The Congress led United Democratic Front (UDF) has secured a comfortable victory in the State Assembly elections, gaining an absolute majority with 102 seats. The LDF managed to win 35 seats, while the NDA secured 3 seats. The UDF repeated the dominance it displayed in the 2025 local body elections in this assembly poll held three months later. Within the UDF, the Congress won 63 seats, the Muslim League 22, and the Kerala Congress 7. In the LDF, CPI(M) secured 26 seats, CPI 8...
THE results of the West Bengal Assembly elections clearly indicate that the people have mandated against the TMC’s limitless corruption, autocratic rule, and misgovernance. The citizens of the state sought the downfall of the TMC government, and the BJP has reaped the benefits of this public anger. During this election, an atmosphere of fear was systematically created through the SIR process under the Election...
The BJP-led alliance has returned to power in Assam for a third consecutive term with an overwhelming majority of seats. The fact that the alliance secured nearly 48 per cent of the total votes (BJP alone secured 37.8 percent of votes, contesting in 90 seats out of a total of 126 seats) despite widespread public...
WHEN Adam Smith’s opus in 1776 took an increase in wealth as the desideratum of a nation’s policy, he was not suggesting that the question of income distribution between different classes did not matter. Likewise David Ricardo was by no means unconcerned with an improvement in the living conditions of the workers. But Smith and Ricardo ignored income distribution to focus only on the size of a nation’s wealth (capital stock), which determined in turn the size of its...
The huge travesty that is the Greater Nicobar Project is back in the news cycle because of the visit there by Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi who assailed the Project terming it a scam and a ‘crime against natural and tribal heritage.’ The Union government of course refuted this with familiar tropes emphasizing development and the always handy ‘strategic, defence and national importance,’ argument. Hopefully the headlines will not just be momentary but herald a...
Technological development and innovation have been the driving force of human civilisation. With change in technologies, the production process, labour process and measurement of human contribution to social product undergoes change. The current phase of digital technology with AI as the emerging general-purpose technology is also going to radically alter the production process. Technological innovations either reduce the cost of production of existing...
On May Day, the world’s working classes once again stepped into the streets, not merely to commemorate their past struggles and wallow in nostalgia, but to confront the deepening contradictions of the present. From Santiago to Istanbul, from Paris to Manila, the red banners rose against a horizon darkened by war, inflation, and the tightening grip of capital over life. May Day did not unfold as ritual but...
In the forested plateau of Santhal Pargana in Jharkhand, a vast and violent transformation is underway. Beneath the hills and agricultural lands of this region lie some of eastern India’s most valuable coal reserves. Over the past two decades, mining of these reserves has begun through the development of three adjacent blocks in the...
AT the present stage of the attack on CPSUs, we must clearly understand the economic, political and ideological dimensions behind the public sector policy of the present NDA Government at the centre. The economic angle of the privatisation onslaught must be understood in the perspective of the continuously aggravating systemic crisis of capitalism that has gripped the entire capitalist world. As...
A convention of flood affected farmers organised by the AIKS state committee at Hisar on April 28 resolved to fight for permanent solutions to the repeatedly occuring floods in various parts of Haryana and other neighbouring states. Attended by more than 150 activists drawn from eight districts, the convention was inaugurated by AIKS Vice President Inderjit Singh who recalled the unprecedented flood devastation...
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Condemn BJP Government’s Disgraceful Position on Venezuela |
