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T.K. Rajalakshmi

T.K. Rajalakshmi

T.K. Rajalakshmi, Senior Deputy Editor, has been with Frontline for 23 years. She analyses critically, at the policy and grass-roots levels, issues relating to labour, land, industry, gender and the social sector (health and education), besides keeping a sharp watch on national and regional politics and documenting from time to time violence against specific social groups.

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CPI (M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury.

‘BJP is the fountainhead of corruption’: Sitaram Yechury

CPI(M) general secretary says the electoral bonds scheme legalised political corruption and had the potential to destroy democracy.
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Jagdeep Chhokar.

‘There is a lot still unaccounted for’: Jagdeep S. Chhokar

The founder of Association for Democratic Reforms concedes that the disclosure of the electoral bond scheme will not reduce election expenditure.
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Lokesh Batra.

‘It was not about transparency at all’: Lokesh Batra

The transparency rights activist says the information from his RTIs shed light on the opaque workings of the electoral bonds scheme.
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BJP supporters wear masks of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a public meeting in Bikaner on March 27.

Rajasthan: Modi magic on test

The BJP won all 25 seats from Rajasthan in 2014 and 2019, but this time its MPs seem to be battling anti-incumbency.
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Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu at Darlaghat in Solan on March 10.

‘I don’t get rattled easily’: Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu

The Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh says the BJP cultivated the six rebel MLAs to cross-vote in the Rajya Sabha election.
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Leader of opposition in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, Jai Ram Thakur (right), congratulates BJP leader Harsh Mahajan (left) on winning the Rajya Sabha election. Shimla, February 28.

The murky political goings-on in Himachal Pradesh

Following the recent rebellion of six MLAs, the Congress finds itself on shaky ground in the only State it now runs in north India.
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Thomas Franco said that citizens’ faith in the SBI as the one bank they could rely on had been eroded following the Supreme Court ruling over the electoral bond scheme.

‘SBI’s request for extension in electoral bonds case is an eyewash’: Thomas Franco

Ex-president of the All India State Bank Officers’ Federation says SBI’s request for extension in revealing contributors is made under pressure.
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Hannan Mollah, Vice-President, All India Kisan Sabha

‘There is nothing called non-political’: Hannan Mollah

The AIKS vice president explains why the Samyukta Kisan Morcha did not support the breakaway faction’s “Dilli Chalo” call.
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Prabir Purkayastha speaking on Social Media and Constitutional Rights, in Hyderabad on March 25, 2018.

Prabir Purkayastha: Voice of resistance

Blending memoir with political history, Purkayastha chronicles his media career from the Emergency to the present “undeclared emergency” in this book.
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Youth Congress activists protest against BJP over alleged illegal and unlawful fund transfer through electoral bonds in recent years in Kolkata on February 16, 2024.

Electoral bonds verdict: Opposition cheers transparency win, while BJP raises concerns

As Supreme Court declares the scheme unconstitutional, BJP expresses reservations about donor confidentiality and retrospective disclosure.
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An aerial view of the Gyanvapi mosque and the Kashiviswanath temple in Varanasi.

Have courts forgotten the Places of Worship Act, 1991? 

It made August 15, 1947, the deadline to establish the status of religious monuments, but recent verdicts seem to be ignoring its letter and spirit.  
T.K. Rajalakshmi
The Panchayat Union Primary School at Karapakkam in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. World Vision India, in partnership with a private university, contributed in providing better infrastructure to the school. A file photograph.

Modi government’s crackdown on FCRA cripples civil society organisations

As prominent NGOs face suspension and cancellation of foreign funding licences, activists see worrying trend of government silencing critical voices.
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