The road to the 2026 Tamil Nadu Assembly election is anything but predictable. For decades, the state’s politics has revolved around the alternating dominance of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) and the All-India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK). In 2021, the DMK stormed back to power, winning 133 seats on its own and 159 along…
The Telangana municipal results are out. Yes, the Congress has won 1,347 of the 2,582 municipal wards and secured control of 66 local bodies across municipalities and corporations. On paper, that appears respectable. In reality, it is a sobering verdict — not a triumphant one. The polls were held across 2,582 wards in 116 municipalities…
When Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy announced last week that his government would introduce a fresh law to curb hate speech in the upcoming Budget session of the Legislative Assembly. The declaration—on the surface—appeared unexceptionable. After all, few would openly argue against penalising speech that insults religions or deliberately incites communal disharmony. Yet, context…
Politics, as every seasoned observer knows, is rarely about what is said in public and almost always about what is whispered in private. The theatre of Indian federal politics is particularly unforgiving, where symbolism often matters more than statements and timing can be more lethal than intent. Against this backdrop, a seemingly routine development in…
In the high-stakes theatre of Indian politics, relevance is often currency. And when authority begins to wobble, noise becomes a substitute for power. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s decision to amplify a vague, unverified news report about Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu’s alleged concerns over the Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission…
With the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government moving towards conducting long-pending civic body elections, Telangana has once again slipped into election mode. While Assembly elections determine who governs the state, civic polls reveal something deeper: the organisational strength, urban appeal, and future trajectory of political parties. For Revanth Reddy, these elections are not routine local contests—they…
Few political slogans have defined the Bharatiya Janata Party’s rise as sharply as its relentless attack on dynast or parivar politics. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, more than anyone else, has weaponised this narrative—projecting himself as the antithesis of inherited power, a leader who rose from the margins, armed only with merit, discipline and political instinct….
As a Political Analyst, I still believe the Constitution Matters A screaming headline in a local daily jolted me—not as a citizen alone, but as a political analyst who still naïvely believes that constitutional morality should matter in a republic. The report said Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy wants to seek the Congress high…
At some point, political rhetoric must yield to historical truth. Telangana today finds itself at that inflection point—especially after Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy’s latest claim that Christians, particularly in Telangana, should be “thankful” to the Congress and Sonia Gandhi for the creation of the state. It is a sweeping assertion, heavy on gratitude politics…
For decades, Kerala has been treated as a political terra incognita for the Bharatiya Janata Party—a state where the Communists ruled the roost, the Congress survived through alliances, and the BJP remained a peripheral force with vote share but no real power. That assumption has now been decisively shaken. The BJP-led NDA’s capture of the…
