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The head of the BJP, JP Nadda, has set a lofty goal for his party: to sweep all nine state elections this year. Even before the 2024 Lok Sabha election campaign begins, such a landslide will demoralise the opposition. The BJP has also set its sights on 160 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha where it expects to face difficult competition. Such forethought is uncommon in Indian politics. This has made the BJP a formidable electoral force. It's easy to see why Nadda would want to concentrate on the assembly elections. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP have a stranglehold on national politics, the BJP has yet to achieve the same level of dominance in state assemblies. Clearly, the BJP hasn't ruled out the potential of local political developments maturing into a coordinated ...

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Investigating Structure Of Criminal Justice System: Analysis

Sayani ChakrabortyJanuary 17, 20230

The 1860 Indian Penal Code (IPC) underpins India's criminal justice system. This document outlines the country's criminal laws. Criminal justice ensures victims receive justice and perpetrators are punished. Criminal defendants will be treated equally and have their legal rights protected. Police, courts, and jails make up India's criminal justice system. The police investigate crimes and apprehend criminals, and victims first contact them. The judicial system punishes through trials and sentences, while the correctional system rehabilitates and prevents reoffending. Law enforcement, courts, and prisons are crucial to India's criminal justice system. Police investigate crime, find criminals, and enforce the law. The judiciary must uphold justice and impartiality. Rehabilitating inm...

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Some States Routinely Leak Exam Papers: Computerized Testing Must Be Implemented

Sayani ChakrabortyJanuary 2, 20230

To compete for a limited number of jobs, India has a large supply-demand mismatch, which has encouraged widespread corruption. One major manifestation of this corruption is the widespread use of paper leaks in everything from Grade 10 and 12 exams to government job fairs. But there are some states that stand out as being especially vulnerable, and Rajasthan is one of them after reporting yet another scandal on Saturday. This time, over 3 lakh people were impacted when a senior teacher recruitment exam had to be cancelled due to a leaked paper. The REET for primary and upper primary teachers had over 16 lakh applicants when it was cancelled earlier this year. Aspiring secretaries, cops, and rangers have all experienced the same fate. It's bad enough having to retake an exam for no go...

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India Must Boost Its Counterintelligence As The World Scenario Deteriorates And Fluctuates

Sayani ChakrabortyJanuary 2, 20230

The suspicious murders in Odisha of a Russian businessman and politician who was a vocal Putin opponent should raise red flags in India's security services. The politician's death has been ruled accidental for the time being, but numerous questions have been raised because the local police did not follow standard operating procedure and keep the viscera following the post-mortem. A hospital window in Moscow is where the chairman of Russia's second-largest oil business met his untimely end. Like many others, he had demanded that Russia halt its military operation. Deadly mysteries have been around nearly as long as political intrigue and warfare on a global scale. In addition, it is common knowledge that intelligence agencies from time to time engage in what the Americans call "extre...

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‘Keep Sharp Weapons At Home To Cut Enemy’s Head’: BJP’s Pragya Singh Thakur Condemns ‘Love Jihad’

Sayani ChakrabortyDecember 27, 20220

The BJP lawmaker, speaking at a rally in Shivamogga, Karnataka, condemned "love jihad" and urged Hindus to refrain from sending their children to missionary schools. Pragya Singh Thakur, a member of Parliament for the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), caused a stir on December 25 when he urged a crowd in Shivamogga, Karnataka, to "keep weapons at home" and "chop enemy's head." The BJP lawmaker claimed as much while speaking at the annual convention of the Hindu Jagarana Vedike's South Region in the city of Karnataka. Keep the knives you use to chop veggies in good working order. Not sure when something will happen. Anyone can and should take measures to ensure their own safety. If someone breaks into our home and starts attacking us, we have every right to d...

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Opposition In India Has Miniscule Influence In Elections And It Is Likely To Continue

Sayani ChakrabortyDecember 24, 20220

When Suhas Palshikar argues that one party dominates the political landscape, voters follow every election in the hopes that a new contender will emerge to challenge the incumbent. Recent midterm elections in November and December of 2022 were no different. Even the municipal elections in Delhi were essentially treated as if they were for the state assembly. Elections for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) have gained national attention alongside those in the neighbouring states of Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat. When the BJP, which had previously controlled all three of Delhi's pre-merger municipal councils, was defeated by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the latter became the centre of attention rather than the Modi government. A stable dominance of one party leads to churning among ...

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Modi May Help A Fractured Opposition Learn The Democratic Connotation!

