Can Sunil Kanugolu bring India’s Modi down, 10 years after helping him win? | India Election 2024

Can Sunil Kanugolu bring India’s Modi down, 10 years after helping him win? | India Election 2024

A small crack in one of the pillars supporting the world’s largest lift-irrigation project was the opening that Sunil Kanugolu was looking for as he shepherded the election campaign of the opposition Congress party in the southern Indian state of Telangana late last year. Up against the regional Bharat Rashtra…

India’s electoral bonds laundry: ‘Corrupt’ firms paid parties, got cleansed | India Election 2024 News

India’s electoral bonds laundry: ‘Corrupt’ firms paid parties, got cleansed | India Election 2024 News

New Delhi, India – It was a quick chain of events. On November 10, 2022, India’s Enforcement Directorate – the country’s premier agency tasked with tackling financial corruption – arrested P Sarath Chandra Reddy, an entrepreneur in the southern city of Hyderabad, on allegations of involvement in a liquor scam…

‘Fascism will not work in India’ says wife of arrested Modi critic | India Election 2024

‘Fascism will not work in India’ says wife of arrested Modi critic | India Election 2024

NewsFeed The wife of jailed Modi critic Arvind Kejriwal has condemned India’s ruling BJP for allegedly using law enforcement agencies to intimidate political opponents. The Delhi chief minister was arrested with a month to go before India’s election. Published On 31 Mar 202431 Mar 2024 Check out our Latest News…

Can the vote be rigged? Ahead of India election, old debate gets new life | India Election 2024 News

Can the vote be rigged? Ahead of India election, old debate gets new life | India Election 2024 News

New Delhi, India – As he launched the main Indian opposition alliance’s election campaign in the middle of March, Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at two targets: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whom he described as the “king”, and the electronic voting machines (EVMs) that the country uses to…

Rohingya in India accuse Modi of double standards on citizenship law | Rohingya News

Rohingya in India accuse Modi of double standards on citizenship law | Rohingya News

Kolkata, India – Muhammad Hamin has been unable to sleep at night since March 8 when the government of the northeast Indian state of Manipur ordered the deportation of Rohingya refugees. On that day, the state’s Chief Minister N Biren Singh – who belongs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya…

‘Dead democracy’: Will Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest unite India’s opposition? | India Election 2024 News

‘Dead democracy’: Will Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest unite India’s opposition? | India Election 2024 News

New Delhi, India – The arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by India’s financial crime investigation agency on Thursday night has triggered near-unanimous condemnation from the country’s fragile opposition, with some leaders warning of a people’s “revolution” against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Kejriwal’s arrest, weeks before the first round…

Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal arrested over corruption claims | Elections News

Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal arrested over corruption claims | Elections News

Kejriwal is a key leader in an opposition alliance challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP in elections next month. Delhi Chief Minister and prominent opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by India’s financial crime agency in connection with corruption allegations related to the city’s liquor policy, his party has…

Can India’s Rahul Gandhi defeat Narendra Modi with ‘unity marches’? | India Election 2024 News

Can India’s Rahul Gandhi defeat Narendra Modi with ‘unity marches’? | India Election 2024 News

Mumbai, India – Loud chants and songs on justice echoed around Shivaji Park in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, as thousands of people gathered at the iconic venue that had played frequent host to rallies by freedom fighters when the country fought for independence from the British decades ago. This time, the…

Just how big is India’s 2024 election? Find out in seven numbers | India Election 2024 News

Just how big is India’s 2024 election? Find out in seven numbers | India Election 2024 News

New Delhi, India – India, the world’s largest democracy, has kicked off its two and a half month long parliamentary election to decide who will rule the South Asian nation. On Saturday, the Election Commission of India – the country’s independent poll-conducting body – announced the dates for a democratic…

Bollywood ‘takeover’: Pro-Modi films swamp Indian voters ahead of election | India Election 2024

Bollywood ‘takeover’: Pro-Modi films swamp Indian voters ahead of election | India Election 2024

Mumbai, India – A grimacing police official, staring into the camera, declares her intent to publicly shoot dead “leftists” while attacking “left-liberal, pseudo-intellectuals” as well as students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), a left-leaning university space in the cross-hairs of the Modi government. Men in skull caps, the visuals intercut…