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RELIGIOUS minorities in India have not forgotten the waves of communal violence that killed thousands in the previous decade, and neither have human rights organisations.

282/543. To say that’s a landslide victory is to state the obvious. The media saw it coming. They called it the ‘Modi wave.’ Some veterans in the Congress party saw it coming – they decided to save their ‘hard-earned’ money that would otherwise have gone down the drain called election spending and stayed away from the contest.

IT was expected, but many have still been surprised by the extent to which the Church has entered the political arena ahead of India’s most bitterly fought general election in decades.

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.

MADHYA Pradesh's BJP-run government has ordered state-funded schools and even madrassas to introduce stories from the Bhagwad Gita in junior classes, triggering a storm in the Muslim community.

VISHWA Hindu Parishad’s international secretary Pravin Togadia has alleged that Hindus in India are being denied of human rights. He has also come with a ‘solution’ to end the bias allegedly being perpetrated by ‘vote-mongers'.

“WE demand that the National Investigation Agency probe Sangh terror suspects Indresh, Aseemanand, Col. Purohit, Dr. Praveen Togadia and others in Kandhamal violence of 2007-2008,” said the memo.

FORMER Karnataka High Court judge M F Saldanha has accused chief minister B S Yeddyurappa and home minister V S Acharya of being party to attacks on churches in Karnataka in September 2008, in an ‘independent’ report he compiled on the attacks.

THE Narmada Samajik Kumbh held in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh which began on Feb 10 concluded without any untoward incident. An estimated two million people are said to have participated in the event.