💃What is about the Adivasis of Jharkhand that prevents the saffron lotus from blooming or even taking root, unlike in the Adivasi-majority seats of Chhattisgarh and Odisha where the BJP did exceedingly well in the past few years?
Abhik Bhattacharya
Editor
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✅He belongs to the Kudmi Mahato community which constitutes 15 per cent of the total electorates.
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✱The saffron party, for the first time, tried its best to address Adivasis—but with a tweak. They evoked the issue of ‘Bangladeshi infiltrators’ in Muslim-dominated districts of Pakur, Sahebgunj and Dumka.
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🧔If the BJP manages to win Jharkhand, it will be the third mineral-rich state after Odisha and Chhattisgarh that will fall into the party’s kitty
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🌺While the BJP is trying to invoke the trope of “Bangladeshi infiltrators”, the ground reality paints a different picture pertaining to the historical significance of Muslim-Adivasi camaraderie
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ꦆTirth Nath Akash, Independent candidate in the Jharkhand elections from Bermo constituency, takes a bold step with legal affidavit to ensure transparency and responsibility.
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ꦜThis Jharkhand election will be a direct fight between the JMM and the BJP on Adivasi identity and the issue of infiltration
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The word 'abua' stems from Birsa Munda’s slogan of ‘Abua raj ete jana, maharani raj tundu jana’, meaning ‘let the kingdom of queen be ended and our kingdom be established’
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⛄In Indian politics, nostalgia is a powerful tool. But will the public’s loving memory of his father give Hemant Soren the advantage in Jharkhand’s assembly elections?
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🐽As the 81 assembly constituencies of Jharkhand are all set to go to polls on November 13 and 20, the high-stake battle of the Adivasi-dominated state found two planks- identity and infiltration- that are going to determine the fate of JMM and the BJP
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