Sravasti Dasgupta 
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has mandates that eateries in the state along the routes of the kanwar yatra will have to display names of their owners in a move that has been criticised by the opposition and the BJP’s own allies like the JD(U) and the LJP.
In the aftermath of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP unit in Uttar Pradesh seems to be unravelling. UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya visited Delhi to meet Union home minister Amit Shah, igniting speculation about the future of the Adityanath government.
Meanwhile the INDIA bloc has received a boost after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, by winning 10 of the 13 assembly seats where bypolls were held. The BJP, in an attempt to maintain pressure on the Congress, issued a notification stating that June 25 will be celebrated as Samvidhaan Hatya Diwas.
In the US, ahead of elections former president Donald Trump has survived an assassination bid as pressure mounts on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the race. The Wire’s Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by Seema Chishti, editor at The Wire and Sobhana K. Nair, deputy editor at the Hindu.