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Monday, September 1, 2025
TopicDelhi elections 2025

Topic: Delhi elections 2025

Six-time BJP MLA Mohan Singh Bisht elected deputy speaker of Delhi Assembly

The veteran BJP leader won the Delhi assembly elections from Mustafabad constituency, defeating AAP’s Adeel Ahmad Khan by over 17,000 votes.

Delhi govt portfolios: CM Rekha Gupta keeps finance, vigilance, Kapil Mishra gets law, Parvesh Verma PWD

A senior BJP leader said the party accommodated two Purvanchali ministers in Delhi cabinet keeping in mind the Bihar elections later this year.

No level-playing field between BJP and Opposition. Democracies don’t function like this

India's Opposition is being asked to perform the herculean task of not only taking on a resourceful and ruthless BJP but also fending off a battery of institutions that serve only one side.

The centrepiece to BJP’s Delhi win: a slogan that vanished after Lok Sabha polls

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Fact check: Delhi Metro fare has not been increased after polls. 2017 report is viral

DMRC posted a clarification on X that the fares have not been revised. Claims made on social media are false.

Delhi gets its freedom—from mismanagement, false promises, drama, and a corrupt leader

Delhi elections 2025: On 5 February, I wished for a Viksit Delhi. I am pleased to see that Delhi will no longer be left behind.

Don’t misdiagnose AAP defeat in Delhi election results. It will be fatal to democracy

Without the BJP’s power grab, none of AAP’s shortcomings would have cost it its majority in Delhi.

Delhi’s Muslim voters didn’t abandon AAP. Party fell short of perfect score due to vote-cutter AIMIM

BJP won Mustafabad, but it was courtesy AIMIM which emerged as a vote cutter. While AAP had Muslim candidates in five seats, Congress had six such candidates.

Delhi election results show voters won’t live without ideas, ideology for long

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

A lotus brooms in Delhi & DOGE-ing free speech

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.