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  Table of Contents - Mainstream, May 13, 2023

  13 May 2023

  * Karnataka electorate cast their franchise | P. S. Jayaramu
  * Crime and Indulgence | Faraz Ahmad
  * Wireless & 5G—Concerns for Health, Environment & Children | Bharat Dogra
  * Ukraine War & Why a Ceasefire Is the First Step Toward Lasting Peace | Phyllis Bennis
  * Believing and Making People Believe | Michel de Certeau

• Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 13, 2023

  13 May 2023

  Letter to the Readers, Mainstream, May 13 –19, 2023
  The results of the 2023 Karnataka state Assembly elections have just been declared and the Congress Party has surged ahead with a resounding victory over the unpopular BJP government. Many of the prominent figures of the BJP government have lost the elections. Sustained campaign work over nearly a year has paid off for hundreds of volunteers of the Congress party that focused on pro-poor and local issues and drew up a manifesto to address (…)

• Congress Party’s Comprehensive Victory in 2023 Karnataka Assemly Polls | P.S. Jayaramu

  13 May 2023, by P S Jayaramu

  by P.S. Jayaramu *
  May 16, 2023
  The results of the Karnataka Assembly elections, which were keenly watched both within the state and at the national level (including the NRIs) point to a comprehensive victory by the Congress Party, a humiliating defeat for the BJP, and a near extinction of the Janata Dal ( Secular). The results merit analysis.
  Let me first take up the case of the Congress Party. For the discernible observers, it is clear that the Party leadership at the state level (…)

• 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections have disproved the TINA factor | Faraz Ahmad

  13 May 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  May 14, 2023
  The urban elite inclined right wards economically but a bit embarrassed of the communal fascist side of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, keeps grumbling helplessly that There Is No Alternative (TINA) to Modi, even if his antics and acts are unpalatable to many of them. And they say that people vote Modi out of sheer lack of an alternative.
  The Prime Minister wrapped up his rallies, road shows campaign for his BJP with 19 (…)

• Karnataka election of 2023: empathy versus hatred | Radhakanta Barik

  13 May 2023, by Radhakanta Barik

  May 14, 2023
  Rahul Gandhi’s padayatra made him a humble and cultured politician of India who could start conversations with farmers, students, and workers. His humility and determination to fight the arrogance of the ruling power are getting public support. Karnataka has come forward to support the Congress Party and Rahul Gandhi to go for a long march in fighting communal authoritarianism. “Nafrat Ka Bazaar (The Market of Hate) has closed down and Mohabbat ki dukaaneien (Shops of Love) (…)

• Karnataka electorate cast their franchise | P. S. Jayaramu

  13 May 2023, by P S Jayaramu

  by P. S. Jayaramu *
  May 10, 2023
  The high voltage campaigning for the Assembly elections got over on 7th May. The candidates campaigned on 8th quietly going from door to door asking for votes. The 5.3 crore voters (2.66 crore male, 2.3 female, and 4927 others) have cast their vote. Thanks to the decision of the EC, the election in the state took place on one day, unlike the 2018 polls which were spread over two phases.
  Let me quickly take a look at the three contenders for power—the (…)

• Crime and Indulgence | Faraz Ahmad

  13 May 2023, by Faraz Ahmad

  It is getting to be a fortnight since the national wrestlers led by young women and girls, are sitting on dharna at Jantar Mantar, a stone’s throw from the new Parliament building in the Central Vista readied by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to welcome the accused in the wrestlers’ complaint, BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, the current president of the Wrestling Federation of India(WFI) to mock these girls’ charge of sexual exploitation by Singh and their demand to arrest this BJP (…)

• Prime Minister Modi Using a Religious Slogan, Jai Bajrang Bali, For Votes Offends Law, Gandhi and Ambedkar’s Vision and Mixes Religion With Politics | S N Sahu

  13 May 2023, by S N Sahu

  During the last decade, religious slogans are being raised with frightening regularity in India in a calculated manner to mobilise people for political and electoral purposes and intimidate those of minority communities and unleash violence against them. Several leaders do it but disproportionately most BJP leaders including Prime Minister Modi and those from Hindutva organisations are also engaged in such activities. These constitute an assault on secularism and secular values sustaining (…)

• Why does the President Legislate? | Gireesan and Bendre

  13 May 2023

  by K Gireesan and Chinmay Bendre *
  Between 1950 and 2021, a record 756 Ordinances were promulgated by the President of India. Except in 14 cases, Ordinances were generally promulgated when neither House of Parliament was in session. Data shows that 75 Ordinances were allowed to expire and 37 Ordinances were repromulgated. While critics have attacked the Government for fostering an ‘Ordinance Raj’ attitude, examining the underlying causes that have led to the increasing practice of (…)