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Stop Modi’s Communal Electioneering

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE election campaign of the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is resorting to open appeals based on religion. It has made the Ram temple an election issue and dubbed some of the opposition parties as being against the temple and Lord Ram.

Protect Democracy: Scrap PMLA, Defang ED

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE election manifesto of the CPI(M) for the Lok Sabha elections has raised an important issue which has a vital bearing on India’s democracy and the fundamental rights of citizens. This concerns the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and how it operates under the jurisdiction of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).The manifesto states “Replace PMLA with suitable law to prevent misuse.

Hindutva-Corporate Nexus Revealed

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE details of the electoral bonds scheme released so far have strikingly confirmed the existence of the communal-corporate, or more specifically, the Hindutva-corporate nexus in the country. As per the data available, the BJP has been the prime beneficiary of the bonds scheme getting Rs 8,252 crores since the inception of the bonds in 2018.  This amounts to 50 per cent of the total amount redeemed through bonds.  This was a cosy arrang

Election-Eve Manoeuvres

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHREE developments have taken place in the last week, on the eve of the Lok Sabha elections – one is positive and the other two are negative. The first issue is the Supreme Court’s order directing the State Bank of India to submit to the Election Commission by March 12 the details of electoral bonds and asking the Election Commission to put it up on their website by March 15.  This order comes in the wake of SBI’s appeal for a time of f

Drive for One-Party Rule Targets Opposition

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE BJP has launched a full-fledged drive to organise defections from the Congress and some other opposition parties.  After getting Nitish Kumar’s JD(U) and Jayant Chaudhary’s RLD to defect to the BJP, there has been a spate of defections of individual leaders, MLAs and former legislators of the Congress in different states.In the past one month alone, there was the declaration by two Congress MLAs in Assam of supporting the BJP govern

Hypocritical Stance over Gaza War

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE United States has vetoed yet another resolution in the United Nations Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire on February 20, 2024.  This is the third time that the United States has vetoed resolutions in the Security Council calling for a ceasefire – the first being in October and the second in December 2023.The latest veto comes at a time when Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has led to the deaths of over 29,500 Palestin

A Hindutva-Based Population Policy

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in her interim budget speech announced the setting up of a high-powered committee “to study the challenges of fast population growth and demographic changes”.  The announcement of such a committee in a budget speech was itself a curious one.  If the government intended to frame a new population policy based on a committee to study population growth, it should have found a mention in the presiden

Kerala Fights for Its Rights

Enable GingerCannot connect to Ginger Check your internet connectionor reload the browserDisable in this text fieldRephraseRephrase current sentenceTHE Kerala chief minister, Pinarayi Vijayan, the entire cabinet and all the MLAs and MPs of the Left Democratic Front sat in protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on February 8.  The sit-in was to highlight the central government’s discriminatory attitude to Kerala and the hostile actions of the centre to financially strangulate the state government.  On the same day, big demonstrations were held over Kerala supporting the Delhi action.

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