Inflation, unemployment biggest election issues: Harish Rawat

India, April 15 -- Former Uttarakhand chief minister and senior Congress leader Harish Rawat (75) has been canvassing vigorously for his son Virendra Rawat, who is the party candidate from Haridwar Lo... Read More

Ecostani | What's on the mind of Indian voters as we go in for general elections in a week?

India, April 13 -- The CSDS-Lokniti pre-poll survey shows that unemployment, price rise, development and corruption were the four biggest issues in voters' minds. The construction of the Ram Temple in... Read More

Ecostani | Congress manifesto ticks off social justice, jobs, empowerment, but offers little on effective implementation

India, April 7 -- The Congress party last week presented a pro-poor and welfare oriented manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, promising payouts to poor, higher wages for workers and mandatory paid ... Read More

Ecostani | As ED action continues against opposition leaders during code of conduct, where is the level playing field

India, April 2 -- Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21, six days after the Election Commission announced the seven-phase schedule for the 2024 L... Read More

Ecostani | Billionaire Raj: India's rising inequality questions country's governance model

India, March 24 -- A report by the World Inequality Lab shows that 1% of the wealthiest Indians hold one-fourth of the country's wealth, higher than countries such as China, Brazil, South Africa and t... Read More

Ecostani| What does commissioner Arun Goyal's resignation before the 2024 elections say about the Election Commission?

India, March 10 -- All is not well it seems, in the Election Commission. Unable to curb electoral malpractices such as the use of muscle and power, it supported opaque electoral bonds (recently struck... Read More

Ecostani | Himachal imbroglio is a commentary on the Congress high command

India, March 5 -- Sometime in January, rebel Congress legislator Rajinder Rana complained to the Congress high command about the "high handedness" of Himachal chief minister Sukhwinder Singh Sukhu, in... Read More

Ecostani | A call to battle, and fight will be pitched

India, Feb. 26 -- India has a long history of all kinds of mashed-up alliances, sometimes with contrary ideologies, to garner votes. The 2024 election is one such poll where both the Indian National D... Read More

Ecostani | Jayant Chaudhary hopes that the NDA will help his party - and the BJP, too

India, Feb. 19 -- Since Jayant Chaudhary, president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a party with influence among Jats in western Uttar Pradesh, announced that he would be part of Bharatiya Janata Part... Read More

Ecostani | A national MSP law will be a tribute to MS Swaminathan

India, Feb. 13 -- The farmers are once again on the path of confrontation with the Central government. In 2020, they spent a year-long sit-in along Delhi's borders to protest against the government's ... Read More

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