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Urmila Matondkar, the Rangeela (1995) star who blazed across Bollywood through the ‘90s and after, is contesting as a Congress candidate from a difficult seat in Mumbai – Mumbai North. The area comprises a mixed population of linguistic and religious communities, uber luxe towers and swathes of slums, old East Indian gaonthans and suburbs, which have witnessed an exponential growth in the last decade and a half.

When Matondkar was negotiating Bollywood, BJP stalwart and present Uttar Pradesh governor Ram Naik represented Mumbai North in the Lok Sabha. Subsequently, her colleague and Bollywood star Govinda Ahuja, contesting on a Congress ticket, defeated Naik in 2004.

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Leaders are campaigning in full swing as we prepare for the next phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. And in some cases, the josh has tended to lean towards hate speech. So what is preventing the EC from taking timely action?

There’s a lot going on still, other than hate speech — like, whether or not the EC will change its decision about stalling Modi’s biopic until elections are over.

Tune in to The Quint's election special vodcast series Chunav Tracker, with Editorial Director Sanjay Pugalia to keep track of all the developments.

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A grateful nation bows each year on BR Ambedkar’s birth anniversary (on 14 April) to pay tribute to his tremendous contributions in the making of our Constitution. His advocacy inside India’s Constituent Assembly for the parliamentary form of government was brilliant, and is still considered legendary.

But in view of how poorly our Parliament has performed, we as a nation might do well to reconsider his arguments, so as to understand what is going wrong now.

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