Supreme Court ruled Election Commission had the authority to conduct the SIR exercise, asserted poll body did not transgress any statutory or constitutional provision.
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Mohammad Ali is the recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia. He is a Senior Associate Editor at Outlook, based in Delhi. He tweets at @hindureporter
Regional strongholds are turning into besieged fortresses, facing the relentless advance of the BJP with the ambition and machinery to occupy the national centre almost alone
Invoking Syama Prasad Mookerjee and quoting Rabindranath Tagore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi framed the BJP’s West Bengal victory as both an ideological milestone and the start of a “fear-free” governance era.
Early counting rounds show BJP competitiveness across key pockets, but counting in the next few hours will determine whether this is a blip or a structural shift.
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Despite an all-out campaign push and aggressive central intervention, the BJP continues to struggle against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s entrenched welfare-driven political machine and social coalition in West Bengal.
From engineered regime changes to individual political migrations, the BJP’s rise since 2014 has been powered as much by defections as by electoral victories.
A veteran Al-Akhbar reporter rooted in southern Lebanon’s conflict zones, Amal Khalil was killed in an Israeli strike while on assignment, her death raising urgent questions about the safety of journalists in war.
As 152 seats go to polls in the opening phase, north Bengal emerges as the decisive arena where anti-incumbency, welfare politics and the SIR controversy converge to shape the electoral narrative.
The outcome of the upcoming Assembly elections will not just determine who governs these states, but will also shape how power is structured and exercised across the Union.
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