India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0008
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"K.T. Rama Rao","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"K.T. Rama Rao, widely known as KTR, along with his father K. Chandrashekhar Rao, led the movement to create a new state–Telangana to be carved out of the erstwhile state of Andhra Pradesh. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) is one of the few social movements that had successfully transitioned from a movement to a governing party. KTR as the working president of the TRS, remains popular in Telangana. He has served in the Telangana cabinet, looking after a diverse set of portfolios, including local government and information technology. Despite his personal preferences, he is acutely aware of caste, community, and religious consciousness in influencing a citizen’s life chances and attitudes.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114190472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0018
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Supriya Sule","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Supriya Sule, MP from Baramati and a senior leader of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), hails from Maharashtra’s most prominent political families. Her father Sharad Pawar, the NCP president, is one of the most senior national politicians in India. Supriya, raised by a Christian mother and a Hindu father, celebrates Christmas and Diwali at home with equal fervour. These shared religious traditions probably inform her secular ideology—she is comfortable with pluralism in faith. She is always on the move— travelling to her constituency and addressing voter’s concerns. Supriya has a confident outlook, a legacy of her modern, urban Mumbaikar identity.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130105457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0013
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Priyanka Gandhi Vadra","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who bears an uncanny resemblance to her grandmother, Indira Gandhi, in both her looks and mannerisms, surprised everybody by announcing her formal entry into politics only in 2019. She chose to take on the party’s most daunting challenge—to revive its organization and fortunes in the critical state of Uttar Pradesh, as the General Secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC). Even though she stayed away from politics voluntarily for many years, Priyanka understands the challenges Congress faces in Uttar Pradesh. She appears to have taken it upon herself to revive the Congress party’s fortunes in Uttar Pradesh, India’s largest state, and perhaps the only route available to the Congress if it seeks to return to power in Delhi.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114257896","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0006
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Jyotiraditya Scindia","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Jyotiraditya Scindia, recently of the BJP, is a member of the Indian parliament’s upper house. He is the scion of Gwalior’s royal family and joined active politics with Congress party upon the untimely death of his father, a Congress politician. He has held various portfolios as a minister in the cabinets of Manmohan Singh and was widely regarded as one of the senior-most leaders of the Congress Party. Facing limits to his politics in the Congress Party politics of Madhya Pradesh, Scindia switched to the BJP in 2020.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126721139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0015
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, an Olympics silver medalist and former army officer who has served in counter-insurgency operations, is an unusual politician. He did not enter politics, either working his way through the BJP’s organization or familial connections. Rathore’s entry into politics was smooth - the BJP was looking for newer and non-political faces in its campaign in 2014. He fit the bill. However, it did take him some time to adjust to the workings of Indian bureaucracy and party organization. As an outsider, he is forever seeking to challenge the system and make it better.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124799413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0009
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Madhukeshwar Desai","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Madhukeshwar Desai, the great-grandson of Morarji Desai, a Congress politician and former Prime Minister of India, is the vice president of the youth wing of the BJP. A lawyer by training, he is currently the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration (MCIA), a joint effort between the Government of Maharashtra, the international and domestic arbitration and the business community. Madhukeshwar sees the BJP is the only party in India in which anyone can aspire to rise to the top. He also believes in some of the central tenets of the BJP’s ideology, especially that all Indian citizens are treated equally and that the country should move towards a uniform civil code.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127179967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0001
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Aaditya Thackeray","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Aaditya Thackeray, 30, grandson of the founder of the Shiv Sena, the Mumbai-based Hindu nationalist party, has been active in politics for just over a decade. He heads the Shiv Sena’s youth wing and is a minister in Maharashtra’s current state government. Aaditya advocates for a more open and welcoming Mumbai without renouncing the party’s adherence to nationalism, supporting children of the soil policies, and a Hindutva, which speaks up for Hindus but is not against any religion.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114990783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0003
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Asaduddin Owaisi","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Asaduddin Owaisi is the president of the All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM), a Hyderabad-based political party, which represents Muslim interests. Even though AIMIM is a small political party, Asaduddin is perhaps India’s most recognizable Muslim politician. As a scholar of India’s constitution and an avowed constitutionalist, Asaduddin has remarkable clarity of thought on legal and political issues. He also presents nuanced advocacy of secular Muslim interests focusing his energy on education, employment, and economic welfare for Muslims—which need more attention than the community’s religious practices. Asaduddin also possesses a defiant, truculent approach when addressing poor legal thinking, especially by a government in power.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115641363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0002
Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Akhilesh Yadav","authors":"Pradeep K. Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Akhilesh Yadav, son of the founder of the Samajwadi Party—Mulayam Singh Yadav, was the youngest chief minister of India’s largest state Uttar Pradesh, at 38. He is currently the president of the Samajwadi Party and an elected member of India’s Parliament. Akhilesh is proud of the large infrastructure projects he completed as chief minister while ruing that he paid less attention to the caste and religious identities, which remain central for large parts of the electorate.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128383448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
India TomorrowPub Date : 2020-09-17DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0014
Pradeep Chhibber, Harsh Shah
{"title":"Rahul Gandhi","authors":"Pradeep Chhibber, Harsh Shah","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190125837.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Rahul Gandhi, the former president of the Congress party, has many interests, from cooking to scuba diving to martial arts, Rahul is a man of multiple interests. He reads widely, and his taste is eclectic, ranging from Middle Eastern history to Chinese philosophy. Rahul values his privacy but gets very little of it because of the security detail around him. Even though he is continuously surrounded by people and lives enclosed in a security bubble, he has a good sense of the issues faced by most Indians. Rahul Gandhi is a respectful, personable, and discerning politician, yet can be a staunch critic of the state when required.","PeriodicalId":394467,"journal":{"name":"India Tomorrow","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121242347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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