Modi's party ends Mamata's 15-year rule and wins a third Assam term, but Vijay's TVK seizes Tamil Nadu and Congress sweeps Kerala — three of four states change hands
Bharatiya Janata Party
The NTA scraps the 2.27-million-candidate medical entrance after a paper leak; a satirical youth movement demanding the education minister's resignation gains 22 million followers in a month
4,399 days surpasses Nehru — a record the cabinet calls a democratic milestone and the opposition calls 'dubiously invented'
The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill to expand parliament to 850 seats and freeze delimitation on the 2011 census fails the two-thirds bar amid a united opposition and southern revolt
An ₹18.36-crore freeze on Kerala's ex-CM revives 'weaponised agencies' charges; the Supreme Court's November opinion narrows its own April ruling that had reined in Governors
The ₹99,446-crore PM-VBRY pays first-time formal workers up to ₹15,000 and subsidises employers; a ₹2,400-crore first tranche reaches 15 lakh, but start-ups and micro-firms barely know it exists
President's Rule was lifted in February for a BJP chief minister; by June a Kuki-Naga rupture, mass hostage-taking and fresh shootings show the conflict is mutating, not ending