Cabinet formation is proving to be a tight-rope walk for Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath, who took over the reins of office on Monday ( December 17) after Congress party, which ended up two short of a clear majority, mustered support of 2 BSP, 1 Samajwadi Party and four Independent MLAs to form the new government in the state after 15 years of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule.

Tightrope walk for Kamal Nath in Madhya Pradesh

Those following the outcome of the recently concluded assembly elections in five states cannot help feeling somewhat concerned, if not cautious, when it comes to projecting the BJP’s prospects in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

After state elections: Nation’s mood and road ahead for BJP

Unexpected reverses suffered by the BJP-NDA combine in recent Assembly elections constrain us to speculate about their impact on India’s external relations-particularly in the neighbourhood.

Domestic compulsions and foreign policy: PM Narendra Modi's balancing act

"KCR will continue to be chief minister, but play a national role," said parliamentarian and K Chandrasekhar Rao's daughter K Kavitha hours after Telangana Rashtra Samithi trounced Congress-led Mahakutami (Grand Alliance) in the Telangana Assembly elections.

Assembly election results 2018: KCR 2.0 and his national ambitions

Various exit polls had predicted a close fight in Madhya Pradesh assembly elections. MP was the cynosure of all eyes, mainly because of its size (230 seats). Another reason was the stature Shivraj Singh Chouhan had gained over the years through his disarming style of functioning and his well-crafted low profile.

Assembly election results 2018: Fight in MP shows why Shivraj Singh Chouhan is still in the reckoning

WION Gravitas: Know how assembly poll results shape 2019 Lok Sabha battle

The Bharatiya Janata Party believed it would retain Rajasthan with a clear victory. The Congress was confident that it would sweep the election. The voters of the state had a somewhat different plan, which became known on December 11.

Assembly election results 2018: In Rajasthan, incoming Congress regime has a lesson to learn from BJP

The election season is reaching its climax. Today, the power corridors and media fraternity are busy discussing the fortunes of BJP and Congress in the assembly elections ahead of the results.

Assembly elections 2018: Ah! To comment on fluctuating fortunes

As campaigning in the five state assembly elections winds down, the day of reckoning, December 11, looms. We will have a good idea of winners and losers by early afternoon, next Tuesday.

Onerous art of multi-tasking

Telangana caretaker chief minister and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief Kalvakuntla Chandrashekar Rao stormed to power in 2014 -- albeit with a simple majority -- riding on the back of strong Telangana statehood emotion.

Assembly elections 2018: KCR's failure to honour his promises could prove costly

The winter chill has not yet peaked in Bhopal but the politicians belonging to the two major claimants for power in Madhya Pradesh – the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress – are feeling the shivers down their spine, with December 11, the day for counting of votes, just round the corner.

Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections 2018: Poll results fairly unpredictable

With the people of Rajasthan voting for a new Assembly four days from now, the electoral script has been virtually finalised, which can change only if there are last minute dramatic twists.

Rajasthan Assembly elections 2018: Whose script will triumph?

Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have voted and their results will be known on December 11 along with those of Telangana and Rajasthan where polling will take place on December 7.

Assembly elections 2018: It's all up in the air

There has been a flurry of activity to cobble up an anti-BJP ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (grand alliance ). The exercise is not unprecedented either in its intention or scope.

Assembly elections 2018: It's a tightrope walk for Congress president Rahul Gandhi

This election campaign has set a new low for political discourse, and it was evident from the following statements for the Prime Minister of the country. Congress MP Raj Babbar had mocked PM’s mother and said that the value of the Rupee has reached her age.

Assembly elections 2018: Political discourse desperately needs a course correction

O, what a fall, my countrymen! That Shakespearean expression comes to mind this week as Indians go to vote in the heartland states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan amid falling standards in national politics that ironically contrasts the new heights to which ordinary citizens are taking India with their extraordinary feats.

Personal attacks by politicians are an insult to Indian voters

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has accused Sonia Gandhi of ignoring Telangana in her election speech in Medchal on Saturday. K Kavitha, the daughter of Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao, said, "Sonia Gandhi visited Telangana and spoke about other states rather than speaking on Telangana state.

TRS MP K Kavitha hits out at Sonia Gandhi, Congress

Bhagwan Das is a barber by profession with daily earnings of around Rs 250 to 400 and lives in a rented one-room set with his family. Das is also contesting in the upcoming Rajasthan Assembly Elections from Jaipur's Malviya Nagar constituency as a Janta Dal (United) candidate.

Aiming to be voice for the weak, Rajasthan barber to contest polls

The District administration here has sealed the doors of the room where Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) have been kept after the elections by constructing brick walls.

Chhattisgarh assembly polls: Doors of EVM stores sealed by constructing walls

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday hit out at the Congress Saturday, days after its leader Raj Babbar compared the rupee's slide with the age of his mother, saying those who did not have issues to talk about, resort to abusing someone else's mother.

Modi targets Congress, says coffers of banks were emptied for rich during 'madam's' govt

Voters who backed the YSR Congress and Telugu Desam party in the 2014 elections are likely to be the deciding factor in Huzurnagar constituency, from where Telangana Congress chief Uttam Kumar Reddy is seeking re-election.

Will Telangana Congress chief get re-elected? YSRC, TDP voters hold key

Congress president Rahul Gandhi Friday said Indians have realised that there is no substance in what Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks, adding the latter is mum on the issues he spoke about before the 2014 elections.

No substance in what Modi speaks, says Rahul Gandhi

Under vitriolic attack from caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on its President N Chandrababu Naidu, the Telugu Desam Party is putting up a brave front in the Telangana Assembly polls.

TDP seeks to take fight to TRS camp in do-or-die poll battle

It’s difficult to say exactly when the Eureka moment first struck Congress President Rahul Gandhi. Around mid-2017, buffeted by state assembly defeat, Gandhi had his epiphany: the Hindu card.

Assembly elections 2018: Will Congress' new found Hindu-centricism work at national level?