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Congress leads charge against SIR, but struggles to appoint BLAs in UP to oversee exercise

December 03, 2025 9:35 am

Party has not been able to appoint Booth Level Agents in at least 17 districts, a leader blames “lack of motivation and energy among workers and district functionaries”

BJP insiders said the central leadership at a recent meeting in Delhi had considered nine candidates for the job — three each from Brahmin, OBC, and Dalit communities — before making its pick. (File Photo)

New UP BJP president name finalised, consensus sought at RSS-Yogi Adityanath meeting

December 02, 2025 9:44 am

Name likely to be announced this month; BL Santhosh, RSS leader Arun Sharma hold talks with CM, Deputy CMs, other state BJP leaders

Kanchanpreet Kaur, daughter of SAD leader Sukhwinder Kaur Randhawa who unsuccessfully contested the Nov 11 bypoll

Gangster links, fake identity trail: How an Akali Dal leader found herself at the centre of Punjab row

December 02, 2025 10:13 am

While Akali Dal projects Kanchanpreet Kaur for coming Zila Parishad polls, her legal troubles and alleged link to gangster Amritpal Singh Bath kick up a storm

Lunches, photo ops, phone calls: How new Madhya Pradesh BJP chief is navigating faction wars

November 30, 2025 10:50 am

Hemant Khandelwal’s first visit to Sagar district focused on bringing two key figures – cabinet minister Govind Singh Rajput and former minister Bhupendra Singh Thakur – on the same page

As AAP govt grants Amritsar holy tag, a look at its fraught demand amid Punjab’s shifting sands

November 28, 2025 2:15 pm

The demand for declaring Amritsar a holy city had never been addressed by successive governments led by Congress as well as SAD-BJP, even as it was part of Akali Dal's Anandpur Sahib Resolution

Pressure mounts to scrap J&K institute admission list; Omar asks why drag religion into this

November 25, 2025 10:00 am

Around 60 organisations come together to form an umbrella outfit, which is along the lines of the one that took up agitation over the 2008 Amarnath land

BJP’s first Bihar Home Minister: Rise and rise of Samrat Choudhary amid rows, shifting loyalties

November 23, 2025 6:40 am

The transfer of the key portfolio from Nitish to BJP for the first time in two decades not only reflected NDA's new power equations, but also signalled Choudhary's emergence as BJP's face in the state

How RSS mobilised behind the scenes in Bihar to give NDA a leg-up, hold on to Seemanchal lead

November 22, 2025 9:10 am

Sangh and NDA insiders say results show that voters, including Muslims, decided to “get associated with politics of development” on the back of a campaign message centred on “sushasan” and “vikas”

RJD down to one-third, but its dynast MLAs remain, buck new House trend

November 20, 2025 10:49 am

At 80%, NDA ally HAM(S) has the highest proportion of dynast MLAs with party chief Jitan Ram Manjhi’s clan accounting for three of its five legislators

A look at the new Bihar Assembly: 111 re-elected, MLAs twice as rich, with fewer criminal cases

November 16, 2025 2:27 pm

Not only are there more women this time, but the number of MLAs facing criminal cases has also dropped, shows an analysis of candidates’ election affidavits and data compiled by the Association of Democratic Reforms.