Union Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that central armed police forces will remain deployed in West Bengal for 60 days after the elections, aiming to ensure peace and prevent post-poll violence.
The Red Corridor took root in areas marked by multiple state abdications and political failures. It’s fallout was the long stretch on which Maoist insurrection cast a shadow for almost six decades.
In a landmark session of the Lok Sabha on March 30, 2026, Union Home
Minister Amit Shah officially declared that Maoist extremism has been “eradicated” from the
country.
The most direct issue in the upcoming Assam elections is the BJP’s plan to implement the
Uniform Civil Code (UCC) immediately if they return to power. During recent campaign rallies
in March 2026, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma
have made it clear that a win for the party is a mandate for this legal shift. The central goal is
to replace religious personal laws with one common law for everyone, focusing specifically
on a total ban on polygamy.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday (March 5, 2026) unveiled two mascots, ‘Pragati’ and ‘Vikas’, for the upcoming Population Census 2027. Mr. Shah also soft launched four digital tools to be used during the exercise.
A day after inducting the PMK into the alliance, the seat-sharing talks in the NDA seems to have hit a roadblock. AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami’s visit to Delhi to call on the top BJP leaders has turned into a damp squib. BJP’s demand for 56 seats out of the total 234 constituencies and share in power seems to have irked the AIADMK camp.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Dilip Ghosh, who the party’s West Bengal unit had sidelined for months, was back in the spotlight on Thursday as he held a meeting with Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya and declared that he was ready to shoulder any responsibility assigned to him.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has directed the core leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal to constantly counter Trinamool Congress’ propaganda, which is spreading fear and panic among voters from the Matua community about their potential loss of voting rights following the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.
