Posts by: First time voter
August 1, 2019
Indian Politics Round-up: July 2019
Mufti faces Twitterati’s wrath for blurring the lines between politics and sports Former J&K CM Mehbooba Mufti received heavy criticism for a tweet that purportedly[…]
July 5, 2019
Budget 2019 – Review
1. Total Revenue Receipts 2019-20 = 2248 KCr (12.85% increase over last yr numbers) 2. Major contributors are – Taxes (1652 KCr, 11.2%increase), Railways (214[…]
July 1, 2019
Indian Politics Round-up: June 2019
Delhi CM Kejriwal pushes for free bus and metro rides for Delhi’s women On June 2, Kejriwal revealed his plan to waive bus and metro fares[…]
June 22, 2019
Battle of Kohima: The forgotten face-off that sealed Allied victory in Asia
On April 4, commemorations were given to the fallen British and Japanese soldiers who perished in the Battle of Kohima, which took place between April[…]
June 1, 2019
Indian Politics Round-up: May 2019
Opposition and Twitterati mock Modi on his “cloud” and “digital camera & e-mail” comments PM Modi was panned by opposition members and social media stalwarts[…]
May 25, 2019
Lok Sabha welcomes 267 first-time MPs
The General Elections are now done and dusted, and we finally know the names which will form the nation’s 17th Lok Sabha. While this was[…]
May 22, 2019
Exit Polls 2019 – 5 States, 89 Seats Difference
Exit Polls 2019 – 5 States, 89 Seats Difference Kartikeya Goel, Founder, FirstTimeVoter.Org India waited for nearly six weeks – from 11th April 2019, when[…]
May 1, 2019
Indian Politics Round-up: April 2019
INC releases manifesto, attempts to woo voters with NYAY Congress’s manifesto for the General Elections 2019 focuses on financially empowering the extremely poor through its[…]
April 16, 2019
Delhi student’s unique initiative to spread awareness about voting rights
A school student, Kartikeya Goel, from the national capital has started an initiative to encourage first-time voters to register their names in electoral roll and exercise their franchise. Kartikeya (17),[…]
March 25, 2019
The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections
“Democracy lies at the very core of every Indian’s DNA”, writes Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala, one of the most well-known faces of election forecasting,[…]