Tag: Lok Sabha polls

The country has been through hell in the past five years. Lynchings in the name of cow protection, demonetisation, GST, religious tensions, tanking of the GDP growth, gagging of all institutions and the rise of aggressive Hindutva politics have seen minorities being terrorised, the economy getting battered, justice being denied and the nation becoming a laughing stock in the international arena.

By Nirmala Carvalho GREATER attention to India's ethnic and religious minorities, corruption, social justice, empowerment of women, education, support for the sick, the disabled and...

At a press conference in Kakinada on Tuesday national core committee member K Prabhu Kumar and party official spokesman Suvarta Raju announced that the decade-old recognised national party would strive for "social justice" to all sections.

VOTING for India's 16th Lok Sabha will be held in nine phases between 7 April and 12 May. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- the political wing of the Hindutva forces (collectively known as the Sangh Parivar) -- is poised for a landslide win.

POLITICAL leaders of various hues are ready to face yet another electoral battle. Polling booths, you can say, are the laboratories where the candidates are tested. Sometimes, candidates are more anxious and frightened than say the children who face board exams in 10th and 12th grades.

BHARATIYA Janata Party president Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday that his party was yet to take a call on whether to project or not...