Former CECs told The Wire it should be determined if the announcement could have waited and if it was aimed at benefiting the PM’s party. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech to annou... Read more

A BJP candidate in West Bengal has asked the central forces to shoot people in the chest if they tried to capture booths on the polling day, prompting the EC to seek a report A BJP candidate... Read more

Wrong candidate for wrong constituency has spoiled BJP’s poll calculations in Odisha Five years ago, the Modi ‘wave’ which swept large parts of the country was stopped in its tracks by a Nav... Read more

Lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan sits down with NH’s Ashlin Mathew for a freewheeling discussion on election 2019. He blames the Modi govt for dismantling and misusing the anti-corruption ar... Read more

RJD-Congress-CPI(ML) combine giving up seats to smaller allies may turn the tide in favour of the Mahagathbandhan In politics, two plus two does not always add up to four. It sometimes may a... Read more

Supporters of BJP leaders, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Rajya Sabha member RK Sinha, clashed outside the Patna airport on Tuesday after the party decided to field Prasad from the Patna Sahib LS s... Read more

In India, every Lok Sabha election has its own share of hotly contested ‘high-profile’ seats. While some nondescript constituencies hit the popular imagination because a ‘stalwart’ or a big... Read more

India’s reform-myopic and opportunistic politicians have an easy solution to end poverty and unemployment — simply throw taxpayers’ money at poor households and expect this to work wonders t... Read more