BJP suddenly changes party's chief ministerial candidate for the Delhi Assembly elections

India Today

The Bharatiya Janata Party has decided to project Dr Harshvardhan as the party's chief ministerial candidate for the Delhi Assembly elections. This decision comes after internal and external opinion polls showed the BJP on a sticky wicket in Delhi under the leadership of Vijay Goel.


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India: BJP's and Hindutva laden yoga guru Ramdev 2014 election campaign connection

photo of Ramdev's yoga camps in Delhi ad in The Hindu of 8 Oct 2013. Are these camps in part to draw people towards BJP ?

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Firstpost

EC allows Ramdev yoga camp in Delhi with riders

by Oct 10, 2013

New Delhi: The Election Commission has given its nod for a yoga camp to be conducted by Ramdev in the national capital from

An Afghan Church in Delhi - NYT story on Afghan refugees

[July 22, 2013, ] The New York Times, Neyaz Farooquee reports on Christian Afghans seeking refuge in Delhi from the strict Islamic law in their homeland. Converts to Christianity, who can be charged with apostasy and possibly executed for abandoning Islam in Afghanistan, regularly flee to India but still face persecution. Despite the hostility, Pastor Obaid Jan of the Afghan Church of New Delhi

India - Delhi: ‘Ramlila being used for political activities’

The Hindu, NEW DELHI, October 8, 2013
‘Ramlila being used for political activities’

Staff Reporter

In place of the customary joy, the festival season this year has brought with it trouble for residents of a particular block in North East Delhi’s Mansarovar Park who allege that a Ramlila Committee is using the festival for political activities and is also flouting the norms laid down by the

Photos - Aman Ekta Manch public discussion 'Communal Violence Emerging Trends' (Jamia, sociology dept. - 1 Oct 2013)

The Aman Ekta Manch arranged talks and a discussion on the Muzaffarnagar violence at the Department of Sociology, Jamia Millia Islamia [in Delhi], on 1 October 2013. All the photos below were taken by Mukul Dube




See also a report on the meeting:
Dept. of Sociology Organizes a Lecture and Discussion on Muzaffarnagar Riots
http://jamiajournal.com/2013/10/04/

Artistes Against Fascism: Music Dance and Poetry September 29, 2013 - 11am to 4pm (Jantar Mantar, Delhi)

Artistes under the banner pf Artistes Against Fascism from Delhi have decided to respond, to the screeching and jingoistic monologue projected manifolds by the corporate media, through their music, dance, poetry- the language of love and sanity. Let Us Celebrate Diversity.

JOIN US to say : WE OPPOSE COMMUNAL FASCIST FORCES
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India: Fleeing Muzaffarnagar riots, over 500 families seek refuge at Delhi's doorstep

From: The Times of India

Fleeing riots, over 500 families seek refuge at Delhi's doorstep
Maria Akram, TNN | Sep 13, 2013, 06.03 AM IST

LONI (GHAZIABAD): When she is playing, Parveen forgets her plight and the terror from which her family of six escaped on Sunday night. While fleeing the riot-affected Nala village in Muzaffarnagar district, the 10-year-old and her sister Muskaan (4) were