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Badri Narayan

Badri Narayan

Articles by Badri Narayan

In UP, the invocation of Dalit icons before polls

It is also important to recognise that alongside identity consciousness, a deep-rooted sense of beneficiary consciousness has also emerged among Dalit and marginal communities in recent times. (HT Archive)

Updated on May 25, 2026 15:17 IST

In Bihar, voters are not fixated on caste alone

Even as caste is fully present, it is clearly caste-plus that is driving political mobilisation in Bihar. (HT Archive)

Updated on Oct 28, 2025 15:04 IST

How caste census is set to change narratives in Indian politics

A potent combination of Hindutva, an aggressive anti-Pakistan centric nationalism, the promise of Viksit Bharat is likely to help the party overcome the caste fault line in Hindu society that anti-BJP social justice groups have historically used for electoral mobilisation (HT Photo)

Updated on May 1, 2025 14:57 IST

What clicked for JMM in Jharkhand?

As far as spinning welfare schemes as vote magnets is concerned, while the BJP has repeatedly played a strong hand by parading the reach and superior implementation of such schemes designed by the Centre, it was the local schemes that mattered more in this election when it came to establishing beneficiary connect and seeking votes (Somnath Sen/ANI)

Updated on Nov 23, 2024 15:48 IST

Why the Dalit vote may decide Haryana outcome

While discussing Dalit voting behaviour in the state, keep in mind that Dalits are not a homogeneous category (Photo by Santosh Kumar/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Oct 2, 2024 15:03 IST

How sub-classification will change Dalit politics

Noida, India- April 14, 2024: People seen on the occasion of the 133th birth anniversary of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar at Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal, sector 95, in Noida, India, on Sunday, April 14, 2024. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Sep 12, 2024 16:15 IST

The discreet charm of the subaltern godmen

Hathras India - July 04 2024: People looking towards the pandal at the spot after the incident at Hathras Sikandra Rao Satya Sangh. in Hathras , India on Thursday, July 04 2024. (Photo by Sakib Ali/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jul 8, 2024 15:46 IST

The Dalit vote is not a monolith despite the BSP

Noida, India- April 14, 2024: People seen on the occasion of the 133th birth anniversary of Dalit icon BR Ambedkar at Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal, sector 95, in Noida, India, on Sunday, April 14, 2024. (Photo by Sunil Ghosh / Hindustan Times)

Updated on May 17, 2024 17:44 IST

The emerging election mosaic in Uttar Pradesh

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav during Congress’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Agra. (Sourced)

Updated on Apr 17, 2024 16:40 IST

Political message in Bharat Ratna for Karpoori Thakur

Former CM Karpoori Thakur (HT Archive)

Updated on Jan 26, 2024 16:39 IST

Lessons for Congress in political diction of BJP

Congress workers celebrate early leads for their party in Telangana state elections in Hyderabad.

Updated on Dec 3, 2023 21:48 IST

Bihar survey exposes disparities among OBCs

Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar, deputy chief minister Tejashwi Yadav, Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly Vijay Kumar Sinha and other leaders during all parties’ meeting on Bihar Caste Census at the CM Secretariat. (PTI)

Updated on Nov 8, 2023 21:53 IST

Caring for the elders: From family to State

Affordable and accessible technologies can help in enhancing the quality of life, safety, independence, and social engagement of senior citizens.

Updated on Nov 8, 2023 17:07 IST

Many narratives of social justice politics

JD(U) supporters celebrate after the Bihar government released the caste survey report, in Patna on Monday. (ANI)

Updated on Oct 3, 2023 09:43 IST

NCERT textbook controversy: Much ado about nothing

India is not alone when it comes to controversies over revisions of textbooks; such things happens all over the world (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Apr 13, 2023 13:51 IST

Only quality education can empower the people and ensure social justice

The NCF is evolving an education system for the children that ensure all-around development as competent, sensitive, and spiritual human beings. (Hindustan Times)

Updated on Nov 16, 2022 13:19 IST

Dynasties could be the key narrative in 2024

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 76th Independence Day, Delhi (ANI)

Updated on Aug 18, 2022 17:15 IST

Politics of development is set for a new phase with Murmu

Beyond the electoral realm, there is also the symbolic – and that is, for the first time in independent India, a tribal woman is set to ascend to the highest office in the land and be the country’s first citizen.

Updated on Jul 7, 2022 16:06 IST

How the BJP retained its large social coalition in UP

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Union home minister Amit Shah in New Delhi, March 10, 2022 (PTI)

Updated on Mar 25, 2022 06:13 IST

In UP, a realignment of not just parties, but also communities

Assembly elections matter in a democracy because they determine the future trajectory of a state, the fate of its people, and, therefore, the nation (PTI)

Updated on Feb 8, 2022 15:12 IST

Based on alliances, it is advantage BJP

The Congress may also keep its options open to form post-poll alliances with anti-BJP political forces in some states

Updated on Mar 23, 2019 12:25 IST

How Mayawati chooses her alliance partners

Mayawati has opted to enter into an alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections due to political compulsion

Updated on Jan 19, 2019 14:07 IST

It is back to the Hindutva card in Uttar Pradesh

The BJP is trying to create a strong Hindu identity which may help form a social alliance that goes beyond caste in Uttar Pradesh

Updated on Nov 19, 2018 13:53 IST

Why Mayawati is a pragmatic politician

Mayawati may have gone against a BSP-Congress alliance in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, but she may take an altogether different stand in the Parliamentary elections

Updated on Oct 17, 2018 13:48 IST

Assembly elections 2017: How BJP won and the SP, BSP lost the Dalit vote in UP

The grand success of the BJP in the 2017 elections of Uttar Pradesh can be owed to its social engineering strategy crafted by Amit Shah

Updated on Mar 12, 2017 01:51 IST

Narendra Modi does not figure in the Dalit khichri

BJP-prime-ministerial-candidate-Narendra-Modi-greets-the-crowd-at-an-election-rally-in-Dhanbad-on-Tuesday-Bijay-HT-Photo

Updated on Apr 16, 2014 17:54 IST

Caste-ing a shadow on polls

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Updated on Jun 28, 2011 10:24 IST

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