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Trends Show 2017 Assembly Bypolls Redux as BJP Leads in 6 Seats, SP Hold on to 1

Trends Show 2017 Assembly Bypolls Redux as BJP Leads in 6 Seats, SP Hold on to 1

Voters display their identity cards outside a polling station at Paliganj, in Bihar. (AP Photo/Aftab Alam Siddiqui)

In 2017, the six seats — Ghatampur, Bulandshahr, Bangarmau, Unnao, Deoria and Naugaon Sadat — were all grabbed by the BJP, while SP had won Malhani seat that saw a close contest between Lucky Yadav and independent candidate Dhananjay Singh.

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Haryana Bypoll Result: Counting of votes underway in Baroda Assembly constituency Image Source : PTI Haryana Bypoll Result: Counting of votes for Baroda Assembly bypoll seat begins…

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By-Polls For 7 UP Seats Tomorrow, All Eyes On Kuldeep Sengar’s Unnao Seat Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has been the BJP's star campaigner for the by-polls. (File) Lucknow: By-elections will be held on seven assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday -- the first after a string of incidents that led to questions over Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's handling of law and order.

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Belarusian dictator pwned by "cyber-partisans"

Belarus is “Europe’s last Soviet dictatorship,” a country ruled by Alexander Lukashenko, an absurd authoritarian caricature who once had a one-armed man arrested for clapping:

https://loweringthebar.net/2013/01/one-armed-man-arrested-for-clapping.html

Lukashenko’s brutality is absurd, but it’s no joke. Belarus has a terrible human rights record: it’s a corrupt land of secret disappearances and torture (it’s also my heritage: my grandfather was born in Nowy Swerzne, Belarus).

Lukashenko is a clown, but he possesses the administrative competence to avail himself of high-tech surveillance — a decade ago, he was already using mobile carriers’ records to obtain lists of every person who attended anti-government demonstrations.

https://charter97.org/en/news/2011/1/12/35161/

But as the saying goes “any weapon you don’t know how to use is your enemy’s.” Lukashenko’s regime is highly digitized — and badly secured. Earlier this year, hacktivists called the Belarusian Cyber Partisans announced that they’d obtained a huge trove of government docs.

The trove includes the identities of police informants, government officials’ personal information (including spies), recordings from the state’s widespread wiretapping program, and footage from security cameras and drones.

Now, these documents are starting to trickle out. As Ryan Gallagher reports for Bloomberg, the authorities are starting to freak. The head of the Belarusian KGB made a special TV broadcast to blame the breach on foreign spies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-24/belarus-hackers-seek-to-overthrow-local-government

The leaks expose Lukashenko officials to liability in the International Criminal Court when and if the regime finally falls. The leaks are being promoted by BYPOL, a dissident group of former Belarusian cops who resigned en masse after last year’s rigged election.

They’re especially incensed to learn that Lukashenko’s spies were wiretapping cops (including senior cops), and planning violent suppression of peaceful protesters — actions that made the cops look particularly bad.

While there are parallels between the Cyber Partisans and other hacktivist groups like Anonymous, Gabriella Coleman (who literally wrote the book on political hacktivism) told Gallagher that this represents a new level of hacktivist activity.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/books/9373852/the-anonymous-ghost-in-the-machine/

Gallagher spoke to a Cyber Partisans spokesperson who claimed the group’s membership was 15 people: 304 intrusion specialists with the rest serving as data-analysts. The members are said to work in Belarus’s tech industry.

There’s lots more to come in this breach — they have 1–2 million minutes of wiretap audio alone.

Lukashenko’s hold on power has never been more fragile. Even by low global standards, his government seriously bungled covid respnse.

Last year’s protests over obviously rigged elections saw massive waves of protest that only swelled in the face of brutal repression and mass arrests. Senior military officers publicly burned their uniforms in protest.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/14/shock-doctrine/#walkaway

Dozens of riot cops dropped their shields and switched sides, embracing protesters as brothers.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/14/europe/belarus-protests-riot-police-intl/index.html

Coleman told Gallagher that she had never seen hacktivists operating as skilfully as the Cyber Partisans “except in the movies.” It’s true that Belarus’s indomitable and creative opposition seem to be ripped from fiction.

