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News and views regarding the political landscape of India. From national political parties to regional news, we try and cut through the noise to explain how Indian politics is shaping up.

Editor's picks

Family members of ‘Lottery King’ Santiago Martin, largest electoral bond buyer with ties to TMC, DMK, Congress and CPIM, win 3 seats in Tamil...

OpIndia Staff -
Jose Charles Martin, son of Santiago Martian, launched his party, the Latchiya Jananayaka Katchi party, in December 2025. Jose made a victorious debut, winning two seats. His party is a part of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
News Reports

West Bengal Assembly Election 2026: As opposition and left liberals blame SIR for TMC’s defeat, data shows Mamata’s party won 13 of 20 seats...

Anurag -
Rahul Gandhi, Sayema, Arfa Khanum Sherwani and Sanjay Singh blamed the SIR after the results. Yet the top deletion seats tell a different story, with the TMC winning 13 out of the 20.
News Reports

How BJP went from 0 seats to winning the West Bengal election in 15 years: A closer look at the architects who made it...

Dibakar Dutta -
The meteoric rise of the BJP from 0 seats in 2011 to winning the 2026 Vidhan Sabha election tells a different story. It did not happen by sheer chance. The party was built brick by brick by its State leaders and its cadres in the past 15 years.
News Reports

PM Modi assures strict action against infiltrators in West Bengal in his speech after election results, says Congress has become a den of Urban...

OpIndia Staff -
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed jubilant BJP workers at the party headquarters in New Delhi on Monday evening, following the assembly election results that...
News Reports

West Bengal election: Mother of RG Kar rape-murder victim Ratna Debnath leads by a huge margin against TMC, all set to win Panihati seat

OpIndia Staff -
Ratna Debnath has secured 56167 votes so far.
News Reports

Bypoll verdict 2026: BJP dominates nationwide, Congress scores in Karnataka

OpIndia Staff -
The BJP has performed strongly, winning multiple seats across states, while Congress has managed to secure victories in Karnataka. 
Government and Policy

West Bengal Chief Secretary directs all offices to ensure that no important paper or file is removed or damaged, prohibits unauthorised copying of documents

OpIndia Staff -
West Bengal Chief Secretary Dushyant Nariala has issued a formal directive to all departmental secretaries and heads of offices, instructing them to prevent the...
Opinions

As BJP heads towards a historic win in West Bengal, liberals suffer a massive meltdown, ignore 15-years of anti-incumbency and declare BJP victory ‘unfair’

Shraddha Pandey -
The anti-BJP brigade has recycled its formulaic ‘Hum hare nahi humein haraya gaya hai’ bogey by casting aspersions on the integrity of the Election Commission, instead of gracefully accepting the Janadesh.
Editor's picks

Assam Congress president Gaurav Gogoi suffers a massive defeat in Jorhat constituency, party reduced from 29 seats to 20 under his leadership in the...

OpIndia Staff -
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma is leading comfortably from the Jalukbari constituency.
News Reports

Clashes erupt between BJP and TMC workers at several places in West Bengal during counting, police use lathi charges to maintain order

OpIndia Staff -
Scuffles broke out between party workers of BJP and TMC at several counting centres as vote counting progressed for the West Bengal Assembly elections. A...
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