ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
How will politics in South India pan out for 2024 Lok Sabha polls?
Seeing the electorate’s choice in Karnataka and Telangana along a North-South axis is to misread the anti-incumbency sentiment in these states. BJP is well in play for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in most of the South Indian states. The possibility of new alliances shaping up in states like Tamil Nadu cannot be ruled out either
ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
Assembly Elections 2023: The possibilities for national politics if exit poll projections hold
Assembly Elections 2023: The exit poll projections give both Congress and the BJP a reprieve. Congress can take heart if it wins Telangana and Chhattisgarh. BJP will be reassured by wins in MP and Rajasthan heading into 2024. But the split result forewarns a mad rush of freebie promises that is the antithesis of good economics
ASSEMBLY-ELECTIONS
How will assembly elections in five states affect BJP and Congress in Lok Sabha polls?
Lok Sabha elections are a different ball game but the temptation to read a larger impact to these assembly polls is very strong too. It is more likely that the issues which dominate national politics closer to March will influence the LS polls. But the 2023 outcome could have implications like who gets to lead the opposition or whether BJP could lose some sitting seats
BUSINESS
Jharkhand | Can the Hemant Soren government withstand this storm within the alliance?
Suspecting that Hemant Soren may be negotiating with the BJP for an alternative arrangement for running the government, the Congress decided to signal to the JMM chief that he cannot take the grand old party for granted
POLITICS
Union Cabinet Reshuffle | Prime Minister Narendra Modi focuses on performance and expands BJP’s social pyramid
Performance was one of Narendra Modi’s benchmarks for the induction of new faces and exclusion of others. At the same time, he has not lost his appetite for new experiments in governance
