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Sunday, January 25, 2026
TopicMaharashtra election

Topic: Maharashtra election

CSDS-Lokniti’s Sanjay Kumar faces two FIRs in Maharashtra over ‘misleading’ voter data post

In now-deleted post, Sanjay Kumar claimed Ramtek & Devlali in Maharashtra registered a decline of 36-38% in number of voters between Lok Sabha & Assembly polls.

BJP has perfected the art of hacking hearts and minds—not EVMs

Instead of harping on the stale narrative of EVM tampering, the Congress should concentrate on finding a way to hack into the minds of the people—which the BJP has done.

Our take on Sambhal violence, Maharashtra polls & Hemant Soren—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

BJP to middle class: Was nice to have your support at the beginning. Now we don’t need you

If a government knows how to accommodate the fat cats and has worked out how to win the votes of the poor with direct transfers, then it doesn’t need the middle class

Maharashtra results send a clear message—people want prosperity, not papaji ki jaagir

It is apparent that years of Congress misrule and empty promises—hawa mein baatein, as it’s said in Hindi— have rendered the party a toothless tiger in the polls.

TV news loves ‘Hindu-Muslim’; politicians are feeding the content this election season

The on-going election season is a war of slogans. And all of them seek to consolidate the Hindu or the Muslim, the caste, class or creed vote behind a particular political party.

BJP set for victories in Maharashtra & Haryana but something has changed for Modi voters

PM Modi seldom talks about his ‘achhe din’ promise, but people still remember it. These voices from the ground are likely to be drowned in victory celebrations soon.

Ajit Pawar resigned as MLA because he couldn’t tolerate ED action against me: Sharad Pawar

NCP chief Sharad Pawar says he hasn’t spoken to his nephew Ajit, adds that his children had told him reason behind resignation.

A missing Congress in Maharashtra and economics of the trickle-down theory

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

On Camera

Mark Tully was a colossus on the Indian subcontinent. He had sources at all levels

I was in Islamabad when Mark Tully broke the news of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto being hanged. I held it against him—he could have tipped me off. But he was a journalist before he was a friend.

India wants Canada’s resources as nations build on truce, British Columbia’s Premier says

Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.

Shaurya Chakra for Lt Col who led op to ‘eliminate’ terror leadership along Indo-Myanmar border

President Murmu has also conferred Kirti Chakra on Major Arshdeep Singh of 1 Assam Rifles for eliminating armed cadres when patrol led by him came under fire along Indo-Myanmar Border last May.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.