Tag: ELECTION

It may have been none months since they were voted to power , but even now 730 elected sarpanchs await official notifications to take charge.

As critical thinkers and politically aware students, we must not make the mistake of allowing the construction of a Left hegemony in the JNU campus.

The JNUSU elections are around the corner, here is an appeal by a young researcher who urges the student community to vote critically and wisely.

By Nicholas Allen, Reader in Politics, Royal Holloway. Boris Johnson has been confirmed as the Conservative Party’s new leader – and the UK’s next prime...

The disbanding of the Allahabad University Students’ Union is an attack on one of the oldest students’ unions in the nation.

Sexism inherent in Indian politics demeans and puts down women, recent attacks on politicians like Atishi Marlena from AAP point toward the deterioration in Indian politics.

WEST BENGAL / Arnab Roy, the election officer who went missing mysteriously has been found in Howrah after a sustained search.  He was in charge of critical duties in the West Bengal elections.

Democracy, for us, remains limited to a merely ritualistic act of voting every five years. We have no control over the parties; the candidates are imposed on us. We can at best 'choose' the 'lesser evil'. It is sad that all alternatives have already been branded as either problematic or utopian. Hence, we laugh at a fossilized Gandhi, or an impossible Marx. Or for that matter, Ambedkar, for us, is just a statue.

The elections constitute one of the biggest and most significant junctures in the life of a democracy. Here we take a glimpse through some of the significant concerns in the state of Andhra Pradesh.

PERSPECTIVE / The elections aren’t a transactional commodity and voters are not just vote banks that can be wooed with cash and liquor. How can voting be seen with ethical responsibility?