Last year, I wrote that the protests bore a resemblance to the climax of my 2017 novel Walkaway.

https://craphound.com/category/walkaway/

The current breach triggered lots of email from people who say it reminds them of the plot of my 2020 novel Attack Surface:

https://craphound.com/attacksurface/

But I didn’t “predict” this — instead, I observed the same tactics being used by other opposition movements as the Cyber Patriots, and, like them, thought about how they might evolve.

Just as my 2008 novel Little Brother was inspired by the whistleblower Mark Klein, who revealed the NSA’s mass surveillance program — official lies about this also inspired Snowden’s decision to reveal more NSA secrets.

I didn’t “predict” Snowden — instead, we were both paying attention to the same underlying phenomena. And while it’s easy to get discouraged about the ways that tech is used as a force for oppression and control, examples like this remind us of its liberatory potential.

The mission of technological self-determination isn’t motivated by blind faith that more tech leads to more human rights — rather, it’s the dual understanding that unless we seize the means of computation tech will be a terrible force for oppression.

But that also, wrestling control over the technology that enables us to form groups and coordinate their actions has powerful potential for human thriving. This isn’t crude optimism, rather, its motto is, “This will all be so great…if we don’t screw it up.”

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Up By Election Result 2020 Bjp Won Third Time From Tundla Assembly - Tundla By-election Result 2020: तीसरी बार भाजपा की झोली में आई सीट, 'राम लहर' में मिली थी पहली जीत

Up By Election Result 2020 Bjp Won Third Time From Tundla Assembly – Tundla By-election Result 2020: तीसरी बार भाजपा की झोली में आई सीट, ‘राम लहर’ में मिली थी पहली जीत

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NEW YORK — Speaking to VOA from his New York apartment, Dmitry Savchenko, 34, recalls the prosperous life he recently left behind.

"In Belarus, we had everything. My wife had several cafes. I had two businesses myself, some real estate, an apartment, a car," he said.

Savchenko and his family had never intended to leave their home. But in the last few months, for him and many other Belarussian citizens, what was once unthinkable became a dire necessity.

"We were faced with a dilemma: either go to prison or run and hide in another country," he said.

Long described as "Europe's last dictatorship," Belarus has been run for 27 years by Alexander Lukashenko. But in the run-up to the 2020 presidential elections, there was a sense among his opponents that he was politically vulnerable.

Savchenko says he has been apolitical his entire life, but in those months he, like many others, was "smelling change in the air," inspired by the caliber and diversity of presidential candidates eager to challenge Lukashenko's authoritarian rule.

Two months before election day, August 9, the hopeful Belarusian entrepreneur registered as an independent observer for the polls.

But Savchenko was setting himself up for a major disappointment.

On the day of the vote, Savchenko chronicled numerous irregularities in his precinct, which reached their climax with the members of the elections committee — which normally consist of regime loyalists — not letting the independent observers monitor the process in person. The elections committee members then fled the building with the ballots through the backdoor, escorted by the local police, Savchenko says.

Hearing hundreds of stories like Savchenko's from friends and family — as well as from independent media — ordinary Belarusians took to the streets. The country saw a rise of civic awareness unprecedented in its history. In Minsk alone, about 200,000 people came out for a peaceful protest on one of the post-election weekends.

And then the violence began.

Trying to drown people's enthusiasm, Lukashenko, who baselessly claimed victory with more than 80% of the vote, unleashed a wave of repression and violence against the protesters. Video and photo evidence of police brutality, as well as of demonstrators' mutilated bodies, made headlines around the world.

"Some of my friends participated in those protests," Savchenko said. "It was heart-wrenching to even look at them (after their release from jail)."

Those who appeared to have suffered the most were those sent to the infamous Okrestina detention center in the country's capital where, according to numerous detainee accounts, they were beaten and tortured for hours and not given food or water for days.

"Photos of the people who were released from the Okrestina detention center looked like the photos of people who came from war," Savchenko added. "And I denounce that. Because people came out (to protest) unarmed."

Savchenko says he is determined to punish those who so flagrantly abused the law.

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"I am gathering proof of falsifications of the election results, abuse of police authority. And I decided that I will bring them to justice no matter where I am," he said.

He sent the incriminating evidence he had gathered to BYPOL, an independent union of Belarusian ex-security officers whose mission is to keep a registry of crimes committed by the Lukashenko regime.

