 "Best of BS Opinion: Mamata wins, climate change, corporate sector, and more")
It’s sad that climate change issues and job losses do not dominate elections as much as they should. Uddalok Bhattacharya sums up
Sunita Narain: The US stand on its emission reduction is ambitious and to an extent even fair.
Corporate India is less affected as yet. The epicentre of the problem in this round is the informal sector and the small and medium enterprises. How big is this chunk? Tamal Bandyopadhyay tells you. And --- to restore normalcy, the present vaccination rate of 3 million doses per day needs to go up by three to four times, say Ajay Shah and Amrita Agarwal
OUR EDIT SAYS: Neglecting the pandemic cost the BJP dear
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Never seen a more partial Election Commission, it did everything to help the BJP
Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who is quitting his job
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