Politics

With the Election Commission set to publish the final electoral roll after the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal Saturday, lakhs of electors who had earlier been cleared by the statutory authority, the Electoral Registration Officers (EROs), are now again facing the possibility of being cut from the rolls because Supreme Court-appointed judicial officers…

As the election year approaches in Punjab, political mobilisation has moved to the streets with rallies, padyatras and village-level outreach programmes underway and parties seeking to stake an early claim to political space while signalling organisational muscle. The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has launched its Punjab Bachao rallies from February 17. The BJP held chaupals…

4 min readFeb 28, 2026 01:57 PM IST First published on: Feb 28, 2026 at 01:57 PM IST The Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) has roped in political consultancy firm I-PAC to handle its campaign for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, highly placed sources in the party said. Sources in both camps confirmed that…

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday announced the candidature of former DGP Rajeev Kumar, state Minister Babul Supriyo, Supreme Court Senior Advocate Menaka Guruswamy, and actress Koel Mallick for the coming Rajya Sabha elections. Polling for 37 Rajya Sabha seats in multiple states will be held on March 16. Five seats from West Bengal are…

(As Kerala gears up for the Assembly polls, every week, Shaju Philip decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) While the CPI(M), the lead player of the incumbent Left Democratic Front (LDF) in Kerala, is aiming to clinch the upcoming Assembly elections for third consecutive time, a debate has started…

Known in administrative circles as “strong headed”, 2007-batch West Bengal cadre IAS officer C Murugan has been engaged in open conflict with the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) since he was deputed as a Special Roll Observer in the South 24 Parganas and South Kolkata districts for the Election Commission’s (EC) Special Intensive Revision (SIR)…

On February 17, MLAs across the ruling and Opposition ranks in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly joined forces to raise the issue of “officials not responding to the phone calls of public representatives”, leading to Speaker Satish Mahana issuing fresh directions to the government to take necessary action in this regard. In the past two years,…

On February 17, MLAs across the ruling and Opposition ranks in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly joined forces to raise the issue of “officials not responding to the phone calls of public representatives”, leading to Speaker Satish Mahana issuing fresh directions to the government to take necessary action in this regard. In the past two years,…

Good investigations are built on proof — not guesses. Recently, a special judge named Jitender Singh strongly criticised the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over its case about Delhi’s excise policy. The judge said the case seemed to be built on “conjecture” — which means guesses — instead of solid evidence. He even suggested that…

With a special court in Delhi discharging Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia in the alleged liquor excise policy case even before a trial could begin, the AAP has been handed a much-needed political breather, especially in Punjab, the only state where the party currently…