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Ajay K. Mehra

Ajay K. Mehra

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Congress's Manifesto Signals Party's Welcome Return to its Ideological Moorings

Having lost two consecutive general elections in 2014 (leading the coalition United Progressive Alliance) and in 2019 (without any alliance), the...

17.04.2024 20

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Ajay K. Mehra

Ladakh Stir Shows a Smouldering Ember for Autonomy in India

Sonam Wangchuk – engineer, innovator, educator and activist – made famous when his pioneering school became the theme for the Hindi movie Three...

04.04.2024 10

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Ajay K. Mehra

Simultaneous Elections Will Be a Blow to India’s Popular Sovereignty

The Ramnath Kovind committee, constituted on September 2, 2023, to operationalise Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s desire of ‘one nation, one...

24.03.2024 10

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Divided Cadre, Soft Hindutva and Other Factors That Don't Help the Congress

Rahul Gandhi and the Congress under his leadership have flunked the litmus test in the assembly elections. The Bharat Jodo Yatra has had a limited...

08.12.2023 4

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The Assembly Polls Are a Litmus Test for Congress and Rahul Gandhi

Both processes and results of elections reflect institutional robustness and the resilience of parties, aside from the numbers in legislatures, and...

19.11.2023 20

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Ajay K. Mehra

NewsClick Raids and Arrests: Demolishing the Myth of the ‘Urban Naxal' Nomenclature

The search and seizure operation at the residences of 46 journalists associated with NewsClick and the arrests of two people are transparently part of...

09.10.2023 10

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Ajay K. Mehra

By Harping on Sanatan Dharma as Hinduism BJP Hopes to Keep its Base Vote Intact

By whipping up a storm over the comments of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader, Karunanidhi’s grandson and minister in the Tamil Nadu state...

29.09.2023 30

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Ajay K. Mehra

Simultaneous Elections: Why Now?

With the constitution of a committee of seven chaired by former president Ram Nath Kovind to make recommendations on simultaneous elections at each of...

11.09.2023 10

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Ajay K. Mehra

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