The state's crackdown drew international condemnation, but Savchenko says that did not stop the authorities from methodically targeting their critics after the elections.

"At first, the authorities cracked down on most vocal protesters, then on independent media. After that they started laying off state officials who — how should I put it — didn't vote for 'the right candidate.' Slowly but surely, they got to the people who were election observers," he said.

For days, he was harassed and intimidated, then detained and beaten by the police. The authorities threatened to send his 5-year-old son to an orphanage.

So he and his family ran. First to Moscow, then all the way to Mexico City, then to Tijuana, then to the United States, where they are seeking political asylum.

Washington-based immigration lawyer Elizabeth Krukova specializes in providing legal help to asylum-seekers from the countries of the former Soviet Union. She says there are many others like the Savchenko family.

"We've seen a number of these cases and a big increase in the number of cases coming from Belarus specifically," she said.

VOA spoke with several Belarusian asylum-seekers who arrived in the United States from the southern border following the post-election crackdown. They all spoke of intimidation, detainment and beatings by police back home.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows a steady increase in the number of encounters of Belarusian migrants by the southwest border CBP officers — from three in October 2020 to 123 in September 2021.

Savchenko says the main reason his family chose to travel to the U.S. instead of Europe is safety.

"There is a network of Russian and Belarusian agents that are active in the countries neighboring Belarus, as well as in some EU states," he said.

Belarusian officials demonstrated their relentless pursuit of critics when they forced a civilian Ryanair flight to land in Minsk last year and arrested an opposition blogger, Roman Protasevich. Another exiled Belarusian activist, Vitaly Shishov, was found hanged in a park near his home in Kyiv, an unsolved case widely seen as the work of Minsk's clandestine services.

John Sipher, the former CIA deputy chief of station in Europe, still views Europe as relatively safe but says the fears of dissidents are not groundless.

He says horror stories of kidnappings and murders spread among dissidents "like wildfires."

"If there are a few cases where Belarusians are hunted down or arrested, or brought back to Minsk, then it becomes a story that makes its way around that community," Sipher said.

With Russian troops now massing in Belarus and more on the border of Ukraine, experts see the region's authoritarian leaders becoming more collaborative, putting their critics at greater risk.

"Since Lukashenko's crackdown in the last year or so, he is going to be looking for more opportunities to assist (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and Putin is going to be looking for means to work with Belarusians on these issues," Sipher said.

Experts say whether an activist is in danger depends on how high their name is on the Belarusian KGB's priorities list. But it's a guessing game no one on the list wants to play.

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AIMIM threatens regional satraps in Bihar, Jharkhand

  ·        AIMIM won Bihar’s Kishanganj seat in bypoll with a huge margin, indicating a shift in Muslim voter mindset.

It aims to have 1.5 mn members across Bihar before 2020 assembly elections, and to field tribal leaders in Jharkhand polls.

