Tag: Democracy

ANAND/RAJKOT: PM Modi Thursday slammed an INDIA bloc constituent’s call for “vote jihad” as “an insult to democracy and Constitution”.PM said he found the remark of Maria Alam, SP candidate and niece of Congress veteran Salman Khurshid, at a rally in UP all the more shocking as it came ...

UNVEILING its “Shapatnama” instead of manifesto, the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Thursday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of leading the country by his “whims and fancies, putting minorities under constant threat and using government machinery as a weapon to break democratic systems and suppress political opposition”. The manifesto lays ...

Trump warned the Americans of the ostensible threat to democracy by insisting, “I don’t think you’re going to have another election in this country, if we don’t win this election … certainly not an election that’s meaningful”. If anyone were to question Trump’s credentials on democracy, they would be ...

WASHINGTON, Apr 23 : India and the United States regularly consult at the highest levels on democracy and human rights issues, a senior US State Department official said on Monday, after an official report claimed that there were significant human rights abuses in Manipur last year. “The US and ...

CHENNAI - Close to 970 million Indians start voting today as India holds its general election with polls suggesting that incumbent Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will win a third term in the world's largest democracy."Many Indians view Modi as a ‘strongman figure’. None of the opposition parties can field a ...

If the Bharatiya Janata Party under Prime Minister Narendra succeeds in winning a third five-year term in the Lok Sabha elections, many fear that India’s religious minorities, especially Muslims, will see their second-class status formalised in law and practice.But for Hindu supremacy to be fully realised, which is the ...

In 2014, India’s young first-time voters played a crucial role in bringing the Bharatiya Janata Party to power at the Centre. Exit polls found that turnout in that election among Indians ages 18 to 25 surpassed that of the general population for the first time – at around 70%.In ...

Apni Party Vice President, Zafar Iqbal Manhas today held that the traditional political parties were responsible for the suffering of the people because they were deprived of real democracy in Jammu and Kashmir, especially in the Valley from the last seven decades. As per the press release, Zafar Iqbal ...

Kartik Naik is in his 40s, and works as a mason’s helper in the Nettoor area, in Kerala’s Ernakulam, where mostly Odia male migrant labourers reside. As polling for his state’s assembly and for the Lok Sabha nears, Kartik says that he does not plan to return to his ...

NEW DELHI: After two consecutive terms in power, even the most popular governments start losing support but India stands out as an exception where popular support for the ruling government is increasing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Newsweek in the run up to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in ...