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<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130813308,imgsize-312716,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/130813308.jpg" alt="NaMoshkar: Bengal debut for BJP sarkar" title=" . ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Throughout the campaign, Mamata Banerjee leaned on her 2021 playbook, asserting that she was the ‘sole candidate’ across all 294 seats. This time, however, the strategy that had fended off anti-incumbency backfired. Voters were not going to make the same mistake again.In...

Congress overcomes weak organisation with united frontThe Congress-led UDF swept back into govt in Kerala on Monday after a 10-year hiatus, riding a largerthan-expected anti-incumbency wave across the state against the Pinarayi Vijayan govt. UDF won 102 seats in the 140-member legislative assembly. The magnitude of the victory surprised even the winners. The major factor...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130813276,imgsize-1711961,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-65.jpg" alt="Assembly election results 2026: Beyond headlines, behind numbers" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo Few state polls have been as dramatic as this round. TOI explains the verdicts through 10 decisive factors, from freebies becoming entitlements to women’s safety, and from Hindu vote to Gen Z angst1) Return of anti-incumbencyFor a...

NEW DELHI: BJP’s stellar performance in West Bengal will give the party an advantage in the Upper House only after the next parliamentary polls as the earliest vacancies from the state would be reported in Aug 2029.Similarly in Tamil Nadu, the impact will be seen two years from now. The state assembly election results will...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130813105,imgsize-1540321,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-63.jpg" alt="Assembly election results 2026: Assam & Bengal verdicts shift the minority needle" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo NEW DELHI: Bengal and Assam poll results have thrown up a challenge for the Muslim community, which has been pushed into a political whirlpool post-2014 by BJP’s ‘communal card’ to polarise the majority...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130812030,imgsize-859642,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-62.jpg" alt="Left out: Kerala gone, Communists not in office in any state after almost 50 years" title=" File photo ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> File photo NEW DELHI: For the first time since 1977, India will have no Communist-governed state as Kerala voters oust the CPM-led LDF and hand a victory to the Congress-led UDF.The loss...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130811620,imgsize-121426,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/pm-modi-in-bengal.jpg" alt="West Bengal election results: 'Poriborton hoye gechhe; let's talk change, not revenge,' says PM Modi" title=" PM Modi in Bengal ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> PM Modi in Bengal NEW DELHI: “Banglaye poriborton hoye gechhe (change has happened in Bengal),” said a triumphant PM Narendra Modi, clad in traditional Bengali attire of ‘dhuti-panjabi’, in his...

Change reaction in 3 states; Assam keeps Biswas in HimantaIt was a day of dramatic upheavals. BJP finally managed to win the state that had virtually become its final frontier over the past 10 years, Tamil superstar Vijay made a stunning political debut and looks set to be the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu,...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130811365,imgsize-1360280,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-60.jpg" alt="Gun scare near White House: Person shot by law enforcement at Washington Monument; lockdown briefly imposed" title=" Gun scare near White House: Person shot by law enforcement at Washington Monument ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Gun scare near White House: Person shot by law enforcement at Washington Monument An individual was shot by law enforcement...

<img src="https://static.toiimg.com/thumb/msid-130811262,imgsize-1119238,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4/untitled-design-59.jpg" alt="Assembly election results: Blockbuster debut! Vijay Tamil Nadu's Gen-nayagan" title=" Calling himself ‘Vijay Mama’, the TVK chief thanked kids for his victory ” decoding=”async” fetchpriority=”high”> Calling himself ‘Vijay Mama’, the TVK chief thanked kids for his victory MGR, the biggest crossover star from cinema to Tamil Nadu politics, never drank or smoked on...