Rajeev Deshpande

After a successful career in medicine, Dr Jitendra Singh has been Minister of State (MoS) in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) since the inception of the Modi government in 2014. He talks to Rajeev Deshpande about elections in Jammu & Kashmir and the electoral narratives as polling for the 18th Lok Sabha concludes

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Welfare schemes and improved law and order have consolidated BJP’s social coalition in eastern Uttar Pradesh, reports

A week after the pilgrim belt of Mathura-Vrindavan voted on April 26, public opinion indicates the Modi-Yogi model has prevailed over local discontents and trumped a disorganised opposition, reports

The Congress campaign is stuttering at the end of polling for 285 seats with its key promises failing to strike a chord with voters and an isolated high command remaining out of sync with the party cadre

In what could be a pivotal moment in the election, PM links Congress’s redistribution stance to its pursuit of quotas for Muslims at the cost of OBCs

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