    Asaduddin Owaisi-led All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has set its sights on the Bihar and Jharkhand assembly elections due next year, after winning the Kishanganj assembly seat in Bihar in the recent by-poll. The Telangana-based party lost Maharashtra’s Byculla and Aurangabad Central seats in the state assembly election partly because of its failure to sew a coalition with Prakash Ambedkar-led VBA. However, it won two new seats —Malegaon and Dhule City. “Right now, we are focussed on building our organizational strength," Adil Hassan, leader of AIMIM’s youth wing in Bihar, said over the phone. “We had 1.5 lakh members and that may go up to 5 lakh after the Kishanganj bypoll win this month, and our aim is to have 15 lakh members across Bihar by end of December. The voters in Seemanchal and other areas now have faith in Barrister (Owaisi), who has raised various issues of ours in the Parliament. Minority areas in Bihar are the most deprived for decades." In Maharashtra, the AIMIM contested 44 assembly seats and managed to win two, getting about 740,000 votes across the state. It was an increase from the 500,000 votes in the 2014 polls, where it contested 24 seats. In Bihar’s Kishanganj, AIMIM’s Qamrul Hoda won with a margin of more than 10,000 votes over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sweety Singh. More interestingly, the Congress lost its deposit, getting just 25,825 votes, indicating a shift among Muslim voters. The seat falls under Seemanchal, one of the most backward areas in the state. If AIMIM manages to make deeper inroads, it might change the state’s political landscape, especially for the Congress, which gets a chunk of votes from Muslim voters. Hassan did not say how many seats the AIMIM plans to contest in the Bihar state polls next year. Another AIMIM leader based in Hyderabad, who did not want to be named, said that in the 2015 elections, the party had contested just six of the 24 seats in Seemanchal, and plans to contest more than six seats in the 2020 state polls, adding that a decision will be taken on the final tally later for both Bihar and Jharkhand. “We will be contesting in Jharkhand for the first time, and will also put up tribal candidates," he added. The AIMIM would have won a few more votes had its alliance with VBA (an alliance of Ambedkar’s Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh and other caste/community organizations) gone through. The VBA, which managed to get significant deposits in some of the 250-plus seats it contested like Aurangabad Central, however, did not win any seats. The alliance between the VBA and the AIMIM broke in September, just a month before the Maharashtra assembly elections, as the former offered the AIMIM just eight out of the 288 seats. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the AIMIM had wrested the Aurangabad seat from the Shiv Sena, when the alliance between AIMIM and VBA was still intact. AIMIM’s Maharashtra head Imtiyaz Jaleel won the seat, and is the party’s only other parliamentarian apart from Owaisi. “The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and Congress would have won some more seats had the VBA and AIMIM not been in the fray. This very much goes much in line with what Owaisi said during the results of the 2019 general elections, that the myth of the Muslim vote bank has been broken. He said that if there is any vote bank, it is the Hindu vote bank (with the BJP)," said political analyst Palwai Raghavendra Reddy. Reddy added that the results of the Maharashtra state polls and the Bihar bye-poll will only help Owaisi and the AIMIM expand across the country. “He will go ahead with his plans, and it is to be seen how the opposition and Congress will deal with that situation," he weighed in.      

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By Election Results 2020 Live Updates: Bypolls Results Of 58 Seats In 11 States Today, All Eyes On Madhya Pradesh By Election Results 2020: In Madhya Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia defected to the BJP with 22 MLAs.

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Love Jihad or Interfaith Marriage ?

One controversial topic that has been in the news off late has been the issue of Love Jihad. State Governments like Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Haryana are looking to bring a Law against Love Jihad where according to them the boy is tricking the girl into a relationship and is then forcefully converting her to their religion. What we have seen in the Media and Social Media are extreme views. One side says there is nothing called as Love Jihad because every interfaith marriage is a personal choice of 2 individuals and the other side says that every or most of the interfaith marriages have led to forceful conversion of the girl's religion and then exploitation. The truth actually lies somewhere in between and for that we need to go into the history of the issue.

The first time we heard of this term Love Jihad was in the Uttar Pradesh bypoll elections of 2013 where Yogi Adityanath had brought this topic up. It didn't go down well with the people since it looked like he was trying to polarise and make it a Hindu Muslim issue which led to a horrible defeat for the BJP. After that we had the 2014 Lok Sabha elections which didn't have a mention of this issue as it was fought on the issue of development. Surprisingly, the next time we heard about Love Jihad was in Kerala where the Government said that Christian girls are getting forcefully converted and exploited. The interesting fact is the term Love Jihad was first coined in Kerala in the year 2009 but the media never highlighted it. The Indian Media's agenda to make it a Hindu-Muslim issue got thwarted when Christian Association for Social Action alleged Love Jihad being carried out against Christian girls. According to the Kerala Catholic Bishops Conference Commission for Social harmony and vigilance there have been 4000 instances of Love Jihad between 2005 and 2012. The High Court had also asked to investigate cases where forceful conversions are taking place after marriage. Things got serious where there were cases of Christian girls being forcefully converted and were sent to the IS (Islamic State). These cases were confirmed by our intelligence agencies where 21 girls were sent in one batch to the IS in Afghanistan. There are cases of Nimsha alias Farima and Sonia Sebastian alias Ayesha who were sent to Afghanistan and trained for Jihad where both had requested the Indian Government to save them and bring them back to Kerala. Now more cases are emerging in other states as well including Maharashtra where NCW (National Commission for Women) Chairman Rekha Sharma had met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari to discuss regarding the rise in cases of forceful conversions of girls.

