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The free grains program has in part helped Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party to stay ahead of the opposition in the South Asian country, which accounts for nearly 30% of the world's low-income population. Indian officials are proposing to extend a free grains program well into next year's national election season, according to people familiar with the matter, a move likely to support Prime Minister Narendra Modi's reelection bid for a third term. [Extracted from the article]

The free grains program has in part helped Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party to stay ahead of the opposition in the South Asian country, which accounts for nearly 30% of the world's low-income population. (Bloomberg) -- Coming soon: Sign up for the India Edition newsletter by Menaka Doshi - an insider's guide to the emerging economic powerhouse, and the billionaires and businesses behind its rise, delivered weekly. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on a scheme developed by the Congress party of India known by its Hindi acronym NYAY under which it will hand out 6,000 rupees to poor households in the country if it wins power in the 2019 national election. Topics covered include action taken by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to address rural resentment, failure of the government to identify the poor and possibility for NYAY to become a reality in line with the electoral prospects of Congress.

The author argues that the schemes adopted by competing political parties, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress party, to give money to poor people in India, need rethinking due to the difficulty of identifying the poorest in the country. Topics covered include number of people in India who live in extreme poverty, outcomes of the schemes launched by the Indian government to help the poor, negative effects of the BJP and Congress' schemes and the cost of eradicating poverty in India.

The article discusses the national council meeting of the Indian political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held at Kozhikode, India, on 25 September, 2016. Topics include the BJP’s resolution to dedicate 2016-17, the Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya Birth Centenary Year, to the welfare of the downtrodden, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s earlier recognition of the country’s shift from poverty to aspiration, and the possible impacts of the pro-poor policy on economic reforms in the country.

The article reports that according to the political party Indian National Congress, Parliament's budget session had revealed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government's opportunism and authoritarian attitude, apart from its anti-poor policies. It mentions that the government refused to talk on sensitive issues like the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh. It also mentions that according to politicians Mallikarjun Kharge and Ghulam Nabi Azad, the government avoided legislative scrutiny.

The article looks at the April-May 2014 national election in India. The author offers a laudatory profile of Arvind Kejriwal, the candidate of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), outlining his background and discussing his political efforts to improve the lot of poor Indians. Topics include candidate Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the AAP's 2013 win in the Delhi state election, and concerns in the country about corruption and crony capitalism.

The article focuses on the alleged growth of segregation in some areas of India. According to the author, Muslims suffer greatly from segregation as most Muslims in Gujarat and other northern areas of the country belong to the poor. He states that segregation started in 1992, mainly due to the alleged political maneuvering of the fundamentalist political group, Bharatiya Janata Party. He adds that the country's common culture and values are being destroyed by segregation, particularly in big cities.