The Odisha unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday alleged that the judicial inquiry report into the 2008 murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was willfully suppressed and that key files related to the case went missing during the final days of the previous Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government.
The next Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh are more than two years away. Yet political activity in the state is already beginning to take on an unmistakably electoral character.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday strengthened its position in the Rajya Sabha after securing all three Upper House seats from Madhya Pradesh and all four seats from Gujarat, with candidates in both states being elected unopposed amid a controversy over the rejection of senior Congress leader Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination from Madhya Pradesh.
Baraik’s visit to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey’s residence has sharpened political speculation, though he said his next move would be revealed later.
The latest gathering of opposition parties in New Delhi offered a reminder that the central challenge before India's non-BJP political forces is no longer one of arithmetic. It is one of credibility.
PM Modi has reportedly reduced the size of his convoy and encouraged EV inclusion as the government sharpens its austerity messaging amid global economic uncertainty.
The reported plan of the new BJP government in West Bengal to shift the state secretariat back to the Writers’ Building in BBD Bagh from Nabanna, may be presented as a pragmatic step and a return to heritage.
When the TMC government go t electorally ambushed on 4 May 2026, the focus could have immediately shifted to the immense potential that the newly installed government had in terms of meeting the aspirations of the populace in areas of income, employment and commercial endeavours.
The massive electoral mandate of the BJP stands in stark contrast to an almost broken and dysfunctional state that it inherits.
Senior BJP leader and Kazhakuttom MLA-elect V Muraleedharan sharply criticised the delay in forming a new government in Kerala, warning of a potential "governance vacuum" in the state.
