Election Night Overview

Tamil Nadu Upset Begins

Why Vijay Won Big

AIADMK and DMK Collapse

TVK Policies and Team

West Bengal BJP Breakthrough

Why TMC Lost Ground

TMC Future and BJP CM Race

Assam BJP Hat Trick

Kerala UDF Comeback

Kerala CM Contenders

Wrap Up and Credits

A political script has been torn up across India’s key states. Tamil Nadu sees actor Vijay’s TVK disrupt decades of Dravidian dominance. West Bengal delivers a stunning power shift as BJP ends a 15-year Trinamool rule. Assam doubles down on continuity, handing Himanta Biswa Sarma a third term and deepening BJP’s hold. And Kerala returns to its classic anti-incumbency cycle, giving Congress a crucial win. In this episode of Polls on My Pod, Nidhi Sharma and ET's Dia Rekhi, Kumar Anshuman and CL Manoj decode the deeper story—fracturing vote banks, new social coalitions, and what these mandates signal for national politics ahead. Listen in:

<p>A political script has been torn up across India&rsquo;s key states. Tamil Nadu sees actor Vijay&rsquo;s TVK disrupt decades of Dravidian dominance. West Bengal delivers a stunning power shift as BJP ends a 15-year Trinamool rule. Assam doubles down on continuity, handing Himanta Biswa Sarma a third term and deepening BJP&rsquo;s hold. And Kerala returns to its classic anti-incumbency cycle, giving Congress a crucial win. In this episode of Polls on My Pod, Nidhi Sharma and ET's Dia Rekhi, Kumar Anshuman and CL Manoj decode the deeper story&mdash;fracturing vote banks, new social coalitions, and what these mandates signal for national politics ahead. Listen in:</p>

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