The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 22nd August 2024

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Hindu Editorial Vocab On the contest in the Haryana Assembly elections

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Haryana is leaving no stone unturned to fight back a resurgent Congress, as the State is scheduled to have a single-phase Assembly election on October 1 for all 90 seats. The attempts of the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) to retain its position as a third player, and of the Aam Aadmi Party to emerge as one, continue, though a sharp polarisation (the act of dividing something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, into two completely opposing groups) between the two national parties appears likely. The BJP has to tackle double anti-incumbency as it has been in power in both the State and the Centre for the last 10 years. Cognisant (understanding or realizing something) of the headwinds, the BJP replaced then Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar with Nayab Singh Saini, in March ahead of the general election. Mr. Saini has been trying to pacify various interest groups, by reversing (to change the direction, order, position, result, etc. of something to its opposite) many decisions of his predecessor (someone who had a job or a position before someone else, or something that comes before another thing in time or in a series) and announcing new schemes. Sarpanches who are up in arms over the curtailing of their rights have got their expenditure limit increased for the gram panchayats from ₹5 lakh to ₹21 lakh. He has organised special camps, or ‘Samadhan Shivirs’, to address people’s grievances; and 1.20 lakh contractual employees have been ensured job security until the age of superannuation (money that people pay while they are working, so that they will receive payment when they stop working when they are old, or the payment they receive when they stop working). The creamy layer annual income for Other Backward Classes, that was reduced to ₹6 lakh by Mr. Manohar Lal Khattar, has been restored to its level of ₹8 lakh. A 10% horizontal reservation for Agniveers in various State government posts, and an expanded (to increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way) minimum support price regime for crops have been promised.

Haryana’s fundamental social cleft between Jats and non-Jats had worked to the BJP’s advantage in the last two Assembly elections. But the multi-caste alliance behind the BJP had begun to weaken by the 2019 Assembly election, with the farmers’ agitation ( to make someone feel worried or angry) and the Agnipath scheme undermining it further in the last five years. Additionally, the party is caught in numerous rivalries within the tent. The party’s majority in the Assembly itself is questionable. The Congress hopes to cash in on all this and turn around its own fortunes. Former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who is helming the Congress campaign, appears to have consolidated (made stronger and more certain) the party behind him. His focus is on unemployment and the crisis in the agricultural sector. The Congress still has the task of ensuring that its factional leaders remain united until the end. Communal polarisation, though at its lowest in the last 10 years, can still wreck the party’s plans. Despite a decline, the BJP managed to avoid a total rout in the Lok Sabha election. The Congress and the BJP shared the 10 Lok Sabha seats equally, while the Congress increased its vote share across the State. The outcome in Haryana will have implications for the Congress and the BJP at the national level.

Hindu Vocab Wordlist 22nd August 2024

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Polarisation: The act of dividing something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, into two completely opposing groups

Cognisant: Understanding or realizing something

Reversing: To change the direction, order, position, result, etc. of something to its opposite

Predecessor: Someone who had a job or a position before someone else, or something that comes before another thing in time or in a series

Superannuation: Money that people pay while they are working, so that they will receive payment when they stop working when they are old, or the payment they receive when they stop working

Expanded: To increase in size, number, or importance, or to make something increase in this way

Agitation: To make someone feel worried or angry

Consolidated: Made stronger and more certain

Polarisation: The act of dividing something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, into two completely opposing groups

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