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Identity politics, divisive ideologies eroding national unity’: SC judge Mishra

Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra was speaking at the inaugural session of the national council meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad in Gujarat on Friday

Supreme Court judge justice Prashant Kumar Mishra at a national council meeting of the Akhil Bharatiya Adhivakta Parishad (@AdhivaktaP/X)
Published on Dec 29, 2024 01:12 PM IST

Divisive rhetoric based on religion big challenge for constitutional ideal of fraternity: SC judge

Divisive rhetoric based on religion big challenge for constitutional ideal of fraternity: SC judge

Divisive rhetoric based on religion big challenge for constitutional ideal of fraternity: SC judge
Published on Dec 28, 2024 08:16 PM IST
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Maharashtra, Jharkhand Assembly elections: People’s issues missing yet again

Maharashtra’s farmer suicides and Jharkhand’s backward indexes are no long election themes. They have been replaced by a meaty dose of identity politics.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde being garlanded during a public meeting for the state Assembly election in Nandurbar on Sunday. (ANI Photo)(Eknath Shinde X)
Updated on Nov 18, 2024 02:01 PM IST

In West Bengal, caste links with Hindutva

The BJP's political growth in Bengal is driven by the successful mobilisation of several lower caste groups, but the logic draws from the template of Hindutva

**EDS: HANDOUT IMAGE** Krishnanagar: BJP supporters during a public meeting of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for Lok Sabha elections, in Krishnanagar, West Bengal, Friday, May 3, 2024. (PTI Photo)(PTI05_03_2024_000113B)(PTI)
Published on May 07, 2024 10:10 PM IST

Sibling rivalry erupts in Kerala, this time it’s a battle for legacy

As former Congressman and chief minister K Karunakaran's daughter Padmaja joins the BJP, all bets are off between her and brother, Congress leader Muraleedharan

Former Congress leader from Kerala Padmaja Venugopal addresses media after joining Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of party leader Prakash Javadekar in New Delhi on March 7.(PTI)
Updated on Mar 10, 2024 11:09 PM IST

What’s the truth of Vivek Ramaswamy?

People like Ramaswamy have the ability to sow seeds of self-doubt in those who don’t strictly live by a party constitution.

FILE PHOTO: Former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at the first Republican candidates' debate of the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 23, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo(REUTERS)
Updated on Sep 11, 2023 07:59 AM IST

‘Politics in slums highly active and competitive’

A new book by political scientists Adam Auerbach and Tariq Thachil, Migrants and Machine Politics, informs much of what we think we know is based on myth.

Auerbach and Thachil spoke about their findings on last week’s “Grand Tamasha” podcast, a co-production of HT and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (HT)
Updated on Jun 05, 2023 03:42 PM IST
By, New Delhi

Ron DeSantis launches Presidential bid with Elon Musk : 5 key takeaways

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launches unconventional 2024 Presidential campaign with celebrity CEO Elon Musk amid technical hurdles and policy focus.

A screen grab shows Florida Governor Ron DeSantis participating in a Twitter Space event with Elon Musk and others as he announces he is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, May 24, 2023. Elon Musk via Twitter/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES MANDATORY CREDIT(via REUTERS)
Updated on May 25, 2023 07:14 AM IST

Bihar symbolises a larger shift in politics | Opinion

This is driven by new aspirations, demography, information flows, and the PM’s popularity

The electoral strategy of stitching together a plurality of minority and some caste groups has maxed out. PM Modi recognised the change(ANI)
Updated on Oct 27, 2020 08:25 PM IST
ByBaijayant “Jay” Panda

What Bihar will tell us about national politics

Given the pandemic, the nature of the election, of political competition, and of issues has changed. The outcome will reveal the mood

The BJP’s national leadership is clear that it will stick to Nitish Kumar for some more time — not because it trusts him but because it doesn’t want to take the risk of a repeat of the defeat of 2015(HT PHOTO)
Updated on Sep 20, 2020 05:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By

BJP’s new Mumbai chief wants BJP-Sena to win all 36 Assembly seats in city

Mangal Prabhat Lodha also indicated that the party’s poll campaign in Mumbai may also feature issues of nationalism and identity politics

Newly appointed Mumbai BJP president Mangal Prabhat Lodha at the BJP office in Dadar, Mumbai, on Friday.(SATISH BATE/ HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jul 20, 2019 01:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By, Mumbai

