Nitish Kumar’s decision to step away from the Chief Minister’s chair and move to the Rajya Sabha could open a significant political opportunity for the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) to reclaim the broader “social justice” space in Bihar — at a time the party finds itself at an electoral low with just 25 seats in…
In the month since he has taken charge as Manipur’s new Chief Minister, Yumnam Khemchand Singh’s primary focus has been on outreach and reconciliation in the bruised and divided state, even as his government is yet to be fully formed and find its feet. Khemchand was sworn in on February 4, one year after his…
(As Kerala gears up for the Assembly polls, every week, Shaju Philip decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) As Kerala heads to the Assembly elections slated for next month, the ruling CPI(M)-led Left Democratic Front (LDF) is leveraging its achievements over the past decade in power to fend off…
4 min readPatnaMar 6, 2026 10:08 PM IST First published on: Mar 6, 2026 at 09:17 PM IST A day after he filed his nomination for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, clearing the decks for a successor, possibly from the BJP, Bihar Chief Minister and JD(U) president Nitish Kumar told his party he was “not…
(As Tamil Nadu gears up for the Assembly polls, every week, Arun Janardhanan decodes the electoral trends, political signals, and campaign moves shaping the contest.) While the alliance was rescued at the last moment, something more intimate appears to have been damaged: the warmth between DMK supremo and Chief Minister M K Stalin and top…
With the final voters’ list of West Bengal seeing over 63 lakh deletions or 9% of the total electorate and over 60 lakh voters (8.5%) being placed “under adjudication” following the Election Commission (EC)’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, the issue has snowballed into a major political row in the state ahead of the Assembly…
If the change of guard in Bihar, marking the start of the end of Nitish Kumar’s 21-year run as Chief Minister, came as a surprise, it was. Sources in the BJP and JD(U) camps say that it was only in the last week that the wheels were set in motion. The conversation between the allies…
Two months into his tenure as the Governor of West Bengal, C V Ananda Bose, whose mother tongue is Malayalam, got his first Bengali lesson through the ritual of “hatekhori” from three children in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Raj Bhavan on January 26, 2023. The age-old hatekhori tradition, through which children…
With Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announcing he will move to the Rajya Sabha, the BJP has finally stamped its authority within the NDA in the state. A junior partner in the alliance for decades, the BJP will for the first time have its own CM in the state. Kumar’s exit — the JD(U) has…
With Assembly elections in West Bengal round the corner, Governor C V Ananda Bose resigned Thursday citing “personal reasons”. He was replaced by Tamil Nadu Governor R N Ravi who had been at loggerheads with the DMK-led government in the state. As part of major gubernatorial appointments announced by President Droupadi Murmu Thursday night, Lt Gen…