Most analysts expected #Modi to brush aside #India’s enervated & poorly funded opposition parties, some of which had their #bank accounts frozen & their leaders #jailed by the govt in the run-up to the #election.
Yet the mood shifted dramatically as early vote counts trickled in Tues morning & indicated that the #BJP might not single-handedly secure the 272 seats needed in the 543-member #LokSabha lower house, as it comfortably did in 2014 & 2019.
The Vice-President Was a Jat During the Farmers' and Wrestlers' Protests Too...
...and yet he had remained silent then. His invocation of the community is restricted to only instances that conveniently suit the ruling party, writes Akhil Chaudhary.
Pangs of Unemployment: Why India's Youth is Turning to Bhagat Singh
While the four have been booked under UAPA, this incident is the most powerful attempt to bring the issue of rising unemployment to national attention.
To Save Our Democracy, Anger With State Policy Must Be Tied to the Electoral Process
While politics is more than electoral politics and must include every means by which the residents of a country engage with their government, the mainstreaming of on-ground protest and the sidelining of the electoral process speaks to a loss of institutional credibility that goes beyond a single government, writes Sarayu Pani.
"The serial suspension of opposition members from the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, totalling 143—a record number—until December 20 after protests in both houses over the December 13 Parliament security breach has kicked up a political storm."
Shashi Tharoor, Supriya Sule, Farooq Abdullah among 49 Opposition MPs suspended from Lok Sabha
Earlier on Monday 78 MPs were suspended from both Houses of Parliament. With this the total number of suspended MPs in this session are 141, a figure unprecedented in the history of the Indian Parliament.
45 MPs from Rajya Sabha, 33 more from Lok Sabha suspended today
The 33 Lok Sabha MPs were suspended days after 14 others were handed the same penalty for disrupting the Winter Session by demanding a statement on the Parliament security breach.
Did the Lok Sabha Follow Due Process While Expelling Mahua Moitra From the House?
The ethics committee had no conclusive evidence of a cash trail leading to Mitra. Yet she was not given a chance to respond to the allegations, writes SN Sahu.
Mahua Moitra is a political opponent. As a woman, I stand with her
If we cannot unite as women to condemn what this government has done and the way it has behaved in this case, our silence will prove to be a fatal trap for generations of women after us, who have dreams of coming into public life, writes Brinda Karat.
'Beginning of the End, Will Fight You for the Next 30 Years': Moitra Fires at BJP After Expulsion
The extent of opposition unity was clearer outside. The INDIA alliance, seen to be on shaky ground after the Assembly polls, rallied behind the TMC member appealing to Speaker to let her speak in the House.
Grit and glamour: how Mahua Moitra shook up the misogyny and hypocrisy of Indian politics
A divorcee who likes a glass of wine and a pair of Ferragamo shoes, the opposition MP has become a target for character assassination for Narendra Modi’s conservatives. But she hits back twice as hard.
Lok Sabha ethics panel recommends disqualification of Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra
Six members vote in favour of the report while four Opposition MPs oppose it; panel has left it for the GOI to investigate and establish the ‘money trail’. In submission to panel, Moitra’s former partner advocate Dehradai says he has never met industrialist Hiranandani.