Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP) would form a government in West Bengal after the 2026 Assembly election, Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday (June 1, 2025) said that the time of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s rule was coming to an end.
“Didi (Mamata Banerjee), your rule has come to an end. In 2026, Bharatiya Janata Party will form the government. Didi, I dare you to hold elections without violence and rigging, and the people of Bengal will ensure that you lose your deposit,” he said.
A delegation of 10 MLAs from the NDA, comprising 8 from the BJP, 1 from the NPP, and 1 Independent, met Manipur Governor Ajay Kumar Bhalla on May 28 to stake their claim to form a new government in the state. Led by BJP MLA Thokchom Radheshyam Singh, the group submitted a proposal to end the President’s Rule, imposed after the resignation of Chief Minister N. Biren Singh following 20 months of ethnic violence between the Meitei and Kuki Zo communities.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma led cabinet approved a controversial scheme to grant arms licenses to indigenous people in “vulnerable and remote” areas, particularly in Muslim-majority districts like Dhubri, Nagaon, Morigaon, Barpeta, South Salmara, and Goalpara. The policy, officially titled the ‘Special Scheme for Grant of Arms Licenses to Original Inhabitants and Indigenous Indian Citizens’, will targets areas where indigenous communities are minorities, especially near the Bangladesh border.
Several Muslim leaders of the Congress in Dakshina Kannada, right from booth-level to state-level, on Thursday, announced their resignations from their party positions in protest of the government’s alleged failure to contain the series of ‘communal murders’ in the district and sidelining community leaders.
Modi will lay the foundation stone for an ₹1,010-crore CGD project in Alipurduar and Cooch Behar districts and later address a public rally in Alipurduar, BJP leaders said
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit West Bengal on Thursday to lay the foundation stone for a gas distribution project and address a rally in Alipurduar
India’s flagship program to provide tap water to every rural household, the Jal Jeevan Mission, has faced increasing scrutiny due to allegations of financial irregularities and implementation lapses. Union Jal Shakti Minister CR Patil has responded proactively, engaging with MPs and overseeing investigations to address these concerns. The mission is currently set to meet its revised 2028 deadline.
Madhya Pradesh, once a Congress bastion, but now in doldrums is set to be restructured by the Grand Old Party in one of the strongholds of the saffron camp-Vidisha. Congress leadership must have detected chinks in the BJP armour in this area though Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan won this Lok Sabha seat by 8.2 lakh votes in 2024 Lok Sabha elections
The All India Congress Committee (AICC) announced Gogoi’s appointment in a press statement issued by party general secretary K.C. Venugopal.
The appointment was along expected lines since Gogoi, the deputy leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, won the Jorhat seat by defeating the sitting BJP MP by a comfortable margin.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (May 25, 2025) said the caste enumeration announced as part of the decennial census was a step towards his government’s model of bringing the marginalised and those left behind in every field into the mainstream of development
Addressing a conclave of Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers belonging to the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), Mr. Modi said the success of Operation Sindoor was a reaffirmation of the achievements the country had made in its push towards self-reliance, underscoring the accuracy and precision of indigenous defence technology.
As Vedan raps on stage, the crowd mostly comprising youngsters cheer him. And the lovers of his singer surge in number even if he is belting out his songs in a rally of party activists of CPI(M) in poll bound Kerala.
