The acquittal of the 67 Naroda Gam massacre accused to provide mileage to the BJP
The acquittal of the 67 Naroda Gam massacre accused, which took place in February 2002, will bolster the BJP’s prospects and weaken its opponents.
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Anti-Muslim violence on the rise in India: what’s its driving force?
The recent spate in anti-Muslim violence in India, especially after Ram Navami, shows that the BJP is desperate to win 2022 and 2023 polls.
What’s behind Modi’s record 8.6m COVID-19 vaccination on a single day?
While Modi and the BJP jeered the record 8.6m COVID-19 vaccination on a single day on June 21st, what drove this rapid surge in vaccination remains concealed.
The BJP’s assault on labour rights exposes real intention behind COVID-19 lockdown
The cat was peeping out of the bag for long, but with the the BJP’s assault on labour rights under the garb of fighting COVID-19 menace brought it out.
The Ahmedabad wall to hide the slums unites Trump and Modi’s fascism
Donald Trump’s penchant for wall building is well known, so the Ahmedabad wall to hide the slums will play a great role in uniting Trump and Modi’s fascism.
Vijay Rupani’s fireworks in Pakistan if BJP loses jibe proves Gujarat Model no more working
Now that the Gujarat Model can’t be dangled before the people to fool them, the BJP is back to its Pakistan fireworks rhetoric to even win polls in Gujarat.
The Statue of Unity Established by a Divisive Government is a Farce
Ever since the Narendra Modi-led BJP government was formed, everything that the previous governments and the Indian state’s own propaganda credited as the quintessential binding factors holding the country together as a united nation, started falling apart, quite unequivocally, paving way for new fissures to appear and widened the crack in the pot called India. … Read more
Anti-Migrant Labour Violence in Gujarat Exposes the Real “Gujarat Model”
A recent spree of mob violence against the Hindi-speaking North Indian migrant labours in North Gujarat has forced thousands of poor workers into exodus. Dalit and lower-caste workers from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand are targeted by upper-caste mobsters after a migrant labour was accused of brutally raping a 14-month-old toddler in North … Read more
Sanjiv Bhatt is Arrested Because the Modi Regime is Frustrated
The arrest of Sanjiv Bhatt, an ex-IPS officer who has been a vocal critic of Narendra Modi and his regime, once again showed the crisis in which the Modi regime is deeply immersed and its inability to continuously hoodwink people with communal diatribe, xenophobic tirade or cacophony of “development”, to cover-up its heinous deeds. Sanjiv … Read more
Gujarat Assembly Election and the Problem of Secularism
The narrow victory of the BJP in Gujarat and its bagging of Himachal Pradesh from the control of the Congress will provide a breather to the RSS-led Hindutva fascist camp for the time being, however, the massive mass discontent that became visible in the citadel of Amit Shah and Narendra Modi, signalled that all is … Read more
Review of Gujarat Assembly Election 2017 Results :
The much-awaited and much-discussed Gujarat assembly election 2017 results are out and as anticipated by the majority of the democratic and progressive camp, the BJP, once more, won the election by using the age-old Hindutva strategy to polarise the voters to sweep the polls. The BJP has won 99 seats out of 182 in the … Read more
The Rise of Rahul Gandhi Can’t Lift the Fallen Hand of Congress
The Congress was pronounced dead post-2014 rise of Narendra Modi, the fascist tyrant who is set to rule India, along with his coterie of RSS-trained hardcore Hindutva fascists for decades to come. The resurrection of the Congress Party and the glorification of its present and past leaders, especially of the new party chief – Rahul … Read more
Know About Narendra Modi’s Love for Vallabhbhai Patel
The Narendra Modi government has brought a peculiar trend in India – celebrating the idea of “national unity” by spreading divisiveness; talking about the unity of the country by actually dividing the people of the country into sectarian lines. It’s the first government of India, which overtly, and quite unapologetically, identifies the unity of India … Read more
Gujarat Assembly Election: Silence Reigns on the Issue of Muslims and Social Justice
The forthcoming Gujarat Assembly Election has turned on the political heat in the state and the country’s mainstream media is focusing on the battle-of-words between the incumbent BJP and the opposition Congress, which is trying hard to seize control of the state after nearly two decades of banging head against the wall. Within this cacophony, … Read more
Attack on Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat is not a Joke
The Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi was attacked by the BJP goons, during his Gujarat tour, where we went to take stock of the flood situation that is prevailing in the BJP-ruled state. The Sangh workers threw stones at the car ferrying Rahul Gandhi and it injured his PSO. Rahul Gandhi and the entire opposition … Read more
Patidar Andolan in Gujarat is a decoy tool of the BJP against Dalits
(This article was first published in August 2015 in the previous version of People’s Review. Due to an incident of hacking the old website was pulled down and we could only restore the old articles in this section) The story of a certain Patel, Hardik Patel, is making rounds in the national mainstream media. Hyped … Read more