BUSINESS
PM Modi’s exclusive interview to Moneycontrol: What message does it carry?
PM Modi has addressed a diverse audience effortlessly while foregrounding the big strides India has taken under his leadership and the painstaking efforts during India’s G20 Presidency to make a positive difference for people all over the world. With elections on the anvil, his answers also added up to perfect political messaging
BUSINESS
Why the OBC card matters in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls
BJP’s narrative that numerically larger non-dominant OBCs are being taken for a ride has been effective. For 2024, the Opposition bet on caste census and BJP’s on Vishwakarma Yojana with its implicit non-dominant OBC focus presage a spirited battle to corner the OBC vote Sanjay Kumar
POLITICS
Three reasons why 2024 is not like the 2004 elections
Those arguing that AB Vajpayee’s surprise defeat in 2004 could be replayed in 2024 are on weak ground. One, Congress has shrunk from 2004 and BJP has expanded, secondly PM Modi’s popularity is of a different order than then PM Vajpayee’s, and finally today’s nationalism and “sabka vikas” narrative is working better than in 2004
POLITICS
NDA and INDIA: One stronger in Lok Sabha, the other in assemblies
Who is ahead at the moment? The only numbers giving a sense of present strengths are the vote shares and seat counts of individual parties of the alliance in the Lok Sabha and legislative assemblies. In Lok Sabha it is BJP by a distance, while the tables turn in assemblies. One big question lingers: Is there a swinging voter in national elections?
BUSINESS
Bengal Panchayat Polls: TMC’s big win no indication of its 2024 prospects
Voters are making clear distinctions between panchayat, assembly and Lok Sabha polls. The state’s ruling party has an advantage in panchayats. In 2014 and 2019, BJP did better in Lok Sabha polls in Bengal than the panchayat elections which preceded and the assembly polls which followed. So the battle for 2024 has just begun and is far from over
BUSINESS
Despite Patna start, seat sharing and Index Of Opposition Unity will trouble the incipient coalition
ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
Rajasthan: Will it be a change of government or a change of tradition?
POLITICS
Bihar: BJP focuses on non-Yadav-Kurmi-Muslim voters to blunt the Mahagathbandan’s 2024 plans
ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
Karnataka Verdict: Don’t conflate politics and elections. One election does not set trends for another state or the whole country
ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
Karnataka Elections: Some questions about the exit poll process
ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
Karnataka Elections: It’s 'national versus local' as BJP and Congress play to their respective strengths
BUSINESS
Opposition Unity: Zero chemistry between opposition leaders defeats all the non-BJP vote share calculations
POLITICS
Karnataka Elections: Its support scattered across regions and communities, can Congress turn this to its advantage?
POLITICS
How women voters became front and centre of the electoral outreach by political parties
BUSINESS
Old Pension Scheme not a gamechanger for 2023 assembly polls or 2024 Lok Sabha elections
