BJP के खाते में 250 सीटें और 2 करोड़ वोट ट्रांसफर हुए ? EC Vs Supreme Court on Election Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMujzN4XjA DESH NEETI  May 23, 2024

https://thewire.in/politics/datadive-the-40-lok-sabhas-bjp-won-in-2019-with-less-than-50000-margin  Close contests in 40 seats include Machhlishahr in UP with just 181 votes. BJP won 303 seats in 2019, and the halfway mark is 272, that is, it crossed the margin by 33 seats only.

https://www.jansatta.com/national/govt-tells-sc-on-electoral-bond-scheme-why-must-voter-know-the-source-of-political-funding/977183/सरकार की तरफ से अटॉर्नी जनरल केके वेणुगोपाल ने कहा कि ‘मेरे विचार में मतदाता को सिर्फ उसके उम्मीदवार को बारे में जानने का अधिकार है, उसे इस बात से क्या लेना-देना कि राजनीतिक दल को चंदा कहा से आ रहा है।

The BJP’s Drive for Hegemony https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-bjps-drive-for-hegemony/ Sanjay Ruparelia ▪ Spring 2024

And why does the BJP, despite its apparent ideological hegemony, seek to suppress any sign of opposition or dissent?

Another electoral victory would enable Narendra Modi’s party to inscribe de facto Hindu supremacy into law.

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/after-the-populist-moment/ 

After the Populist Moment
By looking at right-wing politics around the world, we can better understand conservatives’ abiding preoccupations and priorities, and how they might be thwarted. Introducing our Spring 2024 issue, “The Global Right.”

Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ Spring 2024 Just under a decade ago, we passed through a “populist moment,” so-called because of Brexit, Trump’s election, and the rise of Marine Le Pen as a serious contender for the French presidency, all in rapid succession. emerging from the dashed hopes and profound failings of the neoliberal order—and in many ways it has been. The terrain on which political struggle now takes place has been deeply altered by the right, with less educated voters, many of them from the working class, leaving their ancestral political parties and supporting the forces of reaction over issues like immigration, national identity, and “law and order.” But in electoral terms, the right’s record has been hit or miss, and it’s worth learning from their failures as well as their successes...In some cases, such as Hungary, India, and Israel, right-wing parties have held power through multiple election cycles. How have they entrenched their rule and tried to legitimize their revanchist projects? 

https://know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V3VziJhKxg  मोदी-शाह ने ठिकाने लगा दिया स्मृति ईरानी को, इस खुलासे ने हड़कंप मचा दिया! 4PM
अमेठी में बुरा फंस गई स्मृति ईरानी, योगी आदित्यनाथ से भिड़ गई? अमित शाह मंच पर भड़के, स्मृति के करीबी का हाथ झटक दिया, मचा बवाल वीडियो वायरल! अमेठी में बुरा हार गई भाजपा स्मृति ईरानी भाग खड़ी हुई! देखिए रिपोर्ट

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDjGHNWHzZk Smriti Irani upset after Loss in Amethi FIR lodged against journalist Avesh Tiwari What he says..  https://youtu.be/iDjGHNWHzZk?t=523

Smriti Irani upset after Loss in Amethi FIR lodged against journalist Avesh Tiwari.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDjGHNWHzZk 

Smriti Irani upset after Loss in Amethi FIR lodged against journalist Avesh Tiwari.

WHILE RETIRING, CALCUTTA HC JUDGE SAYS HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN RSS MEMBER https://thewire.in/law/while-retiring-calcutta-hc-judge-says-he-has-always-been-an-rss-member 21/May/2024

"Today, I must unfold my true self. I owe a lot to one organisation [RSS]. I am there from my childhood till I attained my youth." “I have distanced myself from the organisation (RSS) for about 37 years due to the work I undertook. I never used the membership of my organisation for any advancement of my career, because that is against our principle. I have treated everybody at par, be it a Communist person, be it a BJP or Congress or even TMC person. 

