In Maharashtra, Bhagat Singh Koshyari has done pretty much as he liked, observes Aditi Phadnis.

The world knew who Balasaheb's Shiv Sainik was. But who was Uddhav's Shiv Sainik? And most importantly, why did he believe in Uddhav, and not Nitin Gadkari or Devendra Fadnavis?

Mamata Banerjee's sights are not on the next month's Presidential election. She is focusing on another election that will take place in 2024.

No prizes for guessing what the BJP's election campaign is going to be, and who will provide important inputs for it.

In his capacity as India's First Citizen, the President owns the shares of several public sector enterprises held by the government.

In Tripura, the challenge for the chief minister is less from the alliance partners and more from his own party, the BJP.

With time on his side, that Hardik Patel will one day occupy the top spot in Gujarat is a no-brainer. But the BJP doesn't like rabble-rousers.

That's a deficit the NDA will have to make up with the help of 'friendly' alliance partners, the very groupings the PM has said are 'family-run'.

Vinai Kumar Saxena's current job as lieutenant governor of an Opposition-ruled state will raise the bar -- not just for him, but also for the Aam Aadmi Party government, which never says no to a fight with the representative of the central government in India's capital.

The NDA's combined parliamentary and state-level committed Presidential votes number around 12,000 fewer than a majority.

The JD-U, may be the BJP's partner for now. But it is a party at all only because of Nitish Kumar. The day Nitish Kumar exits, the JD-U will split into hundreds of pieces. Obviously, Prashant Kishor is setting himself up as the vessel that will collect all the pieces and put them together in some sort of political instrument, explains Aditi Phadnis.

Dr Ajay Kumar Sood will have to complete a task his predecessor started: Getting the government to sign off on a new Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy on which work was begun in 2020.

The perception is rapidly gaining ground that though the chief minister is from the Shiv Sena, the government is being run by the NCP.

The Shahbaz Sharif family (his two wives and their children) invested PkRs 277 crore in 13 companies without having known sources of income.

The turning point in his career was undoubtedly Nepal where he was sent as ambassador and acted with a cool head.

New Delhi has a chance to rid itself of its image as the bully in the subcontinent by helping a neighbour tackle problems that India, for once, has no role in creating. It should grab the opportunity with both hands, suggests Aditi Phadnis.

If AAP dominates both state and local elections, the move for unification may become the illness for the BJP instead of the medicine it was supposed to have been.

Analysts have their doubts how much independence she has as finance minister. As Amit Mitra advises the chief minister, day-to-day work is done by the finance secretary and the chief secretary.

AAP's presence in both states has complicated the contests for the BJP and its Congress rival.

The fulcrum of victory or defeat of parties attempting to form a government is held by smaller players and those willing to defect.