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Is Andhra Pradesh’s data centre push a recipe for disaster?
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Cockroach Janta Party
Anger is not an ideology
If the CJP wants to take on entrenched political parties like the BJP, it must establish itself as an ideological project that attracts a stable social constituency while addressing socio-political issues.
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Tamil Nadu’s smaller parties once found shelter in the DMK alliance. After the election debacle, they are searching for leverage, visibility and survival, with the TVK government emerging as the centre of a new political landscape.
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MARATHA RESERVATION
The Maratha effect: Social justice under political pressure
Maharashtra is extending OBC-style welfare benefits to the influential Maratha community without the constitutional criterion of social backwardness, showing how organised caste pressure is shaping social justice policy and public spending.
Rushikesh Arun Patil
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