In 2014, with the emergence of Narendra Modi as a larger-than-life campaigner overshadowing his party, began the rumblings of electoral democracy in India having become presidential. Modi spoke in ral...

The Election Commission of India has asked political parties not to release their manifesto in the 48-hour period before polling. The restriction applies across the country, which means a regional par...

On a day Amit Shah’s helicopter was denied permission to land on a private plot in Baruipur, the BJP president announced his plan to arrive in Calcutta on Tuesday for a road show through the heart o...

Nothing Mughal is kosher for the Yogi Adityanath regime in Uttar Pradesh, but election managers of the BJP in Allahabad — whose name has been changed to Prayagraj by the current dispensation — are...

Sir — Parisians have sworn that Notre-Dame shall rise again. But will it ever be the same? No matter how true to the original the new structure is, the cathedral as it was has ceased to exist. As sa...

Everyone knows who won. But hardly anyone knows how. Brexit: The Uncivil War explores the data-driven political campaign behind one of the most contested and controversial government referendums in m...

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Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday charged that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is being targeted as part of a conspiracy to divert attention from failures of the Modi governmen...

For the first time in India, the Election Commission has curtailed the campaign time for the nine Bengal seats that vote on Sunday, citing violence, including the flare-up during BJP chief Amit Shahâ€...

Unlike the kurta-pyjama-bundi combination usually sported by politicians of the country, two main contenders for the prestigious Jamshedpur Lok Sabha seat feel comfortable in simple shirts and trouser...