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Missing on Mamata’s Achievement Report Card: Minority Development

Calcutta: Mamata Banerjee’s recently released Trinamool Congress (TMC) report on her rule of the past 10 years is conspicuously absent: figures on minority development. The report card detailed how under the TMC regime, budgets increased two or three times in the sectors of welfare, health, agriculture and education of women …

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Protests against farm laws have a familiar pattern

If there is anyone who should not be surprised by the sustained and widespread opposition of farmers to the laws passed in September, it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Because these “reforms” bear exactly the same stamp of arrogance, lack of consultation and foresight that has characterized all the important …

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The Sinister Chances of the Outcome of Farmers’ Protests

We have had many protests during the six-year period of Narendra Modi’s evil rule, including by students, anti-CAA protesters, and Dalits, among others. However, in each of these protests, the current regime attempted to launch an aggressive counter-narrative, equating students with anti-national protesters, anti-CAA with jihadists, and Dalits in Bhima …

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With emotional appeal high, Modi’s government has lost the plot

New Delhi: The escalation of union government on a series of contentious clauses in the recently formulated farm laws has only reinforced the perception that the Center led by Narendra Modi prefers agitation to consultation. In recent years, the ruling BJP’s non-consultative approach has precipitated multiple upheavals. However, he has …

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