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Many people doubt whether it is necessary to hold the upcoming Assembly polls in the poll-bound states next month or postpone, as the Allahabad High Court has suggested. During the earlier round of elections this year, another court- the Madras High Court- had held the Election Commission “irresponsible” for conducting the polls during the pandemic. Some argue that, after all, there are precedents of postponement of polls earlier while former Chief Election Commissioner S.Y Quereshi thinks constitutionally it is not possible.

New Delhi: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) on Monday decided to postpone the ongoing Hero I-League 2021-22 for at least 6 weeks.

Successive surveys, month after month, have been recording sharp fall in BJP’s political fortune, and also a miraculous rise of Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh, especially since September 2021. The steep slide of the BJP led by Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh has necessitated two things to be done by the central party leadership led by Narendra Modi– putting brake on the accelerating fall of the BJP, and if successful, reversing the direction upward in the shortest possible time, since the election to the state assembly is just round the corner.

The greetings and the good wishes have piled up at the entrance alongside dire predictions. Among the second lot are those which are related to the coronavirus. The coronavirus morphed several times and its latest variant Omicron is mildly severe compared to the horrendous Delta and its predecessor ‘Wuhan’, both of which raged and killed like there was a powerful shortage of souls for the fires of hell!

In its desperation to prove secularism irrelevant and worthless the rightist forces. BJP and RSS, are creating a Frankenstein monster by making the police into an arrogant force that turns democratic institutions into a ramshackle.

New Delhi: Indian sports received a major boost on Sunday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh.

The current crisis in Europe of spiralling gas prices, coupled with a cold snap, brings out that the transition of any part of the world to green energy is not going to be easy. It also brings out the complexity in such a transition, that energy is not simply choosing the right technology, but that it has economic and geopolitical dimensions as well.

Akhilesh Yadav did an Aurangzeb on his father Mulayam Singh Yadav and grabbed the strings of the Samajwadi Party, which the father couldn’t thwart out of maybe filial reasons. But Mulayam’s younger sibling Shivpal Yadav could not stomach the usurpation and uncle and nephew broke ties—Shivpal Yadav formed his own political outfit, the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party.

Fancying on Prime Minister Modi’s ‘One nation-One poll’ idea, the Reserve Bank of India has launched the ‘One nation-One ombudsman’ programme. But unlike Modi’s poll plan, which could change the very nature and structure of democracy and governance in India, the reason for which it is vehemently opposed by opposition parties, RBI’s ombudsman might hardly make a difference to the remediation of complaints against banks and financial institutions. By all available indications, the one nation ombudsman will be as toothless as the paper tiger that its previous incarnation was.

As the year draws to an end, one can risk a little speculation about what we can expect from politics in India in 2022. As its national government crosses the mid-term point, BJP will fight the opposition in seven state elections.