Kerala Chief Minister and CPI(M) Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan is leading the Left Democratic Front’s (LDF) charge on the hustings as the coalition seeks an unprecedented third consecutive term in the state assembly polls on April 9. Just shy of 81, he exudes confidence of a win, pities the Congress for being the ‘B … Read more
Sewage water overflows on Periya Kadai Street in Nagapattinam town. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Nagapattinam, an ancient port town with a layered history of cultural confluence — from the Nagore dargah to Dutch remnants and traces of early Buddhist viharas — faces a paradox. Despite its legacy and strategic coastal location, underdevelopment, fragile livelihoods, … Read more
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee waves to the gathering during the TMC workers meeting ahead of the State Assembly elections, in Kolkata. | Photo Credit: PTI West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Sunday (March 21, 2026) began her campaign for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency with a workers’ meeting. The meeting … Read more
TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said anti-incumbency in West Bengal, which was localised, has largely been obscured by the fallout of the SIR exercise, giving the party a distinct edge over the BJP in the upcoming Assembly elections. The journalist-turned-politician, who has been named one of the TMC’s star campaigners for the polls, asserted … Read more
Samarth Shamanur Mallikarjun, son of Horticulture Minister S.S. Mallikarjun, filed two sets of nomination papers to the byelection to Davangere South Assembly Constituency in Davangere on March 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Congress high command has finalised the names of its nominees for the upcoming bypolls in Karnataka. Umesh Meti, the younger … Read more
With the filing of nominations set to begin in about 10 days, the political theatre in Tamil Nadu is all set to have yet another show of lively, even acrimonious performances from different actors. This time the show may be, in certain respects, different from the previous ones, in view of reports of voters among … Read more
Several sitting MLAs and aspirants, who have been deprived of BJP tickets for the April 9 Assam Assembly polls, have threatened to contest as Independents, with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and State party chief Dilip Saikia reaching out to them to calm their ire, sources said. The recent induction of Congress leaders Pradyut Bordoloi … Read more
People, whose names have reportedly been left out in the post-SIR electoral rolls, gather to apply for inclusion of their names, in Balurghat, West Bengal. | Photo Credit: PTI The Election Commission of India (EC) formed 19 Appellate Tribunals for West Bengal to hear disputed case appeals rejected by the judicial officers who are disposing of the 60 lakh under-adjudication … Read more
Rahul Gandhi | Photo Credit: – Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will kick off his election campaign for the upcoming Assembly polls in Kerala on March 25 with a major rally in Kozhikode. The rally is scheduled to be held at Kozhikode Beach, marking the beginning of his campaign tour in the state ahead of … Read more
LDF candidate for Nemom Assembly constituency, V. Sivankutty filed his nomination at Vikas Bhavan for the upcoming State Assembly elections, in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Several LDF ministers, who are contesting in the upcoming April 9 Assembly polls in Kerala, on Saturday (March 21, 2026) declared assets of close to ₹2 … Read more
The committee’s recommendations come even as political parties in many States such as West Bengal have raised questions about the entire process and made allegations that the names of many genuine voters were deleted. File | Photo Credit: PTI A Parliamentary Standing Committee has asked the Election Commission to ensure that no genuine elector is … Read more
A sign installed in Pottalurani village demanding the closure of the fish waste processing units. | Photo Credit: N. Rajesh For the second consecutive time, the residents of Pottalurani village, which falls under Ottapidaram Assembly constituency in Thoothukudi district, have announced that they would boycott the election, as their long-pending demand for the closure of … Read more
Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee releases the party’s poll manifesto in Kolkata on March 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: ANI The Trinamool Congress has promised to bring medical care to the doorsteps of voters in West Bengal, as part of 10 commitments highlighted in its poll manifesto released by party … Read more
S. Ramadoss, Founder and President of PMK Kumar SS / The Hindu | Photo Credit: Kumar S.S. PMK founder S. Ramadoss on Friday (March 20, 2026) announced an alliance with V. K. Sasikala’s All India Puratchi Thalaivar Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam (AIPTMMK) and declared the two parties would jointly contest in the April 23 Tamil Nadu … Read more
V.D. Satheesan | Photo Credit: The Hindu Kerala’s Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan on Friday (March 20, 2026) said the United Democratic Front (UDF) has completed announcing all 140 candidates at the “fastest pace in its history”, asserting that the coalition would return to power in Kerala with over 100 seats despite “the sustained … Read more
