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.

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Pakistan: Imran Khan announces Haqeeqi Azadi March to Islamabad after being disqualified by Election Commission

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2022

Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan commences his 'Haqeeqi Azadi March' from Lahore to Islamabad

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Furnish proof that names of Muslim and Yadav voters deleted from the electoral roll: EC issues notice to Akhilesh Yadav

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2022

EC issued notice to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav on his claim that names of nearly 20,000 Muslim and Yadav voters have been deleted

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DMK leader Saidai Sadiq makes sexual innuendos against women actor-turned-BJP leaders, DMK MP Kanimozhi apologizes on his behalf: Read what happened

OpIndia Staff - 28 October, 2022

DMK MP Kanimozhi was responding to a Tweet posted by BJP leader Khushbu Sundar, who tagged Kanimozhi and asked if insulting women was part of the “new Dravidian Model”.

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RTI reply reveals that the Delhi AAP government gave Rs 101 crores to the Delhi Waqf board in seven years

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2022

In the financial year 2020-21 alone, Rs. 62.57 crores were given to the Delhi Waqf Board by the Delhi govt

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‘Like Kejriwal, like MLA’: After AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, Netizens mock his MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj for following ‘adult’ Twitter account

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2022

Netizens mock AAP MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj for following in Kejriwal's footsteps when he was found following an 'adult' Twitter account named @edynwaifu

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Shiv Sena (UBT) leader demands Balasaheb Thackeray’s photo on currency notes, BJP MLA wants Shivaji, Ambedkar, Savarkar and Modi

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2022

For the past two days, there has been a lot of controversy over the currency notes in India and the photo of MK Gandhi on these notes.

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Amit Malviya to pursue criminal and civil proceedings against “The Wire” over their fraudulent reporting targeting the BJP leader

OpIndia Staff - 27 October, 2022

The Wire, founded by American citizen Siddarth Varadarajan, had alleged that Amit Malviya has been given access by Facebook's parent company Meta to delete anti-BJP posts from Facebook and Instagram.

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