Yogendra Yadav

Yogendra Yadav writes: Parliament should discuss how to prevent electoral deforms, not how to bring electoral reforms

December 09, 2025 4:08 pm

The BJP with its organisational presence and support of local officials is better placed than the Opposition to rescue its loyal voters from structural exclusion. Besides, the design of the SIR and its implementation bias would lead to a targeted disenfranchisement of Muslims and other communities that the BJP finds electorally inconvenient

Yogendra Yadav writes on nation-wide SIR: Exclusionary exercise masquerading as reform

October 29, 2025 7:34 am

SIR has resulted in a worsening in all key respects: Sharp decline in adult-elector ratio, disproportionate deletions of women and Muslims, and continued presence of glaring inaccuracies in the voters' list. Latest announcement shows EC's unwillingness to learn from the Bihar experiment

Suhas Palshikar writes: Who stole my nationalism?

May 31, 2025 9:01 pm

A spirited defence of Indian nationalism must also confront how it was undermined from the start. Belonging without othering was always under siege — today's phoney nationalism has only finished the job

Yogendra Yadav: ‘The North and South should make a deal on population vs revenue over delimitation’

April 26, 2025 6:21 am

Yogendra Yadav, member, Swaraj India, and national convenor of Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan, discusses the challenges of delimitation, freeing up the process from bias and streamlining voters’ lists. The session was moderated by Amitabh Sinha, Science and Climate Editor

Yogendra Yadav guest at Explained.Live event today

March 28, 2025 4:58 am

The DMK has taken the lead in opposing the exercise and is trying to get other Opposition parties on its side to demand that the exercise be put on hold for another 25 years. 

By turning against our past, we handed democracy over to 'manipulators': Yogendra Yadav

January 06, 2025 11:33 am

Yadav was delivering the Kappen Centenary Public Lecture, titled 'Re-enchanting Democracy, Reclaiming the Republic', in Bengaluru on Saturday evening. He was "exploring ways to reclaim democracy".

Yogendra Yadav writes: 2024, the books read and the hope they inspire

December 31, 2024 4:26 pm

From Rahul Bhatia’s story of the dismantling of Indian democracy to Neha Dixit’s tale of empathy, a snapshot into the life of a fictional character who experiences the non-fictional events that plagued the nation, in 2024 truth found temporary shelter under the covers of some books

Yogendra Yadav writes: What kind of India do we seek?

December 03, 2024 9:49 pm

In Kachchh, a gathering of organisations opens up space to ask this and other big questions, and a daring to imagine alternatives to modern ‘development’

Palshikar, Yogendra write to NCERT chief: We’ll sue if you don’t remove our names from textbook

June 18, 2024 7:46 am

Their letter comes against backdrop of revisions in the class 12 political science textbook, including pruning of the section on the Ayodhya dispute

Civil society groups pledge support to INDIA bloc in elections

September 30, 2023 1:14 am

The Convention also pointwed to the economic recession and increase in unemployment and inflation, alleging that the BJP has in the meantime favoured its corporate “cronies’’ as like Adani.

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Congress Party's 'long battle' to unite the country

September 09, 2022 8:55 pm

The 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' by Rahul Gandhi is being billed by the party as the longest rally mounted in the country over the last century.

Today in pics: March 24, 2014

March 24, 2014 10:22 am

India will hold national elections from April 7 to May 12.

Yogendra Yadav launches AAP campaign in Maharashtra, hits out at Rahul, Modi

February 20, 2014 9:50 am

Launching his party's Lok Sabha campaign in Maharashtra, Aam Aadmi Party leader Yogendra Yadav lambasted Congress and BJP, saying that they were neck deep in corruption.

AAP MLA Binny launches fresh attack against Kejriwal

January 21, 2014 6:47 pm