Capital Context | Kerala’s powerbrokers: The caste, religious outfits parties can’t ignore in poll season | Political Pulse News

(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…

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Tejashwi Yadav elevated as RJD No 2: Three challenges now define the test he faces | Political Pulse News

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…

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Hooda to Selja, why Haryana Congress is enthused, divided over ex-MP’s foot march | Political Pulse News

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…

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Decode Politics: The Odisha-Chhattisgarh fight over the Mahanadi river and why it is heating up again | Political Pulse News

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,…

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Decode Politics: Why Stalin has framed DMK vs NDA poll fight as ‘Aryan-Dravidian battle’ | Political Pulse News

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…

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Bareilly city magistrate says resigning over UGC rules, Shankaracharya row: ‘Anti-Brahmin campaign going on in UP govt’ | Political Pulse News

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…

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Poll Watch | Talks to form a minority-led front gather pace in Bengal. Should TMC be worried? | Political Pulse News

(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….

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