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Opinion | Vote-bank politics is not always bad for democracy

Trouble arises only if a party appeals to a particular group at the cost of another group’s interests

4 min read8 Apr 2019
Politics

BJP plans to reach out to Dalits in Telangana ahead of 2019 polls

The BJP is banking on various outreach programmes to draw Dalit votes and help the party gain a foothold in Telangana, while at the same time weakening the Congress

2 min read16 Jul 2018
Politics

Narendra Modi says Congress tradition of vote-bank politics fading

Narendra Modi said the urban population kept rising but no attention was paid to amenities by the previous regimes

2 min read23 Jun 2018
Politics

Congress, BJP chart out caste equations for Karnataka elections

Congress earmarks 103 constituencies to Lingayats, Vokkaligas and Kurubas, BJP gives 55 seats to Lingayat candidates and 20 to Vokkaliga leaders

1 min read17 Apr 2018
Politics

Karnataka elections: For Congress, the Lingayat issue now a double-edged sword

Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah's strategy to split the BJP support base, the Lingayat vote bank, is facing opposition from within the Congress

2 min read27 Mar 2018
Opinion

India’s perverse political equilibrium

While the state trades its monopoly over force for vote banks, 'deras' and ashrams provide a social security net for people

4 min read30 Aug 2017
Politics

BJP playing vote bank politics by nominating Dalit for president: Shiv Sena

Ally Shiv Sena accused the BJP of indulging in vote bank politics by proposing a Dalit nomineeBihar governor Ramnath Kovindfor the post of president

1 min read19 Jun 2017
Politics

UP elections: Phoolan Devi’s village key to MBC vote bank

Neglected for years by SP and BSP governments, the people of Phoolan Devi's village Ghura ka Purva have found hope in Narendra Modi's narrative of development

2 min read23 Feb 2017
Politics

How people will ‘vote their caste’ in Uttar Pradesh election

Even though India today is a vibrant democracy, politics in Uttar Pradesh is still influenced by the Hindu caste system, a social hierarchy with its origins in antiquity

1 min read20 Feb 2017
Opinion

Muslim vote bank: Reality or myth?

Travelling through western Uttar Pradesh in the thick of assembly elections threw up stories that challenge the ordinary. Here's one of them

4 min read13 Feb 2017
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