..In October last year, he was part of a bench that issued a code of conduct for adolescent girls to “control their sexual urges” so that they are not deemed a “loser” by society. The Supreme Court had come down heavily on this judgment, saying that “writing such judgments is absolutely wrong”.

Narendra Modi 'a Textbook Autocrat with Totalitarian Goals”  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hxvlBqsSD4  The Wire
May 20, 2024
 Radha Kumarr latest book, The Republic Relearnt: Renewing Indian Democracy (1947-2024) .

 Modi could be more dangerous than ordinary authoritarian rulers. She says: “Authoritarians whose dominant interest is personal power are less dangerous to democracy than those with a long-term and far-reaching agenda … their grip on power is more difficult to shake … the Modi administration falls into the latter category.” 

However, Radha Kumar makes clear that, as things stand, India has not become a totalitarian state but is well on the way to becoming one. This is a process that is happening quietly and, even, silently without the recognition it should have got. 

 Radha Kumar spells out in detail the values and principles of the Indian constitution that have either been jettisoned or, at least, ignored by the Modi government since it first came to power in 2014. Radha Kumar spells out the signposts which she believes indicate that India is in the process of becoming a new republic i.e. the second republic. 

Kashmiris Are Not Happy with BJP and They Are Voting to Make this Clear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp4xdCiToYU   A.S. Dulat  May 18, 2024

The Wire Amarjit Singh Dulat, a former Head of R&AW and an acknowledged expert on terrorism and the Kashmir Valley, says “it is not correct to say militancy is finished in Kashmir”, adding it keeps popping up from time to time in different places and has now, presently, spread to the south. Mr. Dulat also says “Kashmiris are not happy with the BJP” adding “let’s put it absolutely, directly straight”. However, he adds that “today the Kashmiri wants to participate in elections” because they want to be ruled by people of their choice. Mr. Dulat says the turnout will be even higher when assembly elections are held.

his new book ‘Covert: The Psychology of War and Peace’, co-authored with Gen. Asad Durrani, a former Head of Pakistan’s ISI. The interview starts with a discussion of his relationship with Gen. Durrani, who he accepts and describes as a friend with whom he has closely collaborated to write two books. The first was called ‘The Spy Chronicles’. The interview has an extensive discussion on Gen. Durrani, which I will leave you to see and hear for yourself. Mr. Dulat is not just an admirer of Gen. Durrani but clearly likes him. He speaks of “the chemistry” between them and of Gen. Durrani’s winning “candour”, which makes him “special”.

Towards the end of the interview, Mr. Dulat explains what he means when he says that in peace-making it’s the singer not the song that is more important. He explains that the ‘singers’ in Pakistan are willing and keen for better relations but in India the ‘singers’ have begun to ask what is to be gained by making efforts to improve the relationship, particularly since Pakistan is increasingly an inefficient and incompetent if not a failed state.

Modi Took a 180-Degree Turn on Aadhaar, But the ‘I Am Me’ Card’s Flaws Remain https://thewire.in/government/modi-took-a-180-degree-turn-on-aadhaar-but-the-i-am-me-cards-flaws-remain Jahnavi Sen

In 2014, Narendra Modi referred to the Aadhaar programme as a “political gimmick”. Two years later, his government pushed the Aadhaar Act through parliament. In the last 10 years, while carefully maintaining that it is a “voluntary” programme, his government has slowly but surely ensured that Aadhaar is mandatory in all the ways that matter.

Fifteen years after the Aadhaar programme was imagined, the ease with which our personal data is demanded of us – most recently at airports, under another programme that claims to be mandatory but is slipped in as required – has only gone up. Private entities are being allowed to store this data, with little oversight or regulation on what happens to it. “I am me” – a simple and catchy phrase that apparently defined Aadhaar – comes with a voice that offers individual agency; it is I who wishes to identify myself. But the programme and world it has created, over the years, have crept so far into our lives that they no longer needs our permission to exist and announce themselves.