The Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM’s improved showings in the Bihar Assembly polls last year and the municipal corporation elections in Maharashtra this month have caused unease in the Congress, particularly some of its Muslim leaders, who have accused the party’s top leadership of maintaining a “measured” silence on issues concerning the community. Over the last week,…
Two years after dropping him as its Lok Sabha election candidate from Jaipur, the Congress has appointed Sunil Sharma as the president of its Jaipur Urban District Congress Committee. Sharma was removed because of his association with The Jaipur Dialogues, a right-wing outfit that is known for, among other things, ridiculing the Congress party and…
A year ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections, the Sukhbir Badal-led Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has signalled a return to full-scale political mobilisation with a series of rallies across the state slated for February in what party leaders describe as an early start to the 2027 campaign. The move, finalised at a meeting of district…
A powerful four-time MLA who converted his K R Pura constituency in east Bengaluru, and its neighbouring regions, into a real estate fiefdom by allying first with the Congress and then the BJP in Karnataka, Byrathi Basavaraj was arrested on February 12 by the state Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in a murder case going back…
After the Congress completely ruled out any tie-up for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, the CPI(M)-led Left Front is on the verge of concluding its alliance talks with the Indian Secular Front (ISF) — a party founded by Furfura Sharif cleric Peerzada Abbas Siddiqui in Howrah district nearly five years ago. However, the seat…
(As Kerala gears up for the Assembly polls, every week, Shaju Philip decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) The battlelines for the coming elections to Kerala’s 140-member Assembly have been drawn with the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) and the Opposition Congress-led United Democratic Front (UDF) embarking upon…
Amid the fast-shifting political scenario in Maharashtra following the demise of NCP president and Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar in a plane crash in Baramati, the NCP brass huddled together barely a day after his funeral, deciding to hand over the reins of the organisation to his wife Sunetra Pawar, who is currently a Rajya…
Sharad Pawar’s public distancing from merger talks has cast fresh doubt over the possibility of a reunification of the two Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) factions, exposing divisions within the party and uncertainty after the death of Ajit Pawar, who had been the main link between the rival camps. Even as leaders of the NCP(SP) claim…
With the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) preparing for a leadership transition after the death of party chief Ajit Pawar, his wife Sunetra Pawar has emerged as the central figure around whom the party is attempting to reorganise itself. Her elevation would mark a shift from Ajit Pawar’s command style politics to a more consultative model,…
(Each week, the National Political Bureau of The Indian Express examines a political party and a leader, tracking their moves and explaining why they matter.) Sharad Pawar set the cat among the pigeons on Saturday morning when he said that the process of reunification of the NCP factions – disrupted by his nephew and NCP…