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Millions vote amid heatwave alert in Phase 6 of India’s staggered election

Many people lined polling stations before the start of voting at 7am to avoid blazing sun at peak of summer.

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Millions head to polls in penultimate round of India's grueling election

Millions of Indians are voting Saturday in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election with a combined opposition trying to rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for a third-consecutive term for himself and his Hindu nationalist party.

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Hafta 486: Maharashtra and Delhi polls, Pune’s Porsche car crash

This week, Newslaundry’s Abhinandan Sekhri, Raman Kirpal, Jayashree Arunachalam and Prateek Goyal are joined by journalist Faye D’Souza.

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Hafta letters: Election commission, legacy media and VVPAT

My question is related to Hafta #469. On the organised nature of Ram mandir decor in public spaces, Shardool brushed it off, claiming that I don’t “understand” India. I thought his answer had more to do with his own mandir-time-tribulations than the uniformity of the decor, and Raman sir did…

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AAP's Atishi casts her vote in Delhi, alleges voting could be slowed down in INDIA bloc strongholds

AAP leader Atishi on Saturday cast her vote in the sixth phase of the general elections and alleged that the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi VK Saxena. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Modi's Struggling Rivals To Vote As India Election Resumes

India's six-week election resumes Saturday, with top rivals of Prime Minister Narendra Modi due to vote in the capital New Delhi after accusing him of unjustly targeting them with criminal probes.

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Door-to-door campaign, booth cadre, apps: BJP vs INDIA bloc in Chandni Chowk

In the lead up to the high stakes political battle across seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi on May 25, workers of both the INDIA alliance and the BJP are on the ground to mobilise support for their leaders through public meetings and campaigns. The BJP is contesting all seven…

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‘Can’t bury myself 10 ft under’: Prashant Kishor on his political ‘advice’ to an NDA ally

Many see Prashant Kishor as not an ordinary political analyst. As cofounder of IPAC – a political consultancy he claims to not be involved with anymore – he has earlier worked on campaigns and parties across the spectrum, from Narendra Modi’s BJP to Mamata Banerjee’s TMC.

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From refugee to tech success story: Afghan entrepreneur creates innovative learning platform

As more and more countries around the world seek to close their borders to asylum seekers, we speak to the founder of an online language platform designed for refugees. She tells us how she hopes Chatterbox will redress the demeaning manner in which she feels refugees from around the world…

France 24

Know Your Turncoats, Part 18: Coalgate accused, ‘anti-national’ ex-activist, former couple turned rivals

Read previous stories in this series here.

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‘Difficult to carry on’: Heatwave in Delhi but party workers spend long hours in the sun

On May 20, five days before polling day in Delhi, the Congress party’s Chandni Chowk president, Rahul Dabla, was rushed to a hospital.

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India Lok Sabha election 2024 Phase 6: Who votes and what’s at stake?

Voters from eight states and union territories will cast their ballots to elect 58 MPs in the sixth phase of polling.

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Lok Sabha 2024: Will wrestlers’ protest impact elections in Haryana?

Among the poll narratives in Haryana, ahead of voting across its 10 Lok Sabha seats on May 25, the protest by India’s top women wrestlers against alleged sexual assault by former wrestling federation chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has purportedly taken centre stage.

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India's Hindu nationalists confident of victory as elections enter final stages

Even before India’s six-week general election has run its course, Hindu nationalists are confident the polls will result in a rare third term in office for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader Narendra Modi. But the opposition says the incumbents will face stiff competition in the final…

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The battle for Delhi: Will Modi’s BJP pass bellwether Indian election test?

The BJP has won Delhi in all but two national elections since 1989. This time, its two biggest rivals have teamed up.

The Conversation

How Narendra Modi’s cult of personality was formed by a powerful Hindu nationalist group with a dark history

Narendra Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has resorted to religious polarisation as it tries to rally its Hindu nationalist base in India’s ongoing general election, which ends on June 1.

The Conversation

How Modi is using TV, film and social media to sway voters in India’s election

As the world’s largest electorate goes to the polls in India, political parties are seeking to sway voters through popular culture, like film. Although cinema has long reflected and influenced the country’s political and social cultures, right now, Bollywood (and other Indian films) are a major boon to the current…

Newslaundry

What are Delhi students’ big woes? Saffronisation, Kejriwal’s arrest, jobs or high fees

From high-profile rallies to the hot seats being contested by Congress’s Kanhaiya Kumar and BJP’s Bansuri Swaraj and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s return to the election campaign after getting interim bail in the alleged liquor scam case – the national capital is bustling with political activities ahead of voting…

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‘If Congress is over, why is Modi chanting its name?’: Kanhaiya Kumar on BJP, INDIA bloc, JNU

Congress’s Kanhaiya Kumar is the INDIA bloc candidate from North-East Delhi against BJP incumbent MP Manoj Tiwari. The former JNU student leader – who faced a defeat at the hands of BJP’s Giriraj Singh in Bihar’s Begusarai in the 2019 polls – is running a high-pitched campaign this time.

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Kejriwal’s street meetings: Hanuman, Ambedkar and emotional appeal to women voters

In the battleground for Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party is contesting four seats and the Congress three from the INDIA bloc against the BJP, which swept all seven seats in the national capital in the 2019 general election.

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‘Fight is against Suvendu’: TMC’s ‘Khela Hobe’ fame Debangshu Bhattacharya on electoral debut, BJP

Debangshu Bhattacharya, 27, who gained popularity for writing the song Khela Hobe during the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, is making his electoral debut as the Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha candidate from Tamluk. The young politician is in the fray against Abhijit Ganguly, the BJP candidate and controversial former Calcutta…

Dynamite News

Delhi Police not to record statement of Kejriwal's parents today in Maliwal assault case

Delhi Police will not record the statement of the parents of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal today in connection with the party's Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal's assault case. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Rohtak BJP MP fled his campaign amid grilling by woman farm leader. What were her questions?

In Haryana, leaders of the BJP and its ally Jannayak Janta Party have been increasingly facing opposition in villages and rural areas over the central government’s policies. The BJP’s sitting MP and candidate from Rohtak, Arvind Sharma, was also witness to people’s rage amid his campaign at Sisrauli village last…

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Delhi 2024: Will Congress’s Kanhaiya defeat ‘Rambhakt’ Manoj Tiwari?

The roads and bylanes of North-East Delhi have transformed into election campaign sites with a high-pitch battle unravelling between INDIA bloc candidate and Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar and BJP’s two-time sitting MP Manoj Tiwari.

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Ties, turnout and truths: What intellectual centres in the West say about 2024 polls

Modi’s temple of lies. India a democracy in name only. Progressive South is rejecting Modi. Modification of India is almost complete. Authoritarian drift in the world’s largest democracy. Why is Biden silent on Modi and India’s slide towards autocracy?

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