Vikas Pathak

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Nagpur: BSP supremo Mayawati waves at party workers at an election campaign rally in support of party candidates ahead of Maharashtra Assembly polls, in Nagpur, Maharashtra, Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. (PTI Photo) (PTI10_14_2019_000254B)

The BJP’s widening social base

Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses a seminar on Skandagupta Vikramaditya at Banaras Hindu University on October 17, 2019. Photo: PIB/PTI

Hindutva’s attempt at rewriting history is futile

The Hindu Explains: The new 10% quota, its implications, and more

Veiled Indian Muslim voters display the indelible ink mark on their fingers after casting their vote at Mubarakhpur in Azamgarh district, in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. Residents in India's largest state were voting Saturday for the second phase of the seven-phased monthlong local election with repercussions for the whole nation. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Analysis: Muslim electoral irrelevance may soon be a thing of the past

Analysis: Congress benefits from going solo in Madhya Pradesh

In Madhya Pradesh, a rural-urban divide between Congress, BJP

Shivraj Singh Chouhan at State BJP headquarters in Bhopal. File photo.

Shivraj Chouhan steps down; decks cleared for Congress govt in Madhya Pradesh

Congress workers celebrating their party’s good show in the Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh elections, in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

Congress to form govt in Madhya Pradesh

“Madhya Pradesh today presents a picture of rural discontent that is cementing an amorphous farmers’ identity.” Photo shows farmers at a ‘72-hour satyagraha’ in Bhopal in 2017 to protest the killing of six farmers in police firing at Mandsaur.

A tale of two States: the differing politics of rural Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

Sachin Pilot campaigning in Tonk, Rajasthan

Rajasthan Assembly elections 2018: Pilot doesn’t have the going easy in Tonk

Training day: Officials show the functioning of EVMs and VVPAT machines in Bikaner.

Rajasthan Assembly elections 2018: State bereft of dominant poll narrative

Jat leader Hanuman Beniwal joins hands with Ghanshyam Tiwari at a rally in Jaipur.

Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018: A rebel threatens to unseat BJP in its Sanganer redoubt

Opportunities abound, Down Under

Dusty lanes: Congress leader Sachin Pilot campaigning at Ganeti, near Tonk, in Rajasthan.

Rajasthan Assembly Elections 2018: In dusty villages, Sachin Pilot strikes the right notes