PM Modi Woos Matua Voters In Bengal Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to voters in West Bengal’s Matua belt, promising freedom from what he called Trinamool Congress misrule if the BJP is voted to power in the state. PM Modi Campaigns In Matua Belt Addressing a rally in Thakurnagar, a
Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees Citizenship Request: Why India Keeps Them Stateless Despite 35 Years The immediate trigger is Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to grant citizenship to long-term Sri Lankan Tamil refugees living in India for decades. Nearly one lakh people who fled the civil war in the […]
Protests have become the new “veto power” in India. If you can mobilize a few thousand loud, persistent protestors, you can often stall or kill a policy — regardless of whether it benefits the larger public. So yes, it’s easy to organise protests in India — but it’s even easier for the system to surrender […]








