What’s behind the BJP’s victory in the 2023 assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan? Beyond numbers, lies a complicated web of political and organisational factors.
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.
While the urban upper-caste Hindu elites and middle-class celebrate Christmas, Christians of India continue to suffer persecution by Hindutva
What do the 2021 bypoll results indicate? Was this a mandate against the BJP and the Modi regime? Or was it hyper-local reaction to policies?
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 recent anti-Muslim violence in Madhya Pradesh is an attempt by the BJP and the RSS to deflate the farmers’ movement with communalism.
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.
Is it right to merely blame Jyotiraditya Scindia for the Madhya Pradesh fiasco? Or is it the fault of the dynastic feudal hegemony that thrives in polity?
The Madhya Pradesh political crisis shows how the ideological bankruptcy of the Congress party keeps aiding the BJP’s poaching drive. Is Rajasthan next?
By selecting Sadhvi Pragya Thakur as its candidate, the BJP signalled that the development plank is past and only Hindutva will be its 2019 election weapon.
The Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Telangana and Rajasthan assembly election results are out and in all these states, the BJP appears to be a big loser in terms of the number of seats it has won. While the Congress secured a whopping majority by winning 68 out of 90 seats in the BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh, the … Read more
The selection of Kamal Nath by the Congress as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh is a burning instance of how the so-called ‘secular’ party cares about the victims of a communal pogrom. Kamal Nath is accused of instigating mob against Sikhs during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom in Delhi, organised jointly by the Congress and … Read more
The victory of the Congress Party by narrow margins in the Madhya Pradesh assembly election is seen by many as the fall of the Hindutva fascist empire in one of the big states of India lying in the cow-belt. However, a deep analysis into the Congress’ modus operandi in Madhya Pradesh, its ideological standpoint and … Read more
Since the time Narendra Modi won a landslide majority in the 16th Lok Sabha election and formed a government in May 2014, the common wailing of the parliamentary opposition was that secularism, as defined by the Indian Constitution, is under threat. Neither Narendra Modi nor the RSS-led Hindutva fascist camp disappointed the opponents and their … Read more
The brutal rape and attempt-to-murder of a minor girl in Mandsaur of Madhya Pradesh, infamous for last year’s brutal killing of farmers by the BJP government, has again raked up a communal binary over a heinous crime like rape. The two men accused of raping the minor in Mandsaur are Muslims; an identity that’s now … Read more
Several BJP-ruled states are witnessing a strong wave of farmers’ agitation against the anti-farmer policies of the Modi government. The 10-day-long farmers’ strike campaign from 1 to 10 June, called by the All India Kisan Mahasangh, an outfit of 130 farmers’ organisation that calls itself apolitical, is organised at village levels and is ensuring that … Read more
The farmers unrest in central and western India caused by the police firing on the agitating farmers of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh on 6 June, in which five agitating farmers were killed on the spot and one farmer succumbed later to baton charge wounds, has erected a serious challenge for the BJP government led by … Read more
Mainstream media owned by big corporations are notorious in India as they act as government’s propaganda machinery when it comes to spreading Islamophobia and by painting concocted tales of the state machinery as Gospel Truth; these media outlets help the rulers to shape the public opinion in its favour. As most of the subscribers of … Read more
When the conscience of the democratic and progressive masses of the country was shocked by the vitriol of Kundan Chandrawat, the RSS leader of Ujjain, who claimed that he will pay anyone with his ₹1 crore worth house and other properties if they can kill the Chief Minister of Kerala, Pinarayi Vijayan, and also ranted … Read more
(This article was first published in February 2016 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) Tragedy has entrenched the Modi government, quagmired in utmost crisis and attempting to do an image makeover before … Read more