April 22, 2024
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CAN BJP STORM THE SOUTH?
PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI HAS THE RARE ABILITY to visualise the big pic-ture and then, like an artist, proceed to execute it stroke by stroke. As he told india today in an interview last December, “When I start some-thing, I know the endpoint. But I never an-nounce the final destination or blueprint in the beginning. There is a progressive unfolding of my vision and plans.” On April 9, 10 days before the voting date in Tamil Nadu, the prime minister held a massive road show in Chennai that wended its way through T. Nagar in the heart of the city and, just as it was about to end, declared: “Chennai has won me over.”
West Bengal | Kurmis take a stand
Unhappy with the state and Centre for not granting them ST status, the community will fight independently in several seats they helped the BJP win in 2019