Following Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s death in a plane crash on Wednesday morning, the question being asked is what happens to his Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and throws into uncertainty any efforts to merge the party and the NCP (SP) led by his uncle Sharad Pawar, with whom it contested the recent municipal…
4 min readNew DelhiUpdated: Jan 28, 2026 05:36 PM IST Moments after a private plane carrying NCP president and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar crashed during landing at the Baramati airport on Wednesday morning, a slew of party leaders and workers started trickling into its Delhi office. The mood at the NCP office on…
The sudden death of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a chartered plane crash near Baramati on Wednesday has not only stunned Maharashtra politics but also cast a shadow over the long-simmering efforts at reconciliation between the rival factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) led by him and his uncle, party founder Sharad…
3 min readLucknowFeb 15, 2026 05:49 PM IST First published on: Feb 15, 2026 at 05:48 PM IST Former Uttar Pradesh minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who quit the Congress about a month ago, joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) Sunday in the presence of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow, pledging to help the SP “form its…
A special court for hearing cases against elected representatives on Wednesday accepted a closure report filed by the state Lokayukta police in a case against Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and three others over allotmentment of housing sites of the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA). The court also held that the Enforcement Directorate (ED), which is…
On January 18, while launching a series of development projects worth over Rs 830 crore at a rally in Singur, the site of the failed Tata Nano manufacturing plant in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government for its “anti-industry” policies. On Wednesday, Chief Minister Mamata…
(As Tamil Nadu gears up for the Assembly polls, every Thursday, Arun Janardhanan decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) Tamil Nadu, where the Assembly elections are just a few months away, already has four neat columns on paper. The ruling DMK alliance, the largest one that has been winning…
In Uttar Pradesh, the resignation of Bareilly city magistrate Alankar Agnihotri in protest over the recently notified “equity regulations” by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the alleged manhandling of Jyotirmath’s “Shankaracharya” Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati in Prayagraj during the Magh Mela have put the ruling BJP in a tight spot as it faces allegations of…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s expected visit to Dera Sachkhand Ballan in Punjab’s Jalandhar on February 1 on the occasion of Guru Ravidas Jayanti is being viewed not merely as a gesture of religious outreach but also as a calibrated move aimed at wooing one of the state’s most influential, yet electorally elusive, constituencies – the…
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi cautioned about the “ills of the Congress”, the Haryana BJP has, with an avowed aim to guard itself from possible “Congressisation”, constituted the screening committees at the state and district levels to vet new entrants into the party fold. On Tuesday, Haryana BJP president Mohan Lal Badoli announced a…