While the BJP presses ahead with its efforts to put in place a new government in Manipur, the Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) has now publicly reiterated that Kuki-Zo representatives will not participate in the government – a position that complicates the party leadership’s reported move for installing a Kuki Deputy Chief Minister in the new dispensation…
(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.) On February 5, 2025, then Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh, facing a firestorm in the wake of the ethnic conflict between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo communities in the state…
While Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has asserted that the country’s sensitive sectors like agriculture and dairy are “fully protected” in the India-US trade deal, various quarters, including the Opposition parties and farmer groups, have expressed concerns that India has agreed to cut tariffs for agricultural goods and committed to buy more of…
By personally appearing in the Supreme Court in her case against the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has taken her war of attrition with the poll panel to a space no CM has gone before. Banerjee’s court appearance comes on the back of a series of…
While West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Supreme Court appearance on Wednesday against the Election Commission (EC)’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls created a stir in political circles, it was not the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo’s first courtroom battle. While Banerjee is now leading her party’s charge against the EC’s alleged bid to…
(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.) In Tamil Nadu politics, alliances are usually built by addition: more parties, more votes, more booths. But the AIADMK-NDA front taking shape ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections is being…
5 min readNew DelhiFeb 5, 2026 10:43 AM IST First published on: Feb 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM IST While India is headed to its first caste enumeration since Independence as part of the 2027 Census, many years ago, an ethnographer – a young Andre Beteille – who studied in a small village named Sripuram…
4 min readNew DelhiFeb 6, 2026 10:42 AM IST First published on: Feb 5, 2026 at 03:19 PM IST With Parliament continuing to remain in a gridlock — the Lok Sabha on Thursday adopted the Motion of Thanks to the President’s Address without the Prime Minister’s reply — the focus throughout this week has been…
Ahead of the oath-taking ceremony of the new Manipur government, Kuki-Zo Council (KZC) spokesperson Ginza Vualzong had publicly warned Kuki MLAs against joining a popular government without movement on their demand for a separate administration. Despite that, Kuki MLA Nemcha Kipgen took oath as Deputy Chief Minister on Wednesday. Vualzong, who has been part of…
3 min readNew DelhiFeb 6, 2026 03:28 PM IST First published on: Feb 5, 2026 at 08:52 PM IST Two days after Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ruled out an alliance with it for the coming Assembly polls, the Congress on Thursday said it would contest the elections alone….