(Each week, Deputy Editor Liz Mathew maps the changing political landscape from New Delhi, focusing on power equations, policy moves, and shifts in alliances.) In the bipolar landscape of Kerala politics that the BJP is seeking to break, a rather important and yet overlooked role is that of major community organisations representing different caste and…
Barely two months after the RJD’s worst Assembly performance in over a decade which saw its tally falling from 80 seats in 2020 to 25, the party on Sunday appointed Tejashwi Prasad Yadav as its national working president, elevating him to the second-most powerful organisational position after party chief Lalu Prasad. The decision to elevate…
After four months on the road in Haryana, Congress leader Brijendra Singh, IAS-turned-politician, appears to be more assured now, with several party leaders and MLAs beginning to join his statewide padyatra or foot march, called Sadbhav Yatra. Inspired by Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi’s two-phased Bharat Jodo Yatra, the…
With parties across the country’s political spectrum staking claim to B R Ambedkar’s legacy by holding programmes on his birth and death anniversaries and promising to safeguard the Constitution drafted by him, the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has begun to focus on several social icons in a bid to win the trust of Dalit…
The Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) threat of a pan-Odisha protest against the alleged inaction of the BJP governments in the state and the Centre, and a last-minute cancellation of a January 23 all-party meeting, has brought back into focus the state’s dispute with Chhattisgarh over the Mahanadi, the state’s largest river considered its lifeline. Odisha,…
The year 2026 could belong to the Opposition — if it gets it right. The feisty Mamata Banerjee is not going to allow the BJP to walk all over her Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal. In Tamil Nadu, DMK chief M K Stalin still seems to be holding his…
4 min readNew DelhiJan 27, 2026 04:28 PM IST First published on: Jan 26, 2026 at 09:10 PM IST At a time when the Congress in Uttar Pradesh is attempting to strengthen its organisation ahead of the 2027 Assembly elections and improve its standing within a possible alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP), the exit…
With the Tamil Nadu Assembly polls barely a few months away, Chief Minister and DMK president M K Stalin used the occasion of Tamil Language Martyrs’ Remembrance Day to turn his party’s key ideological line into a poll slogan, casting the upcoming election not just as a political fight but also a civilisational contest. “The…
Protesting against the new University Grants Commission (UGC) regulations, as well as the alleged manhandling of Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officer Alankar Agnihotri resigned on Monday. A 2019-batch officer, Agnihotri is currently posted as Bareilly City Magistrate. The snap decision created ripples, sources said, with meetings continuing late into Monday evening to…
(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.) Along National Highway 12 in Beldanga in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, it is hard to miss a plot of land barricaded by police guardrails….