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The spontaneous joy and enthusiasm among the Bodo people, notwithstanding the recent Bodo Peace Accord signed on 27 January 2020, needs to be interrogated in the context of “fractured identity” of Bodos and a perennial trend of “demographic challenge” that the history of the area is embedded in. Moreover, the changing contours of electoral politics in the wake of the Bharatiya

The Assam assembly elections continued the trend towards deepening of religious polarisation in the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s alliance strategy helped in retaining its hold over the ethnic base that had shifted to the party in 2016.

The structure of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi started taking shape on Monday with the appointment of five departmental heads and allotment of office spaces to officials of erstwhile north and east civic bodies at its headquarters.

The structure of the unified Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) started taking shape on May 23, 2022 with the appointment of five departmental heads and allotment of office spaces to officials of erstwhile north and east civic bodies at its headquarters at the Civic Centre here, officials said.The unified MCD formally came into existence on…

The challenge that the Congress faces at present is it has to fight not just internal dissidence and the BJP but deal with anti-BJP regional parties, who are no longer seeing it as a viable ally.

Rafiqul Islam (centre) won the Jania seat by a record 144,775 votes GUWAHATI: Badruddin Ajmal’s AIUDF has not only emerged as one of the biggest winners in the Assam assembly elections by winning 80% of the seats it contested, it has also ended its “political untouchability” since its emergence in 2005 by aligning with the 10-Party “Grand Alliance” led by Congress. AIUDF, which banks on Bengali-speaking Muslims of Assam, won 16 of the 20 seats seats it contested. The spectacular show...

Coalition of compulsion Updated: Updated: March 16, 2021 22:30 IST The BJP has been deepening its presence in Assam, making the regional parties more and more dependent on it Share Article AAA The BJP has been deepening its presence in Assam, making the regional parties more and more dependent on it The BJP’s ability to forge alliances with prominent regional parties during Assembly and Lok Sabha elections enables it to win votes from wide segments of society with the exception of the bulk...