Sayani ChakrabortyDecember 22, 20220

In spite of setbacks in Delhi and Himachal Pradesh, the BJP's overwhelming victory in Gujarat proved once again that Narendra Modi is to the voting booth what Amitabh Bachchan is to the movie office: an absolute guarantee of massive financial success. The PM's decision to prioritise development above populist handouts was a major factor in the lotus party's resounding victory in the state election. However, the Opposition, represented by AAP and Congress, contributed to the saffron juggernaut by failing to show a united front and splitting any anti-incumbency votes. This made a BJP victory inevitable. The Opposition has often proven to be more divisive within itself than it is with its purported electoral foe. As a result, the dance of democracy, which is supposed to be a planned...

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Poor Air Quality Is A Nationwide Problem With No State-Specific Solutions

Sayani ChakrabortyDecember 12, 20220

There is a common misconception that India's air pollution problem is limited to the seven states spanning from Punjab in the northwest to West Bengal in the southeast, which make up the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) airshed. This was debunked by the report. Recent air quality index values in Mumbai and Chennai, two coastal metros, were worse than those in Delhi. All in all, it's a worrying situation. Of the 50 most polluted cities in the world, 35 are in India, according to the latest World Air Quality Report. The negative impacts of poor air quality on public health are widespread. According to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, air pollution was responsible for 18% of fatalities in India in 2019. The cost to the economy was 1.36 percent of GDP. Within India, the poorest states ...

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Gujarat Election: BJP Promises To Create Gujarat A $1 Trillion Economy

Sayani ChakrabortyNovember 30, 20220

With the long-awaited release of the BJP's election platform, it's time to take a closer look at the poll-promises fight taking place in the Gujarat assembly elections. With promises to create a Uniform Civil Code, a bill to seize the assets of rioters, a deradicalization cell within the police force, and stringent limitations on religious conversion, the manifesto plays to the Hindutva gallery. That's not just empty talk. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has demonstrated that these kinds of promises resonate with a certain subset of Gujarat voters, and neither the Congress nor the occasional Hindutva-lite excursions by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have offered an effective response. Despite BJP's seeming dominance in shaping the terms of public debate across sectors, there is one a...

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SC Upholding EWS Quota Shows Its Ignorance Of Socio-Economic Fairness And Equality

Sayani ChakrabortyNovember 24, 20220

In 1985, Justice Chinnappa Reddy ruled that quotas should be utilised for equality, not charity. His ruling explains the social justice goals of Indian reservations clearly and movingly. The fact that the judiciary, which had previously rejected such notions of social justice, finally accepted the view of politicians and the majority of Indians regarding the need for vertical reservations in jobs and education to create a truly equal India is a landmark decision that will continue to symbolise this. Consider the Supreme Court's ruling in Janhit Abhiyan v Union of India (2022), which upheld the 103rd amendment in the context of reservations for economically poorer sector (EWS). By upholding the 103rd amendment, the Court implied such reservations are for charity, not parity. All thre...

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People Want To Sue Over Morbi Tragedy Can Do So In Gujarat HC: Supreme Court

Sayani ChakrabortyNovember 22, 20220

Since a division bench led by the Chief Justice of the Gujarat high court had already taken suo motu note of the incident and issued many directives, the bench stated that it will not be hearing the applications at this time. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear two petitions seeking independent inquiries into the bridge collapse in Morbi, Gujarat, that claimed the lives of more than 140 people. The court cited the fact that the Gujarat high court had already taken suo motu cognisance of the matter. The high court was ordered to keep an eye on the investigation and any other developments relating to it by a bench consisting of Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and Justice Hima Kohli. The bench explained that it would not be hearing the petitions at this time since a division b...

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Congress Party Needs To Rethink Why Its Telangana Plan Hasn’t Worked

Sayani ChakrabortyNovember 21, 20220

The Congress party's low performance in the Munugode bypoll was expected. A sitting seat was lost in a byelection and the Congress candidate couldn't preserve the security deposit while Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra was in the state. In August, former Congress MLA Komatireddy Raj Gopal Reddy prompted another byelection. The BJP intends to show that BRS vs. Congress is giving way to BRS vs. BJP in Telangana by using byelections. The state's ruling party, Telangana Rashtra Samiti, has changed its name to Bhartiya Rashtra Samiti. This clever tactic recalls how the BJP used Congress leaders and cadre to oust the CPM in Tripura. The Congress is tumbling like a house of cards in Telangana as the BJP uses a systematic plan to destroy it. BRS, BJP have more resources and fighte...