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Jan 15, 2025 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia
The former MP is in a triangular contest against Kejriwal and BJP’s Parvesh Verma. The New Delhi assembly constituency is witnessing a fierce triangular poll contest. Sandeep Dikshit, former East Delhi MP and son of former chief minister Sheila Dikshit, is the Congress’s candidate against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and BJP leader Parvesh Verma.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia |Manisha Pande
Kalpana, wife of Chief Minister Hemant Soren, is contesting from Gandey assembly seat in Jharkhand’s Giridih. JMM’s Kalpana Soren made a parachute entry into politics in January, after her husband and Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren was arrested in a corruption case. In a short span, Kalpana has emerged as a prominent face of the party and the INDIA alliance.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia |Manisha Pande |Basant Kumar |Vivek Kaul
Newslaundry spoke to the athletes in Kurukshetra to understand the state’s sports policy and its limitations. Sports are embedded in Haryana’s culture, with politics over sporting facilities and athletes often taking the centre stage. In this episode of Another Election Show, Newslaundry halted at a village in Kurukshetra district to speak with the athletes about the state’s sports policy.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia |Manisha Pande
Students and professors of Maharishi Dayanand University spoke about the election, key issues and the influence of religious cults. In the last phase of Haryana polls, Another Election Show has reached Rohtak-based Maharishi Dayanand University, where we speak to students and professors about the key issues that will decide their votes.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia
Omar Abdullah, chairperson of the National Conference, has served as the youngest Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir. In the Lok Sabha polls, Abdullah conceded defeat in the Baramulla constituency in North Kashmir against independent candidate Engineer Rashid. Now his party is in the fray in the assembly polls. In this Another Election Show, Newslaundry spoke to Abdullah about the regional politics, the opposition’s tactics, terrorism, and the BJP’s policies on Kashmir.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia
Jammu Kashmir People’s Conference leader Sajjad Lone began his political career following in his father Abdul Ghani Lone’s footsteps of separatist politics. However, he eventually joined mainstream politics and has a strong influence in North Kashmir. In the upcoming polls, Lone is contesting from two assembly constituencies – Handwara and Kupwara. His party is contesting all 20 seats in the assembly polls.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia
Sheikh Abdul Rashid, popularly known as Engineer Rashid, has been the talk of the town ahead of the Jammu and Kashmir assembly elections. The Kashmiri politician, in jail for over five years in a terror funding case, won the Baramulla seat in the Lok Sabha polls with a big margin while he was still incarcerated. He was recently released on bail with his Awami Ittehad Party gearing to contest the polls.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia
In the assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir, set to take place after a 10-year hiatus, the political temperature has intensified with the entry of several local leaders previously accused of separatist leanings. Besides the candidates from mainstream parties like the National Conference and PDP, the polls will see Sheikh Rashid Engineer’s Awami Ittehad Party and several independent candidates linked with banned outfit Jamaat-e-Islami.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia
Santosh Singh, a senior journalist with Indian Express, has extensively reported on Bihar and its politics. In his new book The Jananayak Karpuri Thakur: voice of voiceless, Singh on the untouched aspects of the life and politics of Bihar’s first backward Chief Minister Karpuri Thakur. In this conversation with Newslaundry, Singh throws light on Thakur’s appeal that was beyond the political boundaries of parties and ideologies.
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May 30, 2024 | 
newslaundry.com | Atul Chaurasia |Manisha Pande
In this episode of Another Election Show from Varanasi, we sat with the students of the city’s Banaras Hindu University to talk about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s representation from the constituency, works of the central government and the local issues. Most of the students expressed resentment over lack of employment opportunities, while many criticised the “unparliamentary language” used by the PM.
