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It’s ‘Advantage INDIA bloc’ in the first phase of Lok Sabha election

The turnout figures on the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 19 can be the first indication of the national mood.

18.04.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Everyone says ‘aayega to Modi hi’—some with a drumroll, many with despair

Modi’s presence is no longer enough to brush every other issue under the carpet. His charisma is beginning to wane, making way for other...

15.04.2024 20

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

India is going to have its least free & fair election in 2024. See these 5 indicators

So far what we have seen of the 2024 elections is enough to indicate that the continuous slide of democratic standards is headed toward breaching the...

29.03.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra quietly achieved something that the original didn’t

We don’t need a grand conspiracy theory to understand the lack of attention to BJY 2.0. But if you judge it by its impact on the Lok Sabha election,...

21.03.2024 20

ThePrint

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Unemployment is now election issue. Can Congress’ Pehli Naukri Pakki apprenticeship swing it?

Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge's job guarantee promise queers the pitch for the ruling BJP, which must now scramble to make a competitive offer....

08.03.2024 10

ThePrint

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Dhruv Rathee’s question is wrong. Instead, ask what kind of democracy India is becoming

Dhruv Rathee’s viral video asks if India is becoming a dictatorship. The problem is that it is an over-stylised description that lets the present...

02.03.2024 30

ThePrint

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Farmers’ protest has moved MSP debate from ‘why’ to ‘how’. Now we await final stage of ‘when’

There are many who stick to textbook economics and ask why MSP should exist. But the debate has moved on to concrete discussions on how MSP can be...

23.02.2024 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Congress finally has MSP mudda against Modi. But 2 more steps to go for it to work in 2024

Legal guarantee of MSP as per Swaminathan Commission formula tops the farmers' list of demands. The Congress has aligned itself with an ongoing and...

15.02.2024 10

ThePrint

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How to Cut Through the Fog in Election Surveys 

This is a translated transcript of a video by Yogendra Yadav, lightly edited for style and clarity. Election season is here which means it is...

14.02.2024 10

The Wire

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Rahul Gandhi is conquering the margins like Shivaji did. Is this marginal politics?

The so-called ‘middle class’ is not the fat middle but a thin crust in Indian society. Politics of the margins is mainstream politics as the...

07.02.2024 10

ThePrint

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The Republic is dead and no point blaming BJP-RSS. We need a new political language

India has a new constitution now that institutes the will of the majority community to draw a line of fire that no organ of the government can cross.

26.01.2024 60

ThePrint

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The new Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra has a dream. Coalition of the bottom of the pyramid

Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra by Congress is political in a deeper sense. It’s not alliance-making or social engineering.

19.01.2024 30

ThePrint

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Three battlefields for INDIA to fight in 2024—and defeat BJP

The terms of conditions for my analysis assume that the next few months won’t see a big surge in BJP's vote share—of the kind seen in the run-up...

10.01.2024 10

ThePrint

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EVM debate has a solution. And it’s neither the ballot paper nor INDIA’s new demand

Pure stonewalling or hiding behind claims of technical perfection won’t do. The ECI must prove that its systems are above suspicion.

22.12.2023 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

Look beyond lazy explanations on 2023 election outcome—changes and shift everyone missed

Based on the post-poll survey by Lokniti-CSDS, we can now bust some of the popular myths around the 2023 assembly elections and say what did not...

14.12.2023 50

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Never mind BJP’s hat-trick. Cold, hard numbers show Opposition is still in the game

On the eve of the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, I had written an article, ‘Never Mind the Pollsters, the Race is Still Open’ (The Hindu, March 15,...

08.12.2023 20

Indian Express

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Congress’ Telangana turnaround is the untold story of 2023 elections. Is it hawa or aandhi?

The history of electoral waves tells us that once a wave is set in motion, last-minute tricks are of little consequence.

29.11.2023 9

ThePrint

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Can Ashok Gehlot run a good govt and yet lose elections? The big question in Rajasthan

Very few people in the state speak ill of Gehlot. Even BJP voters admit it: 'Kaam to kiya hai', before asserting, 'Lekin Rajasthan mein sarkar to...

23.11.2023 10

ThePrint

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The real question in Madhya Pradesh polls no one is asking. No, not the Congress-BJP margin

At a deeper plane, forces of social churning in MP have been active below the radar.

16.11.2023 4

ThePrint

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India has gone into data discomfort. Explains silence on Bihar caste inequality

Whether it’s economic status or educational and employment opportunities, caste remains the principal factor in India. The entire country needs...

10.11.2023 10

ThePrint

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Bhagwant Mann’s official farce on SYL issue shows a deeper nationalism crisis is here

Punjab has had a rich tradition of progressive civil society organisations and intellectuals. But today, Punjab and Haryana are parroting their...

03.11.2023 5

ThePrint

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Does India need a ceiling on election expenditure? We’re better off without this fiction

I am told this time that no candidate in Telangana's Munugode is expected to spend less than Rs 100 crore in each assembly segment.

27.10.2023 5

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

PM Modi asked ‘what is wrong with majoritarianism’. It’s a fair question

When Yogi Adityanath talks about 80-20, he is not claiming 80% of UP’s resources for 80% of the population; he is striving to deprive the remaining...

20.10.2023 5

ThePrint

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Lack of data on citizens is not just an administrative crisis. It is now a humanitarian one

All in one week. Arundhati Roy faces prosecution in 2023 for statements she made in 2010! Raids at the residences of 46 journalists, editors, writers...

13.10.2023 10

Indian Express

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Caste census is necessary for any well-designed policy to reduce social inequality

Let us begin with the X-ray question. Are you for it, or against it? A reasonable answer would be, “It depends. Normally yes, if it is required and...

13.10.2023 5

Indian Express

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Bihar census identified the privileged and under-privileged castes. Go national now

Dr Ambedkar's goal of annihilation of caste cannot be achieved by closing our eyes to the existence of caste and caste-based inequalities.

06.10.2023 10

ThePrint

Yogendra Yadav

INDIA alliance hasn’t boycotted journalism. It has only refused to dance with the jokers

'Journalism' that has caused riots, lynching, and hatred must be called out. In the next step, name and shame those who write pay checks for these...

28.09.2023 8

ThePrint

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Why India won’t see women’s reservation in effect until 2039—it’s about trickery

Women’s reservation bill is less than precise, sub-optimal, and uncertain. But the history of such reforms tells us something: once enacted, it...

22.09.2023 10

ThePrint

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Parliament will tell you 3 stories at special session. All of them are false

SRK’s Jawan teaches us to read the truth of fantasies. Use that knowledge to understand why the current crisis may be described as 'democracy...

14.09.2023 3

ThePrint

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