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‘Overconfidence killed BJP’: Political analyst Sanjay Kumar on Modi, Hindutva, polls

The Lok Sabha poll results stunned most spectators, with the BJP falling short of the majority mark despite its clarion call for over 400 seats. So what went wrong? How did the INDIA bloc parties engineer their revival?    

Newslaundry · Jun 9, 2024

India: why Hindu nationalism and Zionism are ideological cousins

The results are in for India’s general election. The country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, has won enough seats to stay in charge for a third consecutive term. But his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has suffered big setbacks, and is gearing up for coalition talks having failed to win an outright…

The Conversation · Jun 5, 2024

BJP’s Hindutva pull diluted by grievances in Gorakhpur

For over three decades, the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat has been a BJP bastion, with its Hindutva pull centred around the Gorakhnath Math.

The Hindu · May 17, 2024

‘Tribals hold their pain within’: Hindutva, rumblings of discontent in Birsa Munda’s land

Jharkhand’s Khunti, the birthplace of revolutionary Birsa Munda, is again seeing a tough contest between Union minister and incumbent MP Arjun Munda and Congress’s Kalicharan Munda, who had lost with a thin margin in 2019.

Newslaundry · May 9, 2024

Tension prevails in Bagalkot as Hindutva organisations stage protest against police

Tension in Bagalkot as Hindutva activists protest police support for Hindu-Muslim marriage, leading to injuries and arrests.

The Hindu · May 8, 2024

Polling ends in Karnataka; month-long, nail-biting wait begins

As the curtains came down on the hard-fought and high-pitched Lok Sabha elections amid the sweltering heat in Karnataka on Tuesday, it will be nearly a month-long tense wait for the electoral fortunes to be known. The counting of votes across the country will take place on June 4. Amid…

The Hindu · May 7, 2024

Two descendants of Chhatrapati Shivaji gear up for electoral battle in third phase in western Maharashtra

Descendants of Maratha warrior king Shivaji, Shahu Chhatrapati and Udayanraje Bhosale, contest Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra.

The Hindu · May 4, 2024

Modi Report Card, Ep 3: The rise in hate speech

From conspiracy theories like ‘love jihad’ to direct calls for attacks against minorities, the 10 years of the Narendra Modi government have witnessed the Hindutva hate speech factory working overtime. This has also seen a rise in VIP hate speech amid accusations that the Indian state hasn’t done enough to…

Newslaundry · May 3, 2024

‘Vote jihad’: As Modi raises anti-Muslim India election pitch, what’s next?

As the campaign targeting of Muslims becomes more direct and shrill, experts fear Modi’s words could encourage violence.

Al Jazeera · May 3, 2024

In the BJP’s scheme of things, good politics is good economics

Liberal commentators critique PM Modi's politics vs. economics, Hindutva ideology sees cultural nationalism as key to prosperity.

The Hindu · May 2, 2024