Now knowing the history we can figure out that this is a very serious and sensitive issue. To completely deny it won't be right but at the same to brush everyone with the same paint isn't right as well. What we have seen on Media and Social Media is the right wing trying to term every inter faith marriage as Love Jihad which is not true. In fact inter faith marriages prove that our country is as liberal as any other country and one should celebrate that. So to use such an sensitive issue for political gains and counter the leftists won't be advisable. The leftists on the other hand want to live in denial that forceful conversion does not exist and that all interfaith marriages are done with consent of both sides which is also not true. It is a very serious and complex issue which concerns national security as well and it is best left to our Governments, Intelligence agencies and Courts to address this issue.

One needs to understand that forceful conversion after marriage is not just an Indian issue and the same has been seen in other countries as well for years. Whether it be in European countries, African countries and even in Asia this has been a common phenomenon. Look at our neighbour Pakistan where girls from minority religions are forcefully converted and exploited which is one of the reasons why the Indian Government brought CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act) in order to give shelter to those girls in our country. This has been a global issue for quite sometime and I am glad there is a debate on this subject in India. To know more on the global impact of this issue I would request everyone to read the article of S Gurumurthy in Indian Express where he mentions scholars giving examples on the same subject for which I have shared the link below.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newindianexpress.com/opinions/2020/nov/26/love-jihad-loving-for-religion-2228125.amp

Rather than trying to make this issue about a religion one needs to see it as a women issue and address it in that context. Just like in the case of Triple Talaq, it was seen as a women issue rather than a religion issue because once it is made a religion issue then all we will see is sweeping remarks and politics done about a religion from both sides and we will miss the issue completely. It is good that Goverments are bringing these laws in order to protect women from being exploited but it is the duty of the opposition and the media to make sure that the ruling political party does not go overboard by making it a religion issue rather than a women issue.

For Indians, unity in diversity has always been our unique identity in the world. We have produced a Pranab Mukherjee, Abdul Kalam, Dr S Christopher, Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Milka Singh and many others which shows what we are all about. There are some lumpen elements in our country who will continue to try to break the country and our society so it is our duty to make sure that we call them out regardless of their political ideology. When it comes to issues especially women we should all come together to give them the support they deserve regardless of their religion.

Jai Hind !!!

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Grand Alliance likely to contest Rajya Sabha byelection in Bihar

PATNA: The opposition Grand Alliance in Bihar is likely to throw its hat in the ring for the Rajya Sabha seat, which has fallen vacant upon the death of former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan, sources in the five-party coalition said on Sunday. The BJP-led NDA, of which the late leader’s Lok Janshakti Party has been a constituent, has fielded former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi, who will file his nomination papers on December 2. Paswan’s son Chirag, who currently heads the LJP and had burnt his fingers recently by going solo in the assembly polls, sought to downplay the cold-shoulder received from the NDA, saying “the seat belonged to the BJP. It is for the party to decide whom to field in the by-election”. Paswan had got elected, unopposed, in a bypoll last year necessitated by his cabinet colleague Ravi Shankar Prasad winning the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha seat. However, the RJD, which heads the Grand Alliance, had on Saturday indicated that it was not willing to give a walkover to the NDA. In a statement, the party’s spokesman Shakti Yadav had said “the BJP has acted out of spite (‘khunnas’) by denying the seat to the LJP. Had the late Ram Vilas Paswan’s party been allowed to contest, we would have considered supporting their candidate even though his party is not our alliance partner”. Meanwhile, sources in the Grand Alliance said the feelers have been sent to Chirag that he consider fielding his mother Reena Paswan from the seat and assured him of its “full support”. The offer appears to have put the 37-year-old LJP president in a bind as agreeing to the offer would be tantamount to burning his bridges with the BJP, to which he claims to remain loyal despite his brinkmanship, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for whom he expresses unreserved admiration. The LJP chief has been maintaining that his misadventure in the recent elections stemmed from the conviction that there was resentment in the state against Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his JD(U). Numbers in the state assembly, too, appear to be in favour of the NDA, which now includes smaller parties like VIP and HAM. The ruling coalition has 125 MLAs in the 243-strong assembly as against only 110 of the Grand Alliance. The opposition coalition, which hopes to rally along parties like Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM which has five MLAs, is of the view that such a contest would be a win-win situation as even if Reena Paswan were to lose, the NDA would end up angering a large section of Dalits. Sources in the Grand Alliance also said that if Chirag did not come out with a positive response, the coalition might still go ahead and field its candidate for the seat, engaging in yet another trial of strength with the ruling NDA. Filing of nomination papers will come to a close on December 3. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is December 7 and voting is scheduled on December 14.