Modi won because he delivered on his promises

The key takeaway from the verdict is that governance is here to stay, and identity politics is on its last legs

Narendra Modi managed to create history by becoming India’s first reformist prime minister to be voted back to power, and that too, with a bigger mandate(AFP)
Updated on Jun 05, 2019 06:52 PM IST
ByArvind Gupta

Elections 2019: Why the first phase is critical

Besides the macro messaging, the campaign has also been characterised by minute focus on identity politics and constructing social alliances. As voters exercise their choice, the first phase of the polls will be a test for the parties on which of the messages resonates the most, in which regions, and which social alliances will prevail.

Election officials arrive with poll-related material on a ferry through the river Brahmaputra ahead of first phase of elections in Nimati Ghat in Jorhat, Assam, April 9, 2019(AP)
Updated on Apr 11, 2019 11:41 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Identity politics shouldn’t overshadow real issues

In this election, all parties must stay away from both shallow secularism, which seeks to treat minorities as a homogeneous votebank to be mobilised, and majoritarianism, which seeks to blur all the diversity within the Hindu fold

What was as striking was Ms Mayawati’s sharp attack against the Congress — she is understood to have been the most resistant to a wider alliance with the Congress.(AFP)
Updated on Apr 09, 2019 07:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Lok Sabha polls 2019: Mumbai set to vote on April 29

If the last two polls are anything to go by, it is likely that the alliance that wins Mumbai in Lok Sabha Elections 2019 may as well win the most seats in Maharashtra.

Mumbai has traditionally swept completely saffron or the other way around, with all six seats showing a similar voting preference.(Hindustan Times)
Updated on Mar 12, 2019 02:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | By, Mumbai

EWS quota: Narendra Modi’s move to curb the ills of identity politics

India has reiterated the principle that economic backwardness in and of itself is a sufficient criterion for government-mandated affirmative action; it is not social identity alone that determines welfare need.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers carry flags past a poster of Prime Minister Narendra Modi during an event to celebrate the reservation bill passed in the Parliament, Mumbai, January 10.(AFP)
Published on Feb 11, 2019 07:31 AM IST
ByRajeev Mantri and Harsh Gupta

BJP to hold executive meet today, strategy for poll-bound states top agenda

The National Register of Citizens in Assam and the Citizens Amendment Bill will also come up for discussion as the party ups the ante on identity politics.

The upcoming Assembly elections in four states that will set the trend for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls are likely to figure prominently in the two-day BJP National Executive meet beginning in Delhi on Saturday.(HT File Photo)
Updated on Sep 08, 2018 07:24 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

The NRC exercise will lead to an upsurge in identity politics in the Northeast

Even if 35 lakh people are disenfranchised instead of 40 lakh after appeals, it would still be the biggest such mass disenfranchisement in world history

Villagers arrive by boat to check their names in the final draft of the National Register of Citizens at a centre at Goroimari after its release, in Kamrup district of Assam on Monday, July 30(PTI)
Updated on Aug 01, 2018 06:35 PM IST
BySamrat

Two Iftars, two approaches towards minorities

The Congress and the BJP are engaging differently with minorities

New Delhi: Former president Pranab Mukherjee during the Iftar party hosted by Congress President Rahul Gandhi, in New Delhi on Wednesday, June 13, 2018(PTI)
Updated on Jun 15, 2018 09:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | By

Dalit movements across India will be a front against hegemonic nationalism

Dalit identity politics is fast churning out an expansive axis of emancipatory struggle, and with all its ambiguities, perhaps the last few formidable sites that could resist and refigure the cultural hegemony on which the various edifices of Indian nationalism rests.

Dalit mobilisation is at an all-time spontaneous high, and this is the time to foster lateral pan-Indian networks of Dalit resistance (Representative Photo)(Raj K Raj/HT)
Published on Apr 18, 2018 12:02 PM IST
BySomak Biswas

Americans didn’t choose Trump because of economic concerns

Donald Trump based his campaign almost entirely on the politics “difference” and identity

Since Donald Trump’s shock victory last month, the Democratic Party and its supporters have plunged into a cantankerous inquest(AFP)
Updated on Sep 17, 2018 10:49 AM IST
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