Politics

News and views regarding the political landscape of India. From national political parties to regional news, we try and cut through the noise to explain how Indian politics is shaping up.

News Reports

17th Lok Sabha election witnesses 78 women representatives in the parliament, highest so far

OpIndia Staff - 25 May, 2019

The women representatives have improved from 5 per cent in 1st Lok Sabha to 14.36 per cent in the 17th Lok Sabha

Congress is now reduced to a ‘vote cutter’ party, costing its allies as many as 9 seats in UP

Nirwa Mehta - 25 May, 2019

The grand old party has reduced itself to a fringe party which cuts into votes costing their own former ally as many as 9 seats in UP

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Election 2019 Results: 21 seats where NOTA polled more votes than the winning margin

Aditya (reviewero) - 25 May, 2019

We look at data on NOTA in the 2019 Lok Sabha Election. In which seats did NOTA really make a difference?

Opinions

The failure of Mahagathbandhan in UP: Have voters finally discarded caste-based politics?

Sanghamitra - 25 May, 2019

Congress ecosystem kept saying that while Mayawati will take Muslim and Dalit votes, Akhilesh will take Yadav votes, and Congress will help defeat BJP by stealing away 'upper caste' votes.

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Congress keeps sinking, but shows no sign of detaching itself from the deadweight of Nehru-Gandhi dynasty

Sanghamitra - 25 May, 2019

In Western UP, 21 of the 22 Congress candidates have lost deposits, meaning they could not even get 1/6th of the total votes polled. Congress stalwarts like Salman Khurshid and Raj Babbar have lost their deposits.

Opinions

The difference lies in what holds BJP and Congress ecosystems together

Abhishek Banerjee - 25 May, 2019

What keeps the BJP juggernaut together and drives it? Ideology.

Opinions

Shivam Vij is the ‘Kachcha Nimbu’ of ThePrint that gets to bat from both sides

Jinit Jain - 24 May, 2019

Shivam Vij’s flagrantly contradictory articles claim all possible outcomes of an event, maybe so he could later claim that he was right in 50% of the instances.

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