"Inflation, particularly of food items, has been so shocking that people at the bottom 20 per cent are unable to buy in the bazaar what they could buy a year or two ago. That is the lived reality of the ordinary Indian which is why the government wants them to vote out of pride for a Ram mandir or out of pride for bashing Pakistan on Balakot, Pulwama.that is what they did last time in 2019," he said in an interview at the PTI headquarters here
A week after the CBI filed a closure report in an FIR registered in which he was named one of the accused, DCP Parag Manere, who was in a non-executive posting, was transferred to Thane police as DCP.
If 2022 Assembly polls are a basis, INDIA parties would come ahead of NDA in only 23 of UP's 80 LS seats, with Cong making a difference in just 3; BSP's addition, should it happen, could be a game changer
In the category of states where BJP is traditionally strong, the question was to renew itself in a way it appears as a newly packaged BJP. The next basket of states would be those where it has a strong presence but needs a consolidation strategy to keep its allies together and its electoral maths in place. Finally lies the category of states where party expansion is needed.
Most people in cricket-crazy India probably know the familiar drill preceding a cluster of hastily cobbled-up and half-witted cricket teams, joining hands to challenge the champion team in nondescript kasbahs or urban hamlets during annual jamborees.