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Blog: Bullet Meri Jaan? Not Really, Not Anymore
As a child, it was great fun to see my mamas and chachas in Ayodhya ride the 'Bullat' (called Bullt in Delhi) and go on and on about it. They would even hum the iconic 'ye bullet meri jaan manzilo ka nishan' song.
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Blog: Cancel Culture Infects Gujarat Election
Many commentators have written off the Gujarat elections as "predictable". Some say the municipal corporation polls in Delhi are offering much more bang for the buck. The Gujarat campaign has caught up with a global trend. The Cancel Culture.
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Blog: Star-Studded Campaign In Gujarat's Diamond City
Surat, the diamond city in the south of Gujarat, votes on December 1. For any party in Gujarat, winning Surat is important. Multiple factors are at play in this city and the results are often surprising.
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Opinion: PM's Strategy In Gujarat - Avoid Any Reference To AAP
As part of the NDTV's election yatra in Gujarat, we have been travelling to various parts of the state. One of our halts was at the crucial south Gujarat city of Surat.
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Blog: Rural UP's Biggest Election Issue - The Mighty Bull
Our assessment, based on our travels in the rural pockets of Rampur, Etawah, Mainpuri, Shahjahanpur, Bareilly and Kanpur Dehat, is that one issue remains a constant - the Bull.
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Blog: The Legend Of Kasganj And Who Wins UP
Kasganj, a small town in West-Central Uttar Pradesh, has a unique history. The party that wins Kasganj takes power in Lucknow. Barring aberrations, this has been the tradition for four decades. The town votes in Phase 3 of the UP election on Sunday.
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Blog: In UP's Polarisation Laboratory, Decoding A Lower Voter Turnout
Despite an increase in the number of voters, the polling percentage in the 58 seats was around 60 percent, down 2 percent in comparison to 2017.
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Blog: Dangerous For Akhilesh Yadav To Assume This About Muslims
Muslims seem to welcome farm leader Rakesh Tikait's assertion that west UP will not fall for a Hindu-Muslim trap. At the same time, they doubt his credentials, given his history of openly supporting the BJP earlier.
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Blog: Akhilesh Yadav's Jinnah Remark - Bad Call Or Concerted Move?
At an event in Hardoi in Central Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, an upbeat Akhilesh Yadav who has embarked on a rath yatra for the forthcoming elections, went on and on about the great contributions of "The Iron Man of India" - Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
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Blog: Mayawati's Big Gameplan For The UP Election
Mayawati has a tradition of keeping her strategy classified. So the only reason given by her top aides for the party sitting out crucial elections this week is that participating would distract from the preps for the big state election next year.
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Blog: In UP, BJP = Yogi Adityanath. The Party Takes A Tough Call
Despite senior leaders in Uttar Pradesh conveying their dissatisfaction with Yogi Adityanath to the BJP's decision-makers, the party is clear that the next state election will be contested without any change to his status.
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Blog: Nandigram Will Destroy One Career On May 2
Suvendu Adhikari, 50, has to prove his worth to his new political matters. Whether he can deliver the goods. Can he hold together his reputation of being the real 'Trinamool' - the Bengali word for grassroot?
