India: BJP’s minority fear over Modi dissipates

The Telegraph, 13 Dec 2013

BJP’s minority fear over Modi dissipates
RADHIKA RAMASESHAN

New Delhi, Dec. 12: The BJP believes this week’s Assembly poll results have dismissed its worst fears over consolidation of minority votes around the Congress because of Narendra Modi’s projection as prime ministerial candidate.

The BJP is now mulling adopting the Gujarat model of giving Muslims more tickets

India: [Fake article attributed to] Shanti Bhushan says Aam Admi Party might spoil the party for BJP in 2014 elections, But most Aam Adami voters in Delhi seem pro Modi

Daily apologizes to Shanti Bhushan for article gaffe
PTI | Dec 13, 2013, 07.48 PM IST

Daily apologizes to Shanti Bhushan for article gaffe
'Mail Today' carried an article in the name of Shanti Bhushan which was critical of Aam Admi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal.
NEW DELHI: In a bizarre gaffe, a newspaper here published an article on Friday purported to have been written by former Union law

Will the BJP make it 2014 elections ?

Indian Express, 13 December 2013

Many a slip

by Suhas Palshikar

Electoral victories in four states may not add up to a BJP wave in 2014.

One unavoidable dimension to the analysis of the recently held assembly elections has been their relevance to the Lok Sabha election in 2014. For this reason, if for nothing else, the BJP could read into these outcomes the possibility of a better electoral

India: Modi, Media and Money | Sandeep Bhushan

http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/nation/modi-media-and-money
Open Magazine, 16 November 2013

Modi, Media and Money
The interplay of these three ‘M’s is doing Indian democracy a gross disfavour
BY Sandeep Bhushan

SPIN
MEDIA HALO Modi arrives for a National Media Workshop organised by the BJP on 17 August in Delhi (Photo: RAUL IRANI)

Is news television all about TRPs? Or is it an agenda of

Will Fanatical Violence Shape The Elections?

Kashmir Times

Will Fanatical Violence Shape The Elections?: Patna blasts & poll 'semi-finals'
By Praful Bidwai

The October 27 bomb blasts in Patna, timed to precede BJP Prime-Ministerial nominee Narendra Modi's much tom-tommed rally, mark a new, murky and dangerous turn in Indian politics. If the turn persists, we will probably see extremely bloody Assembly elections in five states over the

India: Use of Religion in Politics - Aam Admi Party candidate in Delhi is straight out of a TV soap on the Hindu Epic Mahabharata

Mahabharat's 'Bheem' Praveen Sobti is AAP candidate from Wazirpur

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/mahabharats-bheem-praveen-sobti-to-contest-from-wazirpur-as-aap-candidate/1/322427.html

India: The maths of 2014 | Bharat Bhushan

Asian Age, November 6, 2013

by Bharat Bhushan

“Today’s India is not falling apart — it does not need a Sardar Patel to keep it together by force. It needs a conciliator who is accommodative, inclusive and willing to share power with the periphery.”

There can be little doubt that the timing of the 14-party anti-communalism convention in the capital last week had much to do with the rising

Kashmir court seeks action against those who invoke religious nationalism while campaiging for elections

The Hindu, Srinagar, October 11, 2013

HC frowns at religious nationalism

PTI

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has directed the Centre and Chief Election Commissioner to act against politicians who seek people’s mandate in elections by invoking religious nationalism, to prevent them from subverting the Constitution of the country.

“In our constitutional philosophy, there is only one ‘ism that

Muzaffarnagar - A case of ’Institutionalised Riot Systems’ | Ajoy Ashirwad Mahaprashasta

If one goes through majority of the mainstream media reports on the Muzaffarnagar riots, which displaced nearly 40000 Muslims and killed at least 50, the most important discourse that emerges is one of ‘administrative failure.’ Most reports rallied behind the notion that the riots could have been prevented if not for the state government’s laxity and delay in deploying troops in and around the

India: Sadiq Naqvi's report on communal violence mass displacement in Muzaffarnagar

What is their Crime?

Meticulously planned and diabolically organised since a long time this year, the communal violence, killings, destruction and mass displacement in Muzaffarnagar and its neighbourhood villages clearly point to a sinister design to electorally polarize UP

Sadiq Naqvi Muzaffarnagar
- See more at: http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2013/10/6069

India: Report in Financial Times on Muzaffarnagar Violence and fears of turmoil ahead of India election

Financial Times, September 22, 2013 6:22 pm
Communal violence raises fears of turmoil ahead of India election

By Amy Kazmin in Muzaffarnagar, India

Pro-Telangana state Osmania University students (R) fall back as a policeman takes aim with a tear gas round during a protest against the 'Save Andhra Pradesh' meeting in Hyderabad on September 7, 2013. Andhra Pradesh Non-Gazetted Officers (APNGO)

India: Gujarat 2002 vs Delhi 1984 - Which genocide should we vote against?

The Times of India

Gujarat 2002 vs Delhi 1984: Which genocide should we vote against?
Anahita Mukherji
14 September 2013, 04:57 PM IST


The two most widely reported news stories on Friday the 13th, 2013, have a lesson in store for the country. The men who raped and brutalised a young girl in a moving bus in Delhi last year have been awarded the death sentence. The man who oversaw one of

India: 'worsening of economic crisis will improve the chances for Modi BJP's prime ministerial candidate' - says banker and market analyst with Credit Lyonnais

Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia (CLSA) is a renowned investment and brokerage firm. Its Chief Equity Strategist, Chris Wood, told the Economic Times: The best hope for the Indian stock markets would be a worsening of the country's economic crisis, he argued. Why? Because that will improve the chances of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi emerging as BJP's prime ministerial candidate, according

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