The key reasons cited for BJP's poor performance in recently held by-polls could be summarized as increasing incidents of lynching on dalits (lowest caste people in Indian community) and the minority communities, particularly the Muslims over beef controversies, and the "not-so-successful" economic...
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Technology a boon to voters in India Dr. S.Y. Quraishi, former head of the Election Commission of India, recently penned an article in which he provides some interesting insights on the benefits technology has brought to Indian [...] Read Full Article Online survey reveals voters want more...
In India, which has national elections spread out over several weeks in different states, for example, a politician in Mumbai recently encouraged migrant workers in his party to vote in their home states on May 17 and then to return to vote in Mumbai on May 24.35 In a similar way, ...
On the inaugural day of the recently concluded AIF & PMS conclave 2.0, powered by ET Markets, Nilesh Shah, Managing Director of Kotak Mutual Fund, painted a cautiously optimistic picture of the Indian market post-elections. He...
Since 2014, the BJP has become increasingly dominant in Uttar Pradesh, India, a state where, as recently as 2012, its vote share had slumped to 15 percent. This paper examines, through ethnographic field research with party workers and others, the reasons for the turnaround in the party’s...
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until recently when the Truman Library finally released his tax returns showing very significant income for all years. The then undisputed claim of near-poverty was sufficient to gain Congressional support for paying a federal pension to former presidents, beginning with Truman and Hoover in 1958. ...
O'Rourke has been a supporter of comprehensive immigration reform and but has shifted to a more progressive stance on the issue recently. In 2014, he called President Obama's executive action creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program to shield young undocumented immigrants ...