The Noise Over National Security Risk in Aftermath of Muzaffarnagar Riots & Competitive Communalism During Election Campaigns | Editorial - The Hindu

The Hindu, October 28, 2013

Editorial:

Regrettable and irresponsible

The manner in which leaders of the principal political parties have traded allegations in the last few days over the tragedy of the Muzaffarnagar communal clashes reflects an increasing trend of competitive irresponsibility. This latest round started with the Congress vice-president, Rahul Gandhi’s reckless comments that some

RSS's 'wake up voters' campaign | report in Business Standard

Business Standard,
Sanjay Jog | Mumbai
October 13, 2013

RSS steps up 'wake up voters' campaign across India

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is slowly but steadily reaching out to the cross sections across the country through its parivar emphasising the need to elect their representatives by performing mandatory democratic duty.

Top to grass root level leaders and pracharaks have already

Indian Express report on Amit Shah: Narendra Modi's right-hand man on his campaign effort for BJP in Uttar Pradesh

Indian Express
Amit Shah: Narendra Modi's right-hand man

Ravish Tiwari : Sun Oct 13 2013

The road to Delhi goes through Uttar Pradesh. This election though, it also stops at Gujarat, as is evident from both the Congress and the BJP choosing party leaders from the state to steer their campaigns. If Madhusudan Mistry is doing the job for the Congress, it's the choice of the other camp that

India: religious platforms cannot be used to induce voters | Aam Aadmi Party supporters at a Durga Puja

From: Indian ExpressEC on lookout, Ramlila & Puja samitis keep politicians away


D K RITURAJ : New Delhi, Sun Oct 13 2013, 01:49 hrs 















Aam
Aadmi Party supporters at a Durga Puja pandal in CR Park.
RAVI KANOJIA


The Election Commission's code of conduct came into effect on October 4,
and has diluted the

India: The BJP sharpens its 2014 UP campaign plan with weapons that cleave | Prarthna Gahilote in outlook

outlook magazine,

Magazine | Oct 21, 2013


APVHP workers at its chaurasi kos yatra in Ayodhya
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This Way To Oudh
The BJP sharpens its 2014 UP campaign plan with weapons that cleave
Prarthna Gahilote

Four full years after he last set foot in Uttar Pradesh, Narendra Modi arrives in dusty Kanpur on October 19 to kickstart the the BJP’s 2014 poll campaign for the state. He won’t

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 ?

see reports in the media to allow you to see some background matter

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

Comment on the 2014 Election Campaign in India | Papri Sri Raman

From: truthout.org

Emerging Party in 2014 Election in India Led by Militant "Orator"

24 September 2013 13:55 By Papri Sri Raman, Truthout | Op-Ed

India, like the United States, is one of the largest democracies in the world - and also home to 1.23 billion people. By April 2014, the country will elect a lower House of Parliament for the 16th time. These elections are being described by the

Random Pick: A photo of some bombay film stars who campaigned for BJP in the past

Photo of the Bombay films stars Vinod Khanna and Salman Khan campaigning for BJP. No date on the photo from AP

RSS / BJP communal polarisation as the mainstay of their 2014 general election campaign | Editorial, PD Oct 6, 2013

People's Democracy, October 06, 2013

Editorial

BJP Seeks to Sharpen: Communal Polarisation

FINALLY, after many years, the union home minister has responded to the demand made by many secular forces in the country to undo the wrong of detaining innocent Muslim youth in connection with terror cases thereby depriving them of their fundamental right, enshrined in our constitution, to life and

India: RSS top brass are trying to engineer a new brand image for the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi (M K Venu)

The Hindu, September 27, 2013

A new chemistry experiment

M. K. Venu

PTI The Muzaffarnagar communal violence is seen as benefiting the BJP because the Jat community is said to be preparing to ‘give Modi a chance.’

The RSS and the BJP are trying to package prime ministerial aspirant Narendra Modi as a development-oriented backward class leader in the crucial Hindi heartland, heightening

India: Fancy dress politics at Modi's Rally in Jaipur - skull caps and burqas special

BJP asking Muslims to come dressed in skull caps and burqassource url 1

sources in the BJP revealed that the party had bought 5,000 skull caps and burqas each two days before the event to be distributed to Muslims attending the rally. [. . .]
"Hours before the event, free skull caps and burqas were distributed among Muslims. We were allowed to take them home too. Both my wife and I have got one

India: BJP mulls Modi rally in riot hit Muzaffarnagar or this propaganda

Hindustan Times

BJP mulls Modi rally in Muzaffarnagar
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times Lucknow, September 10, 2013
First Published: 11:16 IST(10/9/2013) | Last Updated: 11:30 IST(10/9/2013)

Despite four of its legislators, including its party leader in UP assembly Hukum Singh, being booked for allegedly fanning communal violence in Muzaffarnagar, the Bharatiya Janata Party strategists aren’t

India: Right Wing BJP's ideological mentor — the RSS conclave to plot the 2014 election strategy

NEW DELHI, September 9, 2013

RSS looks to ramp up support from parivar ahead of election battle

B. Muralidhar Reddy

BJP expected to name Modi as its PM candidate sooner or later

Amid signs that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would pick Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi as its Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha election sooner or later, the top brass of the Rashtriya