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2020/11/29/grand-alliance-likely-to-contest-rajya-sabha-byelection-in-bihar/

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Explained: The politics of creating community-based corporations in Karnataka

Written by Johnson T A | Bengaluru | Up to date: November 28, 2020 8:20:28 am

The transfer to create an organization for the event of the Lingayat group has been assailed by the opposition Congress as a political tactic by Yediyurappa to consolidate the votes of the group, who make up 17% of the inhabitants of Karnataka and are identified to be ardent supporters of Yediyurappa and the BJP. (File Picture)

The BJP authorities in Karnataka has in current weeks introduced the creation of three new boards and firms to supervise the event of sure castes and linguistic teams — together with an organization for the event of the Lingayat-Veerashaiva group (a dominant caste to which Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa himself belongs).

The transfer to create an organization for the event of the Lingayat group has been assailed by the opposition Congress as a political tactic by Yediyurappa to consolidate the votes of the group, who make up 17% of the inhabitants of Karnataka and are identified to be ardent supporters of Yediyurappa and the BJP. An effort to hunt inclusion of Lingayats within the OBC class for reservations in central authorities jobs can be being extensively seen as a part of Yediyurappa’s try to extend his maintain on his group.

What’s the level of making community-based improvement firms?

The creation of firms and boards that oversee the event of caste and non secular teams are part of methods to win the political help of the members of those teams. The help of the Lingayat group, who predominantly reside in northern Karnataka, is essential to profitable practically 90 of Karnataka’s 224 Meeting seats.

The Lingayat Veerashaiva Growth Company, being arrange with Rs 500 crore funding, will goal to supply scholarships, loans and so on. The fast set off for its creation is the forthcoming by-elections to 2 Meeting seats (Basavakalyan and Maski)) and one in Lok Sabha (Belagavi) within the Lingayat belt in North Karnataka. The transfer got here on the again of Yediyurappa asserting the creation of a Maratha Growth Board — ostensibly to woo Marathi-speaking voters who’re a key section of voters in Belagavi and Basavakalyan areas.

Whereas the BJP has made an effort to unify all castes below the Hindutva umbrella, the technique has not been profitable past the coastal Karnataka area — the place the Hindutva issue and non secular polarisation has been a key influencer of polls for the reason that Nineteen Nineties, within the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition. The BJP is but to win a transparent majority in Karnataka by itself and has needed to depend on defections of MLAs from different events to ascertain its majorities in 2008 and 2019.

Does the creation of such boards and firms assist events win elections?

Forward of a current bypoll in Sira Meeting constituency in southern Karnataka – a territory the BJP had by no means gained – the BJP authorities introduced the creation of a improvement board for the Kadu Golla Scheduled Caste group with a fund outlay of Rs 10 crore. The micro-level caste technique helped the BJP win the seat for the primary time. Whereas all main events fielded candidates from the Vokkaliga caste (the dominant group in southern Karnataka who make up practically 15% of the state inhabitants) the BJP has been specializing in key sub-groups of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities.

Is there a bigger political significance to the creation of the Lingayat Veershaiva company?

The help of the Lingayat Veerashaiva group is taken into account the important thing that decides which get together will govern Karnataka. The group has been firmly within the nook of Yediyurappa and the BJP within the final decade. Within the 2013 polls, the BJP’s tally fell to 40 seats (from 110 in 2008) after Yediyurappa left the BJP and fashioned his personal Karnataka Janata Social gathering, which gained solely six seats within the polls however broken the BJP in as many as 36 seats within the Lingayat belt.

In 2018, when Yediyurappa returned to the BJP, the get together gained 104 seats. Forward of the 2018 polls, the Congress made a powerful bid to win the Lingayat Veerashaiva vote base by recommending to the Centre that Lingayats be accorded a minority faith standing.

