- There is no collegium for the Election Commission, there should be a provision for it: Former CEC SY Qureshi to NDTVNDTV | Hindi Read article
- Murmu and beyond: BJP’s strategy of exclusion through symbolic inclusionThe News Minute Read article
- Congress’ new low in UP — left with no member in Legislative Council for 1st time everThe Print Read article
- Is the BJP in UP really more representative of society than other parties? Not reallyThe Indian Express Read article
- The Slow And Steady Decline Of BSPOutlook India Read article
- Uttar Pradesh remains saffron
- In today’s India, clothing choices signal a deepening religious divide
- Hindu nationalism pushed in test for Modi’s politics
- Hindu nationalism pushed in voting test for Modi’s politics
- Des élections décisives en Uttar Pradesh, laboratoire de la politique antimusulmane en Inde
- Elections in India’s most-populous state a test for Prime Minister Modi’s political future
- Elections In India: When Everything But Identity Politics Takes A Back Seat
- Uttar Pradesh elections: Is a rebellion brewing in Modi’s BJP?
- How India’s farmers faced down their prime minister and wonCBC Read article
- VICTORY FOR THE INDIAN FARMERS!The Medium Read article
- India’s Modi Withdraws Controversial Farm Laws After Yearlong ProtestsTime Read article
- Bowing to farmers’ protests, Modi agrees to repeal controversial agriculture lawsStuff Read article
- India’s farmers confronted Modi and won. What happens now?Vox Read article
- India to repeal farm laws that led to massive protestsLos Angeles Times Read article
- Ongoing Strife: India’s farmers want the world to bear witnessDT Next Read article
- Mind The Gap | Women leaders of India and the worldHindustan Times Read
- Tracking Political Parties in IndiaCentre for Data Innovation Read
- ‘Bizarre, Unreal and Astonishing’: Journalists, Politicians Recall 9/11 AttackThe Quint The Big Story Podcast Listen Now
- Why Are Parties Eyeing Brahmin Votes Ahead Of Uttar Pradesh Polls?Outlook Read article
- Days of 50% OBC quota cap are numbered, says political scientist Ashwani KumarThe Hindu Read article
- Secularism in India—A Relic of the Past?The Milli Gazette Read article
- Why UP politics looks more Brahmin-centric for 2022 elections
- ‘Too good to be true’ — former CEC Quraishi on Pew survey on religion in IndiaThe Print
‘Too good to be true’ — former CEC Quraishi on Pew survey on religion in India
Read article - Emerging superpower’ to ‘failed state’: How perceptions of India changed drastically under ModiScroll.in
‘Emerging superpower’ to ‘failed state’: How perceptions of India changed drastically under Modi
Read article - How India’s Kerala Has Battled Coronavirus
- Why despite its Bengal loss, BJP’s expansion should ring alarm bells, plus more election readsScroll.in
Must-read pieces on the results of assembly elections in West Bengal, Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Read article - How Mamata won woman voteThe Indan Express
By Proma Ray Chaudhury
Drawing upon Gilles Verniers’ and Maya Mirchandani’s study on gender representation in the Trinamool Congress, which argues “the party’s policy of promoting women as candidates is located in its strategic recognition of the winnability of women candidates instead of ideational commitments to gender parity.”
Read article - India’s ruling party just lost a key election. It’s worrying that they even stood a chance.Vox
By Zack Beauchamp
Gilles Verniers and Neelanjan Sircar on the BJP’s performance in the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections
Read article - Despite Mega-Modi Push, Why BJP Lost Bengal | Reality Check“Heard from multiple people that during the lockdown, it was Mamata Banerjee who saved them and not PM Modi,” says Nilanjan Sircar, senior visiting fellow, CPR, and Assistant Professor at Ashoka University.
- In Discussion | Elections amidst a Pandemic: Decoding Verdict of Assembly Polls 2021Panelists: SY Quraishi, Former Chief Election Commissioner & Distinguished Fellow, TCPD Neelanjan Sircar, Assistant Professor, Ashoka University & Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR Gilles Verniers, Co-Director, TCPD & Assistant Professor, Ashoka University & Senior Visiting Fellow, CPR Rahul Verma, Fellow, CPR Moderator: Yamini Aiyar, President & Chief Executive, CPR
- West Bengal election: Modi loses a battle in the ‘war for Indian democracy’BBC News
By Soutik Biswas (India Correspondent)
Neelanjan Sircar on Mamata Banerjee’s politics of “gender and welfare” providing an ideal counter-narrative to that of the BJP.”
Read article - Splits at top over India’s Covid crisisSocialist Worker
By Charlie Kimber
Gilles Verniers, Co-director at TCPD and political scientist at Ashoka University says, “The message is that the Modi brand on its own is probably fading, and is insufficient to compensate for the lack of proper organisation and governance.”
Read article - Modi’s Party Loses a Key Election, Held Under the Cloud of CovidThe New York Times
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar
Gilles Verniers, Co-director at TCPD and political scientist at Ashoka University opines to The New York Times on the BJP’s loss to the TMC in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections: “The West Bengal results tell us that Modi’s personal, divisive and aggressive campaign in West Bengal backfired.”
Read article - India’s ruling BJP suffers setback in state electionsFinancial Times
By Amy Kazmin
Gilles Verniers, Co-director at TCPD and political scientist at Ashoka University opines on the BJP’s loss to the TMC in the 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections
Read article - West Bengal Election Result 2021: Neelanjan Sircar On TMC’s Massive Lead In Bengal | India TodayWest Bengal Results: ‘Khela shesh’ or ‘khela hobe’ in Bengal? India will know the answer to this million-dollar question today as the counting of votes for the 292 seats in West Bengal that went to the polls in eight phases. According to the latest update, TMC is currently leading over 200 seats, On the other hand, BJP is at 88 seats. Neelanjan Sircar speaks to India Today over Mamata Banerjee-led TMC’s massive lead over BJP in West Bengal.
- Modi Opponents Seen Leading in India Polls Amid Covid-19 Mayhem
- The political fallout of the second wave
- Should election campaigns be made virtual? | The Hindu Parley podcast
- West Bengal 2021: Where the national hegemon is a local rebel
- ECI underlines EVM is old warhorse, eludes questions on its vulnerabilityNHS Bureau
SY Quraishi, Distinguished Fellow at TCPD and former Chief Election Commissioner of India on the ECI’s advertisement on the use of EVMs
Read article - The conundrum of BJP’s meteoric rise in Bengal, with Neelanjan Sircar and Sajjan Kumar
- The Political Fix: What makes a successful BJP chief minister in the Modi-Shah era?
- From the hinterland to Hollywood: how Indian farmers galvanised a protest movement
- What explains Modi government’s volatile authoritarianism, swinging from paranoia to paralysis?
- SY Quraishi debunks the myth of India’s rising Muslim population
- Neelanjan Sircar on Narendra Modi’s politics: ‘Murkier the data, easier it is to control narrative’
- Why myopic Left lost Tripura
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