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Jan 9, 2025 | 
telegraphindia.com | Jaideep Hardikar
The Indian hinterland is crying for attention and help. Regional economies are tattered, dependent on Central funds and mercy. Reliance on doles is turning out to be the only panacea Jaideep Hardikar Published 10.01.25, 07:04 AM The Indian hinterland is crying for attention and, needless to say, help. Regional economies are tattered, heavily dependent on Central funds and mercy.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
nationalheraldindia.com | Jaideep Hardikar
With the BJP in the driver’s seat and Eknath Shinde firmly put in his place, it won’t be easy for either Shinde or Ajit Pawar to keep their respective flocks happy for longThe assembly election results in Maharashtra seemed to indicate a wave for the Mahayuti that nobody saw coming. There are plenty and more reasons to doubt the official outcome, and enough circumstantial evidence to validate the scepticism that this mandate was manufactured by unfair means.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jaideep Hardikar
Minutes before hanging herself to death in her home, 21-year-old Deepa Bhosale erased her playful videos and photos from social media, save a couple of the DPs. “She was anxious that there were only a few posts for the open category women candidates for Beed in the ongoing police recruitment drive,” her brother Ganesh says.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jaideep Hardikar
He’s not contesting this time because he thought his being in the electoral frame would have helped BJP.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jaideep Hardikar
Maharashtra CM, readying for polls, is betting big on a raft of cash payouts, some real, some promised. Against that are widely prevalent voter anger and despondencyAs Maharashtra assembly elections draw close, the BJP-Shinde Sena-Ajit Pawar NCP governing alliance has gone on an overdrive. The Eknath Shinde-led cabinet has passed over 150 decisions in the last four meetings, at a speed that would shame even ChatGPT.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Jaideep Hardikar
Farming is not paying & jobs are few and far between. Even meagerly paying govt jobs have the first preference among the youths in the working age over private-sector, contractual jobs Jaideep Hardikar Published 13.09.24, 07:25 AM In the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections, a group of young men in rural Maharashtra joked to me about their precarious situation. They are educated, they said, but unemployed and unmarried.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Jaideep Hardikar
We have had the scientific evidence and models about the exact locations where future landslides may occur with devastating outcomes and, yet, the Centre and the states refuse to act Jaideep Hardikar Published 09.08.24, 07:03 AM Based on different scientific databases we know which regions are in high-risk, landslide-prone zones. File Photo What is dreadful about India is that it refuses to learn from or act on environmental disasters.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Jaideep Hardikar
Budget hasn’t provided any relief on MEP or export duty. Will distressed farmers and traders speak as angrily in Maharashtra assembly elections, as they did in LS polls? Among those disappointed by the budget, are onion growers and traders. What they had hoped for was that the crop’s minimum export price and export duty would be removed or reduced. With their discontent having already cost BJP parliamentary seats in Maharashtra, it is likely to take a toll in the assembly elections as well.
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Jul 11, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Jaideep Hardikar
HINTERLAND || The intent is clear: give some cash and hope the women give you votes. This is particularly true of the rural and the urban poor women, caught in vicious debt cycles Jaideep Hardikar Published 12.07.24, 07:13 AM Representational image. File Photo What would you prefer as a policy — a dole or a dignified right? Mediocre governments end up doing a copy-paste job. The Eknath Shinde-led dispensation in Maharashtra is a case in point.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Jaideep Hardikar
Amit Shah 21 hours ago Raj Thackeray makes big claim on Shiv Sena symbol, says, ’told Amit Shah not to...’ livemint.com - Livemint • 21h Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Thursday claimed that he had told Union Home Minister Amit Shah ‘not to touch’ Shiv Sena … BJP 7 hours ago By taking oath in English, Jayant sends a message to his vote bank in the Hindi heartland thehindu.com - Anuj Kumar • 7h In the run-up to the Lok Sabha poll, a Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) veteran...
