On Election tours the journeys and diversions where we learn so much.

The thing about elections is that they need to be seen to be above board. Can we pls get explanation

The anti Muslim rhetoric is escalating and check out a toxic animated message on BJP’s Instagram account. I would not share it because it’s the sort of post that in the past had people
In jail. So this column asks if escalating communalism will help or hurt?

My column asks: Will absorbing the corrupt and escalating the communal help or hurt BJP? Today PM was at a public meeting where Praful Patel was present who got cases against him closed after switching sides. How do ideological RSS BJP cadre feel? deccanherald.com/opinion/will-c…

My column. Modi ramps up rhetoric in Hindi heartland as BJP struggles to regain its sparkle - Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/columns/uttar-…

#FromTheSidelines | After #NarendraModi ’s win in 2014, there was a phenomenal investment & upgrade in #BJP ’s physical infrastructure in #UttarPradesh . Today, it is the only State divided into six zones, each overseen by committed cadres. | Saba Naqvi

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So glad to see Scroll do this story. I have since 2019 been going on and on about this after finding a pattern of missing names in Muslim localities. This is not about competing politics but constitutional guarantees. I also cover this issue in intro of my book #SaffronStorm . In…

For all the troubles BJP is having the party infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh is phenomenal. I describe it in this column …

There are discontents within the larger parivar that could also be behind the low unenthusiastic turn-out in BJP bastions.

Hindu mobs are targeting places of worship belonging to Muslims in Western Maharashtra.

But a determined village shows how syncretic ways of living can still be revived

My ground reportage for People's Archive of Rural India

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My column. Modi ramps up rhetoric in Hindi heartland as BJP struggles to regain its sparkle - Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/columns/uttar-…

#FromTheSidelines | The #BJP is struggling to regain its sparkle in the Hindi heartland. Waning voter enthusiasm & challenging electoral feedback in key regions force #NarendraModi to shed 'Vishwaguru' image & escalate communal rhetoric. | Saba Naqvi

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Must mention that #ShahjahanSheikh was expelled by TMC for six year.s. Waiting for JD-S to do so with #Revanna and BJP with #BrijBhushanSharanSingh .

The story about the sexual predator grandson of a former prime minister. #Revanna

Mid election BJP and RSS giving assurances they will not end reservations based on caste.

Interesting. Read the tea leaves.

Simultaneously innuendo, invective for Muslims.

As #PoonamMahajan is not given ticket by BJP, the mind wonders to her father #PramodMahajan , central figure in bjp during the Vajpayee years. I knew him well and this is an extract about him from my book on the BJP. new version is now titled Saffron Storm. hindustantimes.com/books/excerpt-…

As #PoonamMahajan is not given ticket by BJP, the mind wonders to her father #PramodMahajan , central figure in bjp during the Vajpayee years. I knew him well and this is an extract about him from my book on the BJP. new version is now titled Saffron Storm. hindustantimes.com/books/excerpt-…

Ujjawal Nikam, the Mumbai lawyer, who admitted to cooking up the story about Kasab being fed biryani is bjp candidate from Mumbai. It pays to lie. No ticket for Poonam Mahajan