Maharashtra

Operations Lotus: BJP Seeks To Up Lok Sabha Tally, From 240 to 260 MPs

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Hereon, BJP’s emphasis will be upon Ajit Pawar as politics will revolve around whether the Congress is able to counter him in the Marathwada regions of the state

Populism At Play

Siddharth Singh

A year of many elections saw India’s freebie fetish push state-level expenditures beyond margins of safety

The Blame on EVMs

Virendra Kapoor

The Election Commission might protest that that the shrill assault on EVMs undermines faith in the machines

Eknath Shinde: The True Heir

Jyotsna Purandare

Balasaheb Thackeray’s Shiv Sena has passed into the hands of Eknath Shinde

Saffron Supremacy

Rajeev Deshpande

Devendra Fadnavis’ return as Maharashtra chief minister is a remarkable comeback story that transforms the state’s political landscape

The Hindu Quotient

Sandeep Balakrishna

The BJP campaign returned to its cultural core and it paid off

Welfare Wins

Siddharth Singh

Judiciously implemented anti-poverty programmes make a big difference

Modi at Full Throttle

Rajeev Deshpande

The Maharashtra result marks a watershed for the state and bolsters the Modi government, validating its ideological agenda even as Jharkhand hails the rise of Hemant Soren