The creation of the Lingayat Veerashaiva Growth Company is seen as an try not solely to consolidate Yediyurappa’s affect, but in addition to counter a requirement in some quarters for 16% reservation for Lingayats in authorities jobs and schooling.

How produce other events used this technique prior to now?

All events have created boards and firms for sub-sects in castes and non secular teams with political aims. Though a caste- and community-based socioeconomic survey was carried out throughout the 2013-2018 regime to establish the weakest sections of society and their numbers, the findings haven’t been made public as but they usually haven’t been used for implementing authorities programmes.

Whereas the D Devaraj Urs Backward Class Growth Company, the Dr B R Ambedkar Growth Company and the Minority Growth Company created a long time in the past are the principle entities for implementing welfare schemes, there are additionally dozens of boards and firms created for area of interest communities, a lot of which are sometimes disadvantaged of funds after they’ve been created. JDS chief H D Kumaraswamy introduced the creation of the Brahmin Growth Board at a price of Rs 25 crore and the Arya Vaishya Growth Board with an outlay of Rs 10 crore when he was the CM of the JDS-Congress coalition authorities between 2018-19. The previous Congress authorities headed by Siddaramaiah created a Bhovi Growth Company, a Babu Jagajivan Ram Madiga, the Karnataka Thanda Growth Company for the tribal Banjaras, and Vishwakarma, Uppara and Nijasharana Ambigara Chowdaiah Growth Firms.

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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Goes into Home Isolation

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Goes into Home Isolation

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The 59-year-old Chief Minister, who had campaigned extensively in the run-up to the November 7 bypolls to five Assembly seats, is undergoing home isolation.

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Political activities gain momentum in Basavakalyan

Political activities have gained momentum for the byelections to the Basavakalyan Legislative Assembly constituency where polling is scheduled on April 17 while counting of votes will take place on May 2. The last date for filing nomination papers is March 30. Scrutiny will be taken up on March 31 and the last date for withdrawal of nomination paper is April 3. The Assembly seat fell vacant due to the COVID-19 death of legislator B. Narayan Rao on September 24, 2020. Political activities in Basavakalyan gathered momentum following the announcement of candidates by the major political parties. The Congress has fielded Mallamma Narayan Rao, apparently in an effort to get sympathy votes following the death of Narayan Rao who represented the constituency since 2018 as party legislator. The Congress leaders are working hard to capture the seat in the byelection. Syed Yasrab Ali Quadri, who has been picked by the Janata Dal (Secular) for the seat, recently left the Congress to join it. Springing a surprise and ending days of speculation on the choice of candidate for the bypolls, the ruling BJP on Thursday announced the selection of its candidate, Sharanabasappa Salgar, a political greenhorn and outsider , for the seat. The choice of Sharanbasappa Salgar even surprised BJP local leaders as well as political observers as the party was expected to field a bigwig. The names of two-time former legislator Mallikarjun Khuba and BJP State vice-president and son of Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa B.Y. Vijayendra were names doing the rounds in BJP circles. However, now all the three contestants are first-timers. In the last 11 Assembly elections in Basavakalyan, the Janata Dal (Secular) won thrice in 1999, 2004, and 2013 elections. Basavaraj Patil Atoor emerged victorious on Janata Dal ticket in 1994 and 1989 and once on BJP ticket in the 2008 elections. The Congress won it twice in 1972 and 2018.

BJP aspirants protest

Meanwhile, BJP aspirants, who were trying to get ticket for the byelections from the segment, were furious after they learnt that all of them were sidelined in favour of an outsider, Sharanabasappa Salgar. As many as 16 aspirants who were denied ticket and their supporters and local BJP workers staged a protest in the city and Bidar MP Bhagwant Khuba’s effigy was hit with footwear before it was set on fire on Friday. The BJP workers along with disappointed aspirants held a meeting and took a pledge to not vote for the BJP in the upcoming bypolls. Source link Read the full article

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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Goes into Home Isolation

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh Tests Positive for Coronavirus, Goes into Home Isolation

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File photo of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh.

The 59-year-old Chief Minister, who had campaigned extensively in the run-up to the November 7 bypolls to five Assembly seats, is undergoing home isolation.

IANS

Last Updated: November 15, 2020, 17:21 IST

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Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Sunday said that he had tested positive for the novel coronavirus

. “I have…