As the hearings for voters flagged for various discrepancies in their documents continue across West Bengal as part of the Election Commission (EC)’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, people from all walks of life – ranging from ordinary citizens to ministers, sportspersons to movie stars – have been queueing up for them in…
(Each week in the Backroom Brief, the National Political Bureau of The Indian Express examines a political party or a leader, tracking their moves and explaining why they matter.) On February 8, 2025, as he flipped through news channels, Arvind Kejriwal watched as Delhi’s reins slowly slipped out of his hand. Kejriwal, who was at the…
Last month, veteran technocrat and BJP leader E Sreedharan revived his earlier proposal for a high speed rail corridor linking the northern and southern ends of Kerala, claiming that this project worth Rs 1 lakh crore was under consideration by the BJP-led central government. Days later, the Pinarayi Vijayan Cabinet gave an in-principle approval for a Regional…
Amid the Election Commission (EC)’s ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, the Opposition parties have been up in arms over the contentious exercise, alleging that a section of voters are being targeted for “deletion” of their names in the rolls. Already, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West…
Out on bail in the 2022 teacher recruitment scam case, former West Bengal education minister and suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Partha Chatterjee appears to be on the verge of a political comeback, just weeks ahead of the Assembly elections. Speculations surrounding the sitting TMC MLA from Behala Paschim in Kolkata are rife after he…
(A weekly analysis of politics, policy and the economy, from the National Bureau of The Indian Express.) Three of four states headed for elections this year will receive a higher share of the Union taxes and duties as recommended by the 16th Finance Commission, bringing them an additional amount of Rs 9,234 crore during the…
Over a span of two months in Punjab, former Amritsar East MLA Navjot Kaur Sidhu was first suspended from the Congress in December, before she quit the party on January 31 only to be expelled days later, as announced by All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Bhupesh Baghel Friday. While her husband and cricketer-turned-politician…
Two months before elections to the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC), fissures within the ruling coalition have widened, with allies BJP and TIPRA Motha finding themselves at odds. While neither side has publicly cited a major ideological break, a long-simmering debate over the official script of Kokborok — the lingua franca of most…
With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections due early next year, the growing visibility of Azad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) chief and Nagina MP Chandra Shekhar Aazad through a series of high-attendance rallies across the state has attracted the attention of the ruling BJP and the Opposition alike. Aazad addressed a large public rally in Kannauj…
THE PRIME Minister’s Office (PMO) has told the Lok Sabha Secretariat that Parliament questions and matters related to PM CARES Fund, the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) and the National Defence Fund (NDF) are not admissible under rules related to the conduct of business in Lok Sabha, The Indian Express has learnt. It is…