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India’s northeast has 8 states and together they send 25 member of parliament to the Lok Sabha. But are these parliamentarians heard in the parliament? The students of St Anthony's college, Shillong give an insight.

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With elections drawing close, political parties have released their manifestos, projecting for the nation their promises in the years to come. How many promises will would be kept, how many ignored, remains a moot question. The Congress Manifesto, titled ‘Hum Nibhayenge’, was released on 2 April, while the BJP Manifesto, titled ‘Sankalp Patra’, was released on 8 April.

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Politics can be unforgiving, but forgiveness has fit into YS Jaganmohan Reddy’s electoral calculus. The leader of the YSR Congress party and chief ministerial aspirant in Andhra Pradesh, has suddenly decided to “forgive” the Congress party and has said so in public.

Interestingly, he has chosen the last few days of campaigning in Andhra Pradesh, which goes to polls on 11 April, to invoke forgiveness. Why?

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Are environmental concerns ever top of the agenda as far as elections in India are concerned? Well, the good news is that (unlike previous elections), both leading national parties, namely, the Congress and the BJP, have separate sections related to issues such as forest, tribal rights and clean air, in their respective manifestos.

A cursory glance at their manifestos shows that while the national parties finally appear to allude to the green cause, the devil lies in the detail.

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