With the end of one year of President’s Rule in Manipur less than a month away, the Centre is finding the path to government formation in the state increasingly fraught. While Kuki groups have made it clear that MLAs from the community will not join a new state government without a written assurance from the…
3 min readPatnaJan 19, 2026 09:38 AM IST First published on: Jan 19, 2026 at 08:00 AM IST As the RJD met for the first time since its Assembly poll drubbing on January 16 and 17 to chart its course for the future, party supremo Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya — who has fallen out…
(Each week, Deputy Editor Liz Mathew maps the changing political landscape from New Delhi, focusing on power equations, policy moves, and shifts in alliances.) Of the four poll-bound states, Tamil Nadu is the one where the political situation remains fluid and pregnant with possibilities, as several permutations and combinations remain in play a couple of…
In a statement, the BJP’s national returning officer for the election, K Laxman, said, “In all, 37 sets of nomination papers were received in favour of Shri Nitin Nabin for the post of national president”, adding that after the period of withdrawal “only one name, that of Shri Nitin Nabin has been proposed for the…
The largely rural Banga Assembly constituency in Punjab’s Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district, reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC), has once again become a mirror of the state’s shifting political loyalties. At the heart of this churn is Dr Sukhwinder Kumar Sukhi, a two-time Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA who is now a prominent face of…
As the BJP goes about setting its house in order in West Bengal ahead of the Assembly polls, it has brought in several experienced leaders from other states to manage its preparations. Over the past month, the BJP has deployed a host of “pravasi sadasyas” from other states — experienced senior leaders — to resolve…
He was one of the three youth faces launched by the CPI(M) in West Bengal during the 2024 Lok Sabha election as the party’s Gen-Next. Two years down the lane, one of them, 35-year-old Pratikur Rehman, is on his way out of the party. He, however, declined to comment on the reasons for quitting the…
(As West Bengal gears up for the Assembly polls, every Tuesday, The Indian Express’s Kolkata bureau chief Ravik Bhattacharya decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) Over the last decade, starting from the 2016 West Bengal Assembly polls, the countdown to polling day used to see coordinated campaign efforts between…
AS BJP’s Nitin Nabin takes charge as the party president, he inherits a war chest that has continuously grown over the years. The party’s annual audit report submitted to the Election Commission recently shows that it is sitting on cash and cash equivalents of almost Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 9,996.12 crore, to be precise) as…
4 min readBengaluruFeb 17, 2026 08:20 AM IST First published on: Feb 17, 2026 at 08:20 AM IST While the next Assembly elections in Karnataka, ruled by the Congress, are slated for 2028, fissures seem to have surfaced in the relations between allies BJP and JD(S) over the Opposition alliance’s chief ministerial face, with state…