Swati Chaturvedi
Journalist and author
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By Swati Chaturvedi
It will be part of the back-to-communal-basics tactic adopted by BJP president Amit Shah.
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On Diwali, the UP CM will sound the poll bugle from Ayodhya for the 2019 General Elections.
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Sick of the PM's bombastic style, people are finding the inarticulate Rahul Gandhi refreshing.
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Journalists ideally speak truth to power, poor Arnab Goswami can't even speak the truth.
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Despite fatal inadequacies of both UP and Haryana chief ministers, their purpose in BJP is to ensure PM’s ‘super man’ image stays intact.
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The Delhi CM has realised that he needs to walk the talk in the capital before his show can go national.
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The CM is currently doing a tightrope walk, with some help from the Congress.
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That in a single line is the institutional crisis that has gripped the foreign policy establishment.
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DSP Ayub Pandith was beaten to death by a crowd near Srinagar's Jamia mosque.
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By nominating Bihar governor Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proven he's not the bigger man.
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A fourth term for him in MP would make him too powerful; hence he will be brought to Delhi as part of the fairly powerless Union Cabinet.
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It's a chance for them to get the attention they desperately seek from paid troll hyena armies.
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The most telling thing is the circumspect silence maintained by leaders of note.
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Long-pending decisions are being made and leaders being moved for upcoming polls in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
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Caught in the middle of this mindless muscle-flexing are the Army and the people of the Valley.
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No other government in India's history has worn 'nationalism' so much on its sleeve.
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Why are the two men, along with the Centre, not being held to account?
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After refusing to campaign for the BJP in the UP elections, he has been completely marginalised.
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If urgent steps are not taken, the former CM said, we will be back to square one.
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If the elections are held on schedule, the CM would be in power for a mind-blogging 20 years.
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Makes you wonder at the BJP's commitment to hugely publicised schemes such as 'beti bachao, beti padhao'.
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Where does the much mentioned 'vikas' go? It will be reduced to another jumla like 'achhe din'.
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It can't get any worse.
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Unfortunately, a democracy is only as good as the quality of dissent it allows.
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The home minister may increase the volume of his dissent depending on UP poll results.
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The BJP is unstoppable when it is faced with the party in a direct contest.
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Despite the surging crowds mobilised via Amit Shah's hugely financed poll machine, PM Modi and his speeches evoke the maximum derision.
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BJP president is no longer the potent vote gatherer he was in 2014. Delhi and Bihar results are a proof.
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This has several implications for the Congress party.
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He jumps from cause to cause and then vanishes after a stray sound-bite.
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