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Pushkar Banakar
Pushkar is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express and is based out of Delhi. He has over a decade of experience covering politics and foreign affairs. He writes on Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra politics. He has also been associated with I-PAC, where he has handled election campaigns in Goa, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. He tweets at @PushkarBanakar
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What Nehru told Parliament on Indus Waters Treaty: ‘Not at all satisfied but… cannot quarrel indefinitely’Subscriber Only
August 19, 2025 16:08 IST
Amidst Parliament impasse over the electoral revision exercise in Bihar, BJP president and Union minister J P Nadda slams Nehru govt over IWT, says he didn’t keep House in loop, then held a perfunctory debate
Tue, Aug 19, 2025
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Decode Politics: Why Telangana CM Revanth Reddy has taken Congress’s Backward Classes quota battle to DelhiSubscriber Only
August 06, 2025 16:54 IST
Revanth Reddy govt is demanding Presidential assent to 42% BC quota Bills passed by Telangana Legislature, even as HC has asked it to complete rural local body polls by September 30
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Court sets aside Telangana HC order staying disqualification of the MLAs, both parties claim they are ready if bypolls are to be held
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TDP letter to Election Commission says any such Special Intensive Revision should provide voters enough time, and that those in electoral rolls must not be required to re-establish eligibility “unless specific and verifiable reasons are recorded”
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