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Achtung Baby: Thugs headed for Himachal Assembly!
In stark contrast to the cacophonous white-noise on meaningless lip-serviced stuff like good governance, cleaning up the polity and putting up cleaner candidates, almost ALL political parties have reflexively regressed to the tried and tested practice of putting some garbage into the electoral funnel once again. #Politics #India #Elections #SMS #Political Decoder
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Message to Kejriwal: Take the political class on at the grassroots
The current strategy to tilt at the top of the pyramid serves limited purpose. #PoliticsDecoder #Arvind Kejriwal #Panchayati raj #Jan Lokpal #IAC
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Electoral reforms: How secret is your ballot?
Has the lack of electoral reforms prevented India from choosing political leaders of its choice? #India #Elections #PoliticsDecoder #Election Commission #Electoral reforms #Right to Reject
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Does a disrupted Parliament mean electoral reforms are in the offing?
The Indian political establishment has strenuously opposed all attempts to clean it up but is there hope? #Lokpal #India #PoliticsDecoder #parliament #Electoral reforms
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Raj Thackeray is wrong, but Bihar is a worse offender
The Bihar police is perhaps responsible for allowing Raj Thackeray to return to his favourite platform of migrant-bashing. #PoliticsDecoder #Raj Thackeray #bIhar #Nitish Kumar #television news channels
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India has a long legal history of religious tolerance
There are not many cases reported of blasphemy in India. In my years as a sessions court reporter in the 1990s, I came across none, and most of the case studies in legal volumes refer to events 50 years or more ago. #DMK #Pakistan #PoliticsDecoder #AIADMK #J Jayalalitha #Blasphemy laws
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Is the religion of Marx now in self-destruct mode?
The fallout from the troubles of the CPI (M), including alleged murders in Kerala, and a violent strike in support of the alleged murderer, raises questions #PoliticsDecoder #Maoism #CPI(M) #Leftism #Kerala Communists
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Why Indian politics is a badly run family business
Dynastic politics was always a major part of the nation's politics but is it growing in India and making the second generation political leaders richer? #PoliticsDecoder #Rahul Gandhi #Supriya Sule #Dynastic politics #Dimple Yadav
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Happy Birthday Zardari: You need a good year
Zardari may not have academic skills, or interests, but he is first rate at understanding problems. Like all Indian prime ministers since 1991, he has been in power without a parliamentary majority for his party. #Pakistan #PoliticsDecoder #Imran Khan #Asif Ali Zardari
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Shiv Senas political path: From aggression to somnambulism
The party has taken a series of reckless, politically suicidal steps in recent times and it seems to have lost touch with the masses. #PoliticsDecoder #Bal Thackeray #Shiv Sena #Maharashtra