BJP supporters greet Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma as he arrives in Guwahati on Friday, March 20, 2026, to file his nomination for the Jalukbari constituency. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the presidents of two non-NDA regional parties were among the top candidates who filed their … Read more
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma talking to media after filing his nomination for the Jalukbari constituency ahead of the Assam Assembly election, in Guwahati on Friday, March 20, 2026. | Photo Credit: RITU RAJ KONWAR GUWAHATI The last-minute alliance between the Congress and Raijor Dal has made the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) contemplate fielding … Read more
Fishermen pulling a mechanised boat to the shore at Puthiyappa in Kozhikode district, Kerala. | Photo Credit: K. Ragesh As Kerala gears up for the Assembly election, the State’s fishing community has renewed its call to political parties to address its livelihood concerns. Of the State’s 140 Assembly constituencies, around 40 are coastal, accounting for … Read more
Dindigul Collector S. Saravanan launches voter awareness logo ‘Dindu’ in the presence of election observers at the Collectorate in Dindigul on March 19, 2026. | Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan To commemorate the establishment of Slender Loris Conservation Centre in Dindigul and create voter awareness, Collector S. Saravanan on Thursday (March 19, 2026) unveiled Dindu, a … Read more
Election Observer Yeluchuri Ratnakara Rao and Returning Officer M. Prabhu along with officials inspect the polling booths in Thoothukudi on Thursday. | Photo Credit: RAJESH N Election Observers appointed for the upcoming legislative assembly election for Thoothukudi district arrived in the district on Wednesday. A review meeting on election preparedness was held on Thursday, in … Read more
Dindigul Collector S. Saravanan launches voter awareness logo ‘Dindu’ in the presence of election observers at the Collectorate in Dindigul on March 19, 2026. | Photo Credit: G. Karthikeyan To commemorate the establishment of Slender Loris Conservation Centre in Dindigul and create voter awareness, Collector S. Saravanan on Thursday (March 19, 2026) unveiled Dindu, a … Read more
There have been reports that the AIADMK will contest 165 seats, and the BJP 27 in the Assembly election. | Photo Credit: File photo AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Thursday night met the Union Home Minister and BJP strategist, Amit Shah, for finalising the seat-sharing arrangements for the April 23 Assembly election in … Read more
Ending the prolonged power struggle between the various factions and lobbies in the Congress that delayed the announcement of the full set of candidates, the party eventually thrashed out a formula and named its candidates for four of the Assembly constituencies in the district. Read | Assembly elections 2026 LIVE Tony Chammany The party chose … Read more
Puducherry, which saw its first-ever AINRC-BJP Government installed in 2021, gets its earliest opportunity to deliver a verdict on five years of the much-touted “double-engine” governance model when the Union Territory goes to the polls on April 9, 2026, to elect the 16th Legislative Assembly. The All India N.R. Congress (AINRC), led by four-time Chief … Read more
A view of TMC and BJP flags along a bridge in the Pattabuka area of Karimpur, in Nadia. File | Photo Credit: ANI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (March 19, 2026) announced candidates for 112 seats, which included three former MPs, but maintained silence on the candidature of Abhaya’s mother. On Thursday (March … Read more
Four of five recent defectors from Congress, including an MP and three MLAs, have found their way into the Bharatiya Janata Party’s list of 88 candidates for the April 9 Assembly election in Assam. Missing from the first list, released by the BJP’s central office in New Delhi on Thursday (March 19, 2026), are 19 … Read more
The Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) leadership led by State president Syed Sadikali Shihab Thangal has sought to quell internal criticism by ushering in a generational shift through its candidate list for the April 9 Assembly election. The announcement of candidates on Tuesday (March 17, 2026) surprised many, particularly critics within the party, as it … Read more
At a time when the opposition to the BJP has become fragmented or weakened across India, the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) in Tamil Nadu remains the most robust multi-party anti-BJP alliance, largely because of its ideological cohesion in a State with a distinct socio-political ethos and the seamless ability of its constituent parties to … Read more
MP Pradyut Bordoloi addresses the media after joining BJP in New Delhi on March 18, 2026. Photo: Screen grab via X/@PTI_News. After resigning from the Congress party ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, MP Pradyut Bordoloi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Assam BJP … Read more
TVK chief Vijay speaks at an iftar event organised by the party at Mamallapuram, near Chennai on March 18, 2026. Photo: X/@TVKHQITWingOffl Dismissing reports of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) likely joining the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for the ensuing Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu, party president Vijay on Wednesday (March 18, 2026) asserted there … Read more