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The rebellious MLAs have been given a chance in the new Government to keep the pack together ahead of Assembly polls. And Hemant dropping his brother Basant is being viewed as a move to blunt BJP’s dynastic politics attack. Sudhir Kumar Mishra reports

With the Assembly elections just a few months away, the decision to bring back the out-on-bail Hemant Soren at the helm of affairs in Jharkhand has been taken as part of a multi-pronged strategy. The Indian Tribal reports

As the JMM-led INDIA bloc and the BJP gear up for the next showdown in the Assembly polls slated later this year, both sides have started espousing the tribal cause with more vigour. For now, it’s advantage JMM if the results of ST seats in the last elections [...]

Elected for the sixth time as the MP from Sundargarh, Oram has for the third time been entrusted with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, crucial to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tribal outreach. Modi 3.0 has only one Minister of State instead of two like last time around. M. [...]

In the process of bagging all the 29 Lok Sabha seats in the State, the BJP won all the 6 ST reserved seats. The spectacular performance comes just months after its resounding victory in the Assembly polls. Vijay Singh Thakur reports

Tribals, who had helped the BJP wrest power from the Congress in late 2023, had no change of heart in the Lok Sabha polls also. They ensured the BJP won all the four Scheduled Tribe (ST) reserved parliamentary constituency seats of the State. Vijay Singh Thakur reports

The State played its part in denting the BJP’s prospects of achieving the majority mark on its own. Tribal sentiments against the arrest of former CM Hemant Soren seem to have played a role in I.N.D.I.A allies JMM and Congress vanquishing the BJP on all the five ST [...]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked the electorate for giving the NDA a “historical” third consecutive term but among others the BJP’s below-par performance, going by its own targets, also owed to major reverses in States like Jharkhand, where even Tribal Affairs Minister Arjun Munda lost. M. Madhusudan reports [...]

Surrounded by crocodiles-infested waters and forests full of man-eating tigers, they have nowhere to go. To them, Netas of Kolkata are as invisible as the God of the heavens. S. Shrobana hears them out. PART-2

Elections come and elections go but the condition of the ‘Tiger widows’ of Bidhoba Para — Widows’ Village — in West Bengal continues to remain unchanged. S. Shrobona visits one such village