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anti-incumbency news

West Bengal and the politics of memory

The perceived rise in anti-Hindu sentiment in Bangladesh, along with the BJP’s high-voltage campaign against atrocities against Bangladesh’s Hindus, appears to have had a major impact on the electoral behaviour of Hindu refugee communities from Bangladesh. (PTI)
Published on May 14, 2026 08:41 pm IST

West Bengal polls: Will SIR undercut anti-incumbency against TMC

Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) stormed to power in 2011. (X)
Updated on Apr 13, 2026 10:54 am IST

In the state polls, a battle of competing narratives

In West Bengal, it would be interesting to see if the Congress and the Left parties — which are fighting the polls separately — can achieve respectable results or merely end up splitting the anti-Mamata vote. (PTI)
Updated on Apr 05, 2026 11:45 pm IST

Assembly polls 2026: Kerala CPI(M) faces challenge from top rebels in key seats

Kerala chief minister and senior CPI(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan. (PTI)
Published on Mar 25, 2026 11:44 am IST

CPI(M)’s Kerala assembly polls bid faces challenges amid rebellion, anti-incumbency

CPI(M)’s Kerala assembly polls bid faces challenges amid rebellion, anti-incumbency
Published on Mar 25, 2026 08:52 am IST

Ex-Haryana DGP's book names 'rational abdication' by officials as hidden cause behind anti-incumbency

Ex-Haryana DGP's book names 'rational abdication' by officials as hidden cause behind anti-incumbency
Published on Mar 22, 2026 03:00 pm IST

BJP launches 'Paribartan Yatra' in Bengal, challenges TMC ahead of state polls

The programme will kick off a day after the publication of the revised electoral rolls under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state.
Published on Mar 01, 2026 11:15 am IST

Tarn Taran bypoll: Drubbing rings alarm bells for Punjab Congress ahead of 2027 state polls

The bypoll exposed Congress’s inability to consolidate “anti-incumbency” against the AAP government (HT File)
Published on Nov 15, 2025 07:40 am IST

BJP likely to retain most of sitting legislators in first list

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s list of candidates for the upcoming Bihar assembly polls is expected to have fewer new faces (AFP)
Published on Oct 10, 2025 05:43 am IST

Jagan urges party workers to prepare for ‘war against govt’

YSR Congress party president YS Jagan Mohan Reddy at a digital book launch in Hyderabad on Wednesday. (HT PHOTO)
Published on Sept 25, 2025 04:48 am IST

Andhra govt failed to fulfil promises and safeguard law: Jagan

YS Jagan Mohan Reddy
Published on Jun 20, 2025 08:04 am IST

What swung the vote in Delhi polls: Civic issues

Potholes at Mahadev Mandir Chowk. (Arvind Yadav/HT)
Published on Feb 09, 2025 08:06 am IST

Delhi assembly polls: BJP takes early lead as counting of votes begins

Security checks at a counting centre in New Delhi. (PTI)
Updated on Feb 08, 2025 09:02 am IST

Delhi doesn’t look like capital of fifth largest economy: Jay Panda

Baijayant Panda at his house in New Delhi on Friday. (Sanchit Khanna/HT Photo)
Published on Jan 31, 2025 10:15 pm IST

BJP is the one facing anti-incumbency over law and order in Delhi... not us: Manish Sisodia

AAP leader Manish Sisodia at his house on Rajendra Prasad Road on Friday. (RAJ K RAJ /HT PHOTO)
Updated on Jan 18, 2025 05:02 am IST

Centre is detrimental to growth of Oppn states: Bharadwaj

Saurabh Bharadwaj (HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 13, 2025 04:45 am IST

Kejriwal panicking, trying to pressure us through partners for supporting AAP: Delhi Cong chief

Kejriwal panicking, trying to pressure us through partners for supporting AAP: Delhi Cong chief
Updated on Jan 09, 2025 06:35 pm IST

Can AAP score a hat-trick in Delhi? A SWOT analysis

Can AAP score a hat-trick in Delhi? A SWOT analysis
Updated on Jan 07, 2025 06:28 pm IST

The year ahead: Back to the future

(HT File)
Updated on Jan 01, 2025 02:16 pm IST

AAP releases final list for Delhi polls; Kejriwal to contest from New Delhi seat

Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal and Delhi chief minister Atishi. (File Photo-Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)
Published on Dec 15, 2024 05:02 pm IST

The new AAP with old non-AAP faces

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New Delhi: AAP National Convener Arvind Kejriwal's supporters during his ‘padyatra’ in Karol Bagh area ahead of the Delhi Assembly elections, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo) (PTI)
Published on Dec 09, 2024 10:35 am IST

Can anti-incumbency dent Fadnavis’s chances in Nagpur South-West?

Maharashtra Deputy Minister Devendra Fadnavis addresses a public meeting.
Updated on Nov 16, 2024 09:22 am IST

Maharashtra Polls: No BJP flags at Nawab Malik's Mankhurd Shivaji Nagar show

Former minister and NCP leader Nawab Malik. (Photo by Vijay Bate/HT Photo) (Hindustan Times)
Updated on Nov 06, 2024 09:20 am IST

Terms of Trade | What really happened in Haryana?

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Gurugram, India-October 08: Workers and supporters celebrated the success of Bharatiya Janata Party in Haryana Assembly elections on Civil Lines Road at near John Hall, in Gurugram, India, on Tuesday, 08 October 2024. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)
Published on Oct 11, 2024 05:04 pm IST

South Haryana behindBJP’s crowning glory

Retired political science professor Anant Ram said that the Union minister Rao Inderjit Singh played a key role in the BJP’s victory in the last three assembly polls and this time BJP won 10 out of 11 assembly seats that fall in Ahirwal belt of south Haryana. (HT File)
Updated on Oct 11, 2024 06:46 am IST

Haryana assembly elections: Inability to consolidate non-Jats, failure to pacify rebels did Congress in

Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda speaks to the media after meeting election commissioners at Nirvachan Sadan, in New Delhi on Wednesday. (PTI)
Updated on Oct 10, 2024 02:02 pm IST

How BJP swept 10 out of 14 seats in south Haryana, stunned Congress

BJP’s Laxman Singh Yadav, the winning candidate from Rewari with his supporters after the assembly election results were declared in Gurugram on Tuesday. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Oct 10, 2024 05:58 am IST

Door-to-door campaign, RSS helped BJP win big

Mukesh Sharma, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from the Gurgaon seat after his poll victory in Gurugram on Tuesday. (HT PHOTO)
Updated on Oct 09, 2024 05:52 am IST

Five factors that helped BJP defy anti-incumbency in Haryana

BJP supporters during counting of votes for Haryana Assembly polls, in Jind, on Tuesday. (PTI)
Published on Oct 08, 2024 01:00 pm IST

Jaishankar will travel to Islamabad for SCO meet

Polling officials carry EVMs as they leave for their respective polling stations on the eve of the Haryana Assembly elections, in Rohtak on Friday. (PTI)
Updated on Oct 05, 2024 06:16 am IST