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Uttarakhand has been historically known for political infighting, and this time, on the ve of the state assembly elections on February 14, the scenario is the same. Infighting has just triggered again with the January 8 announcement by the Election Commission of India for election to the 70 member Legislative Assembly of the state to be held in one phase. The ruing BJP has very high stake on account of infighting in the party that might have cost them the state, but for similar infighting in the opposition Congress albeit in a milder form.

BKU (Ugrahan), Punjab's biggest farmers union, will not support any political party in the fast approaching assembly elections, which means the Congress cannot crow about aggrieved farmers en bloc dumping the BJP and en masse voting for the Congress. What this means is farmers will vote with their conscience and that translates to everybody in the fray will be equally lucky.

For Government of India (GOI), enforcing its ban on illegal cattle smuggling to Bangladesh has become harder than before. The absence of even minimal official co-ordination between two major concerned state Governments of Assam and West Bengal, has emerged as a major handicap for the police and law enforcing agencies.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Left Democratic Front (LDF) Government’s decision not to impose night curfews and week-end lockdowns is a step in the right direction despite the surge in daily covid cases. It shows the State has learnt at least some lessons from past experience.

Election Commission has sounded the poll bugle for Assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Punjab, Manipur, and Uttarakhand. BJP is ruling in four of the five states except for Punjab. In Goa and Manipur, though Congress emerged as the single largest party, the BJP managed to form the government by dividing the other parties in 2017.

New Delhi: World Badminton Champion Loh Kean Yew on Monday exuded confidence of performing well at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open starting at the KD Jadhav Indoor Hall IG stadium here from Tomorrow.

New Delhi: Indian women football team’s head coach Thomas Dennerby says that players are training hard in preparation of the AFC Asian Cup India 2022. “Now, it’s just a few days left, and we are doing the final preparations. We are just fine tuning a few things for the team right now,” he said.

On September 1 last year, Allahabad High Court’s Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav held that the cow should be declared as the national animal of India. Urging the Union Government to bring a bill in the Parliament for the protection of cows, Justice Yadav also said that the government should declare cow protection as the fundamental right of Hindus.

The Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be not too worried about anti-incumbency. It is upbeat, like one political analyst put it. But political analysts are dime a dozen, each with a viewpoint different from the other. That being said, if only the perception did not prevail that the Congress is losing ground nationally while the Trinamool is spreading its wings to the all-India level. Yes, “if only.”

The rising COVID-19 cases and similar virulent, no holds barred election campaign has compelled the Election Commission of India to announce the Legislative Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh in as many as 7 phases between February 10 and March 7, 2022. Political sand-shifting on the ground level is an additional factor necessitating repositioning for both the ruling BJP and the opposition, the former has the highest stake and the latter the biggest hopes.