Two things stand out in how Kerala voted — LDF has matched UDF in its share of minority voters, and ever-smart voters of Kerala have set, says @_YogendraYadav
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@_YogendraYadav Counting of ballots in Puducherry delayed. Election Commission says counting has been slow due to the heavy load causing a server lag.#PuducherryElections2021
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@_YogendraYadav Defence Minister Rajnath Singh tweets out congratulatory messages to Mamata Banerjee as well as M.K. Stalin for their parties’ victories in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu.
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@_YogendraYadav Kamal Haasan maintains his lead in Coimbatore South. He has polled 1,189 votes more than BJP’s national women’s wing president, Vanathi Srinivasan. #TNElections2021
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@_YogendraYadav NDTV reports counting for Nandigram seat still on, contest between Mamata Banerjee and Suvendhu Adhikari too close to call. #WestBengalPolls
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@_YogendraYadav Kerala has given a verdict in favor of the LDF. But this is not the time to celebrate with great joy as Covid continues to spread, says CM Pinarayi Vijayan #keralaassemblyelection2021
@_YogendraYadav Today’s victory is the victory of the people of Kerala. People have stood by us. The LDF has won more seats than last time. This is our answer to our critics, says Pinarayi Vijayan
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@_YogendraYadav BJP national general secretary CT Ravi congratulates DMK on its victory in Tamil Nadu, says his party accepts the mandate of the people #TNElections2021
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@_YogendraYadav BJP’s E. Sreedharan, popularly known as ‘Metro Man’, loses to Congress’ Shafi Parambil by a margin of 3,859 votes in Palakkad constituency, according to EC #keralaassemblyelection2021
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@_YogendraYadav Himanta Biswa Sarma says he doesn't want to talk about who would become the next CM of Assam, as the decision will be made by the party’s central parliamentary board
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The perception of China as an adversarial, hostile and arrogant country is largely stereotypical and not based on looking at China as another culture. Like India, China too is a civilisation: Shyam Saran in conversation with @ShekharGupta at #ThePrintOTC
@ShekharGupta China has a 'visual' culture where the ideogram, image and word are important, but in India, the sound is important. Much of our history is oral, and this contrast determines the prism through which you are looking at the rest of the world: Shyam Saran at #ThePrintOTC
@ShekharGupta Exposure to China was something very new for me when I went to Hong Kong to learn Mandarin after joining the Indian Foreign Service. Previously I had no familiarity with the country: Shyam Saran in conversation with @ShekharGupta at #ThePrintOTC
Putin’s accomplishment will have been to accelerate the decline of Russia in general terms and quite probably the end of his attempt to recreate a former imperial rule, says defence analyst François Heisbourg @FHeisbourg at #ThePrintOTC
@FHeisbourg No Ukrainian government whether in place or in exile — should the Russians manage to overthrow it — are going to work with Russia. Ukraine is, in a way, the new Poland, says defence analyst François Heisbourg @FHeisbourg at #ThePrintOTC
@FHeisbourg [Belarusian President] Lukashenko will obviously remain beholden o Putin but he is trying to establish some sort of distance, says defence analyst François Heisbourg @FHeisbourg at #ThePrintOTC
We don't allow our kids to talk to a stranger from the balcony...but do you know who's talking to your child on the internet or on the phone?: author and columnist @chetan_bhagat tells @ShekharGupta at #ThePrintOTC
@chetan_bhagat@ShekharGupta Every child has a device in their pocket which is a gateway to their mind. Anybody with mala fide intentions can reach them...I feel we are not discussing it enough, says author and columnist @chetan_bhagat at #ThePrintOTC
@chetan_bhagat@ShekharGupta I don't compete with other writers. I compete for the attention of young people and how to take their attention away from apps like YouTube, Instagram, says author and columnist @chetan_bhagat at #ThePrintOTC
“Weaponisng of Punjab has happened in the past. But the quantum of weapons that is coming in now is certainly disturbing,” @capt_amarinder tells @ShekharGupta in #ThePrintOTC
“When it comes to national security, when it comes to securing Punjab, we are beyond political parties. It is the question of giving security to our people. India comes first. Other things come later,” @capt_amarinder tells @ShekharGupta in #ThePrintOTC
“The farmers' agitation has to end on an understanding. Any complication has to reach the negotiating table. Farmers don’t want any politicians to get involved, they have made that absolutely clear,” @capt_amarinder tells @ShekharGupta in #ThePrintOTC
@vikramsampath@ShekharGupta "Western historians tell us Aurangzeb was a peace loving individual & protected more temples than he destroyed. This leads to a backlash from people who don't know how to respond intellectually so their responses get violent," @vikramsampath to @ShekharGupta in #ThePrintOTC
@vikramsampath@ShekharGupta “Savarkar has hardly been academically analysed or studied. I am amazed by the singular lack of academic interest in him among historians, his political opponents or proponents," says @vikramsampath, author of 'Savarkar: A Contested Legacy', at #ThePrintOTC
@vikramsampath@ShekharGupta “Post independence only one shade of ideological history — Marxist historiography — has ruled the roost. It ensured that anyone writing anything different was cancelled," historian and author @vikramsampath tells @ShekharGupta in #ThePrintOTC.