उत्तर प्रदेश में लोकसभा-2014 के चुनाव-परिणाम इसलिये नहीं चैंकाते हैं कि भाजपा की इतनी बड़ी जीत अप्रत्याशित थी, बल्कि इसलिये चैंकाते हैं कि इसने बसपा का सूपड़ा साफ कर दिया है और सपा को पाॅंच सीटों पर समेट दिया है। उत्तर प्रदेश की राजनीति में सपा-बसपा की इस शर्मनाक पराजय के दूरगामी अर्थ हैं। कुछ चिन्तकों का कहना है कि … Continue reading सपा, बसपा और हमारी भूमिका – कॅंवल भारती
From Partition to Muzaffarnagar, the history of riots has been a celebration of rape. Muzaffarnagar sounds like it’s a part of the UP badlands, while pundits hair-split words like responsibility and secularism. If you were to ask most citizens what the most exciting event of the year was, most would talk excitedly about the rule of the Aam Aadmi Party. If you were to detain … Continue reading The silence of Muzaffarnagar – Shiv Vishvanathan
Year after year there are major riots in the country. Yet the UPA is sitting over Communal and targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill! How many lives must be lost before the UPA Govt. wakes up to the reality that special situations require special laws? There have been more than 40,000 casualties since the year 1950. Hardly any foot soldier has been punished … Continue reading Concerns Arising From Muzaffarnagar Riots – Irfan Engineer
Lucknow: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is all set to storm Uttar Pradesh soon. Sources in the BJP here say the party wants to run an aggressive campaign laced with ‘Hindutva’ for the Lok Sabha election, and no one would be able to do that better than Modi. So, no one should be surprised if Modi starts bellowing about the Ram temple in Ayodhya at … Continue reading Modi to take centrestage in UP
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