’ Behind Opposition To Oust Him From Power | JP Gadkari
20 April, by J P GadkariAt last it has appeared, the "hidden foreign hand" behind the Opposition in India trying to "oust " Modi from power. Addressing an election rally in Chikaballapura, some 60 kms from Bengaluru, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday last week (...) -
2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Moral and Ethical Demand of the Power of the Ballot - An appeal for conscience Voting | Vijay Kumar
20 April, by Vijay KumarThe seven-phase long-winding electoral process has got underway with the election of the first phase on 19th April. The significance of the ballot is captured in matchless style by Winston Churchill in the following words:
“At the bottom of all (...)