“The modern-day Republican Party … slips economic benefits to its funders and friends while pandering to the masses with non-economic benefits — bible, misogyny, xenophobia, the works. Much of this frame applies to the BJP as well.” ⁦@mrajshekhar⁩ thewire.in/politics/…

Brilliant, as usual, by @pramit_b Until we have more data, “informal sector will grow by assumption.”

One wonders if Sabyasachi Das’s “Democratic Backsliding” paper was rather mild in suggesting “… electoral discrimination against India’s largest minority group – Muslims, partly facilitated by weak monitoring by election observers.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3…

No Indian business has blamed any BJP govt policy — not even demonetisation — for its poor performance in the past decade. But L&T loses no time to blame the new Telangana Congress govt policy of free bus rides for women for poor metro ridership: www.indiatoday.in/am…

Seen this, ⁦@bainjal⁩? The next day, the ECI, relying on the DM’s statement, labelled Chaturvedi’s tweet as “false” and “misleading”. But voters like Bano, Anish and Shan countered the DM’s and the ECI’s claims, @sighyush⁩ reports. scroll.in/article/10…