Wake-up call
The global democratic landscape in 2024 reveals an unsettling yet fascinating trend. Across continents, voters have upended incumbents, embraced polarising ideologies, and gravitated toward both Right and Left-wing populism.
The global democratic landscape in 2024 reveals an unsettling yet fascinating trend. Across continents, voters have upended incumbents, embraced polarising ideologies, and gravitated toward both Right and Left-wing populism.
The results of the Maharashtra and Jharkhand Legislative Assembly elections are now out, and new governments have been formed in both states. The Chief Ministers and some ministers have also taken their oaths.
Ahead of the counting day, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said due to the alertness of the INDIA bloc, voters, supporters, workers, officials, leaders, candidates, entire PDA community and some honest media persons, the BJP was on a backfoot in these bypolls.
Among the nine assembly constituencies that went for by poll on Wednesday, Ghaziabad recorded the lowest voter turnout at 33.30 percent, as per the data issued by the Election Commission.
The BJP on Tuesday denied allegations that its national general secretary Vinod Tawde was caught red-handed while distributing cash to voters at a hotel in Virar near Mumbai, more than 17 hours after campaigning for the Maharashtra Assembly election concluded.
There has been an increase of about 32,000 new voters in West Burdwan district, in the final electoral list published by the Election Commission of India three months before the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) candidate Adam Azim defeated Azima Shakoor from the ruling People's National Congress (PNC).
Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday took on the opposition leaders for staging a united front against the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government by saying that people will make them sit at home in 2024.
Days after the Calcutta High Court order to requisition central forces for deployment in panchayat elections to the West Bengal State Election Commission, Central Forces on Saturday held a route march in Bolpur town of Birbhum district to instil confidence in the voters.
PM Modi urged people to come out and vote in large numbers as voting for`byelections in Punjab , UP, Odisha and Meghalaya commenced.
