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There are Signs of Hope in the Fight against Saffron Violence in Uttarakhand

Vol. 53, Issue No. 13, 31 Mar, 2018
After the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the 2017 elections in Uttarakhand, there was a spike in efforts by various groups to stoke violence. At the same time, there was also a resistance to these efforts and it now seems that the resistance may be having some degree of success.

Uttar Pradesh Elections 2017

Vol. 52, Issue No. 15, 15 Apr, 2017
Adnan Farooqui, E Sridharan

This article examines the electoral alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress in the recently held Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in the context of India’s complex polity at the national and state levels.

BJP Snatches Victory from Defeat in Manipur

Vol. 52, Issue No. 12, 25 Mar, 2017
Pradip Phanjoubam

Even if it has scored convincingly in the short run, there is no guarantee that the new government’s problems are over. It will have to keep its own members of legislative assembly happy when a majority of the cabinet ministers are from the smaller parties that are supporting it.

Evaluation of SAD–BJP Government (2007–17)

Vol. 52, Issue No. 3, 21 Jan, 2017
Jagrup Singh Sekhon, Sunayana Sharma

Regarding the performance of the Shiromani Akali Dal–Bharatiya Janata Party alliance government since February 2007, available trends suggest that there exists a gap between the claims made by the government and the actual work done. The perceptions of the people, based on empirical evidence and ground-level reality, suggest tough times ahead for the ruling alliance.

The Demand for Division of Uttar Pradesh and Its Implications

Vol. 51, Issue No. 53, 31 Dec, 2016
Ajit Kumar Singh

Significant interregional development disparities plaguing Uttar Pradesh today are often attributed to its large and unwieldy size. There is a strong prima facie case for the division of the state into smaller units to improve governance and development. But the demand for the state’s division, raised from time to time by all major parties except the Samajwadi Party, has presently receded into the background in the absence of mass support for it from any region. In the political discourse surrounding the 2017 UP assembly elections, it appears unlikely that restructuring of the state into manageable units will emerge as a significant issue.

Facts and Fiction about How Muslims Vote in India

Vol. 51, Issue No. 53, 31 Dec, 2016
Rahul Verma, Pranav Gupta

There is a widely held belief that Muslims in India vote en bloc and strategically to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party. This misconception has given rise to several wild theories about how Muslims participate in electoral arena—that they vote in large numbers, their decision of whom to vote for is influenced by clerics, they are more concerned about religious issues while voting, and are less supportive of India’s political institutions. This article presents a body of evidence using public opinion and election returns data from Uttar Pradesh to show that the political and electoral behaviour of Muslims is no different from that of any other major community in the state.

RSS, BJP and Communal Polarisation in Uttar Pradesh Polls

Vol. 51, Issue No. 53, 31 Dec, 2016
Radhika Ramaseshan

Ahead of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its allied organisations are making concerted efforts to achieve better coordination on the ground to consolidate the Hindu votes and crack the complex caste arithmetic of the state. With the Hindutva card unlikely to cut much ice with the backward castes and Dalits, it is crucial for the BJP, to calibrate its campaign strategy to offer these less empowered communities more political representation to reap electoral dividends in the impending polls.

Third Democratic Upsurge in Uttar Pradesh

Vol. 51, Issue No. 53, 31 Dec, 2016
A K Verma

The upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh point to an electoral battle between the incumbent Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party, which swept the state in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. With a decline of identity politics in the state, the major political parties are trying to outdo each other in engineering alliances, reaching out to hitherto neglected, marginalised groups, under the garb of inclusive politics. Sensing an opportunity, these backward groups are turning away from their identity-based political anchors and being drawn towards parties that promise political and economic empowerment, signalling the beginning of the “third democratic upsurge” in UP.

Uttar Pradesh: Impact of Identity Politics

Vol. 51, Issue No. 50, 10 Dec, 2016
Bhavdeep Kang

Just ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in early 2017, this is an analysis of the identity politics that is scripting a new political paradigm in the state, undermining the focus of political parties on ideology and social justice, and transforming the Samajwadi Party, which once stood for secularism and inclusion, into a caste-based, criminalised organisation.

Political Intolerance in Bengal

Vol. 51, Issue No. 2, 09 Jan, 2016
Debatra K Dey

Political intolerance is a bigger problem than religious intolerance in West Bengal. How will this affect the 2016 Assembly elections in West Bengal?

Uttar Pradesh, circa 2017

Vol. 51, Issue No. 53, 31 Dec, 2016
Ravi Srivastava

On 21 November 2016, Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and father of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, inaugurated the 326 kilometre (km) Agra–Lucknow Expressway, completed in a record time of 22 months.

BJP's Defeat in Assembly Elections

Vol. 37, Issue No. 10, 09 Mar, 2002
Asghar Ali Engineer

The BJP's defeat in the four state assembly elections signified the voters' lack of enthusiasm towards emotive issues of temple and mosque. Instead, it was a decisive pointer of their anxiety on basic issues of development, poverty and unemployment. The elections thus showed that a democracy cannot be run by communalising the polity.

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