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Just when the opposition finally seemed to be getting on track in taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government at the Centre, it got derailed again with its personal attack against him. Questioning PM Modi for his botched up handling of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic or his flawed vaccine policy was wise, but questioning his crying and mocking him for shedding ‘crocodile tears’ is equally unwise.
A photo of what appeared to be the front page of
The New York Times (but was actually a satirical post by a parody Twitter handle called The Daily New York Times) quickly took off and caught people’s interest. Many mistook the image of a crocodile carrying the headline ‘India’s PM cried’ for real, and made it viral on social media. The opposition and Modi’s critics thought they had found the perfect tool to target him with, following his ’emotional’ moments during a virtual interaction with health workers from Varanasi.
Election Commission-BJP Nexus Is All too Clear â and Bengal Is the Latest Example
Since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Nirvachan Sadan has acted more as an appendage of the ruling elite â perfectly in line with the classical populist authoritarian playbook.
Election Commission of India.
How Democracies
Die, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt put it succinctly: democracies die at the hands of elected leaders who subvert the very process that brought them to power. The elected authoritarians slowly, but steadily, weaken the critical institutions like the judiciary and press and the established political norms.
The authoritarians employ ingenious methods to get re-elected with a bigger majority. That will give them not only legitimacy but an aura of invincibility. Of over two dozen global studies on poll rigging,
Vishwaguru to burning front pages â Modiâs festival of democracy is taking a beating
At the turn of the 21st century, India told the world that it no longer needed foreign aid. That India has been eclipsed by pictures of pyres on front pages.
Shruti Kapila 3 May, 2021 9:43 am IST Text Size:
ishwaguru or teacher to the world
 â this was meant to be India’s latest avatar in the international order. Cultivated and crafted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2015, India was to instruct the world as a guru. By weaponising India’s civilisational values and channelling the original global guru Swami Vivekananda, Modi sought to reposition and recast India’s image as one anchored in self-reliance, strength, and sovereignty.
Here s Why Pinarayi Vijayan Can t Be Called a Modi in a Mundu
Going by classical definitions, the chief minister is far from being an autocrat. What saves him is the Left s deeply embedded corrective mechanism.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan at an election rally. Photo: Twitter/@CPIMKerala
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The CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front is set to retain power in Kerala, with the trends projecting it as leading or having won at least 94 of the 140 assembly seats.
The LDF victory will curb a four decade-old trend of the state electing communist and Congress-headed governments alternatively.
Two years ago, soon after the Left Front suffered a stunning defeat in the 2019 parliamentary elections, prominent Malayalam daily