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- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Meghalaya: the political economy of a Sixth Schedule border state
As of 28 July 2026, Meghalaya is governed by a National People's Party-led Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, the settlement produced by the February 2023 assembly election and unchanged since; the state did not poll in the 2026 round.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Nagaland: the political economy of a constitutional-exception border state the Union underwrites
As of 28 July 2026, Nagaland is governed by the NDPP–BJP-led United Democratic Alliance elected in February 2023, sitting in a 60-member House with no recognised opposition — every party having joined the government.
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Odisha: the political economy of a mineral state on a cyclone coast, and its seams with the Union
As of 28 July 2026, Odisha is governed by the BJP, which won 78 of the 147 assembly seats in June 2024 and ended the Biju Janata Dal's 24-year hold on the state; Odisha did not vote in the 2026 cycle and this is its standing dispensation.
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Mizoram: the political economy of a border state bound to the Union by a peace settlement
As of 28 July 2026, Mizoram is governed by the Zoram People's Movement, which holds 27 of the 40 assembly seats won at the December 2023 election — the first time a party other than the Mizo National Front or the Congress has run the state.
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Punjab: the political economy of a grain-surplus border state that shares its own capital
81 lakh crore built on a wheat-and-paddy surplus that feeds the Union's central foodgrain pool.
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Puducherry: the political economy of a union territory that governs like a state
25 million people, one Lok Sabha seat and four non-contiguous enclaves scattered across three states, legislating on State List subjects under Article 239A and the Government of Union Territories Act, 1963 rather than under the federal scheme.
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Rajasthan: the political economy of a border-and-desert state
89 lakh crore split roughly 27% agriculture, 27% manufacturing and 46% services.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Sikkim: the political economy of the Union's smallest, richest, most transfer-dependent state
As of 28 July 2026, Sikkim is governed by the Sikkim Krantikari Morcha, which won 31 of 32 assembly seats at the June 2024 election on 58% of the vote — a House whose lone opposition member later crossed over, leaving no formal opposition and no Leader of the Opposition.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Telangana: the political economy of a services-and-pharma successor state
5 crore people at the 2011 Census, 17 Lok Sabha seats, and the richest per-capita output of any large Indian state, concentrated almost entirely in Hyderabad's services, IT and pharmaceutical cluster.
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Tripura: the political economy of a Sixth Schedule border state
As of 28 July 2026, Tripura is governed by a BJP-led alliance formed after the 2023 assembly election, an administration into which the regional tribal party Tipra Motha entered in March 2024 after signing the tripartite Tiprasa Accord; the state did not poll in the 2026 round.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Uttarakhand: the political economy of a Himalayan border state with a plains engine
Uttarakhand did not vote in 2026; its standing government is the one the Bharatiya Janata Party won in the February 2022 Vidhan Sabha election, 47 of 70 seats, the first time any party was returned to office in the state since it was formed in 2000.
- Topic · maintained 2026-07-28
Uttar Pradesh: the political economy of the Republic's largest electorate
03% turnout; the state did not vote in the 2026 round. 8 lakh crore for 2025-26, it carries the Union's heaviest electoral weight on one of its thinnest per-capita income bases.