The Poll Body has decided to freeze the 'All India Trinamool Congress' name and its 'flowers and grass' symbol for the October 6 by-polls, scheduled in Assam among other states.
Factors include age, new allies, and elections in key states such as UP and Punjab. Sources told NDTV a rejig is being worked on with the 2029 Lok Sabha contest, too, in mind.
The BJP just rebuilt its Uttar Pradesh machine from the ground up - because it cannot afford a repeat of 2024
The nearly two-and-a-half-decade-old BJP and SAD alliance collapsed in 2020 amid the controversy over the three contentious farm laws
The issue of high number of unsolved sacrilege cases is also being used by the radicals to create public angst against mainstream political parties
Rekha Gupta said the election schedule of Delhi being only one year behind the Lok Sabha elections, adjustments can be made for a national-level synchronization.


