Death of 30 children within 48 hours in BRD Hospital, the largest state-run hospital in Gorakhpur, can be called nothing less than a systematic murder because the BRD Hospital administration and the Health Department of the Uttar Pradesh government deliberately showed a lacklustre attitude in paying back the dues to the oxygen supplier, who withdrew … Read more
The Bhim Sena was called a “Naxalite outfit” and anti-national force by the BJP government and its ally, the yellow press, soon after it started leading the Dalits of Shabbirpur village of Western Uttar Pradesh’s Saharanpur district against the violence and rampage of the upper-caste Thakur men and the Brahminical Uttar Pradesh administration. The Bhim … Read more
The Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath has waived off the farm loans in the state and the news has become a headline that all mainstream corporate media houses kept recycling to project the man, their corporate owners funded, as a messiah for the poor and the would-be Narendra Modi, aka Vikas Purush (development … Read more
The ascension of a Hindutva Gadfly like Yogi Adityanath to the helm of India’s largest and communally most volatile state – Uttar Pradesh, is not another quotidian affair. It’s a part of a very cunningly engineered scheme that the RSS controlled Modi government is trying to implement throughout the nation – the grand plan of … Read more
Corporate mainstream media and the political pundits on their payrolls are offering many explanations for the massive victory of the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. From blowing the klaxon of Vikas, i.e. development, the cliché used by the BJP since the 2014 general elections to dupe the people, to blaming the concrete manifestation … Read more
The most awaited assembly elections results are out and there is a big tide of happiness in the Hindutva camp led by the RSS, which helped the BJP to sweep the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2017. The victory of the BJP in the two states, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, is shown as a sign of … 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
The Election Commission decided to make the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections a multi-phased polling exercise to curb the poll related violence and maintain law and order in the state. Uttar Pradesh is prioritised by the EC due to its immense political value to the key players of Indian polity. However, despite all these measures the … Read more
The RSS is seeing a clear danger in the voting pattern in the Uttar Pradesh elections and hence it’s pressing into service its most trusted bigots to incite communal tension in different regions of the largest state of India and to scare the majority Hindu community, especially the Dalits and backward castes and win them … Read more
The Supreme Court ordered the political players to desist from playing religious or casteist cards during the elections a few weeks back. The aim of the order, according to various critical analysts is to place a barrier on the path of developing a caste and communal unity among the downtrodden and marginal communities, however, many … Read more
If a naïve person goes by the narratives of the mainstream corporate media of India, they will certainly believe in the cliché that the outcome of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections will have a severe repercussion on the BJP government at the centre and even more, it will create a roadblock for the BJP to … Read more
During an election rally in Shahjahanpur of Western Uttar Pradesh, RSS strong man and BJP stalwart Amit Shah fired sexist salvo against the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for their strong opposition to Narendra Modi’s demonetisation exercise. Shah said during his speech -”Have you seen the … Read more
When was the last time that the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections became national news three years before the curtain raiser? The 2017 assembly elections in north India’s largest state and one of the most populous states of India became a bird’s eye in national politics for all major players since 2014 when the BJP swept the … Read more
(This article was first published in June 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) As the election season in Uttar Pradesh sets in, it is high time for the Hindutva brigade led … Read more
The far-right Hindu extremist group RSS and its mass organisation – the BJP is trying to fish in the murky waters of communally volatile Western Uttar Pradesh during the assembly bypolls for the Muzaffarnagar and Deoband constituencies, vacated due to the death of the MLAs. Rampal Singh Pundhir, a RSS Pracharak, is the candidate for … Read more
(This article was first published in September 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) A mob incited by the local temple head and saffron extremists at Bisada village, Dadri district of Uttar … Read more
(This article was first published in June 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 criminalisation of politics in Uttar Pradesh had been a pioneering inspiration for Indian politics, with the … Read more