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“No negative campaigning” is Kejriwal’s strategy against Modi brigade?

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In 2014, Kejriwal took on Narendra Modi, then prime ministerial aspirant, in the Lok Sabha election from Varanasi. In 2015 Delhi Assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Arvind Kejriwal launched no-holds-barred attacks on one another as the BJP and the AAP engaged in bitter electoral fight. Kejriwal returned as Delhi chief minister with the AAP winning 67 of 70 seats pocketing 54 per cent vote share.

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Delhi election : Is there No Face in Delhi BJP to contest against Kejriwal?

On January 13, a seven-hour-long meeting of the Delhi BJP’s core group at the residence of the party’s national president, Amit Shah, discussed the campaign strategy and candidates for the forthcoming assembly election in the national capital. An election the party is contesting without a chief ministerial face.

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Modi-Shah lost faith in Nirmala Sitaraman’s job capabilities ?

When a photo emerged of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, surrounded by his senior officials including Home Minister Amit Shah, meeting with economists this week, the internet had only one question: where was Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman? After all, the Union Budget is only weeks away, and surely it is the Finance Minister who needs input from economists at this point?

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After Soleimani’s killing, Future Tense In West Asia

Iranians around the world started 2020 with the threat of a war with the US hanging over their country. The unexpected killing of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards IRGC’s Quds Force, by the American military in Iraq has opened a dangerous and lethal round of confrontation between the US and Iran. Soleimani’s assassination might have been celebrated by the Donald Trump administration as a decisive step against the mastermind of Iran’s proxy wars in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere, but the prospects for West Asia do not look good from the perspective of the region’s geopolitics.

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Why Kejriwal is the biggest threat to Modi in emerging political equation

Arvind Kejriwal is a tough nut to crack for Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. The battle for Delhi will further prove that Modi Magic is on the wane despite the violent assertion of his Hindutva agenda. There is no denying the fact that Kejriwal is not the same brand as five years ago. Then, he was a political greenhorn but he was the one politician trusted by the public for not being a seasoned politician. He was seen as a man who had entered politics not to do politics but to change politics. He is still

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Deepika Padukone has done what no big male movie star has

Deepika Padukone has done what no big male movie star has by appearing at JNU on Tuesday evening in solidarity with students protesting against the insidious attack that rolled there for hours. Some accuse her of using the appearance to draw attention at a time when she has a new movie – “Chhapaak”. Doesn’t matter. She took a brave stand that she knew could impact her movie – there were instant calls to boycott it.

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JNU: A fierce desire for freedom and democratic dissent against authority (opinion)

Afierce love of freedom and democratic dissent are the sine qua non of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), study and struggle its motto. But why is JNU prone to dissent? What explains the fact that slogans popularised by former JNU students’ union president Kanhaiya Kumarbhukhmari se aazaadi, samantwad se aazaadi (Freedom from starvation, freedom from feudalism)are also the songs of JNU students struggling against the violence unleashed on January 5 on the campus by masked goons?

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