Centre vs the States

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state of play · Leaders

In London, Keir Starmer resigned June 22, giving Britain its seventh prime minister in a decade; Andy Burnham leads the Labour succession race with nominations opening July 9. The Iran MoU places Pezeshkian in the position of defending a deal his own IRGC is actively undermining, a test of whether civilian government can hold against the Guards on a live issue. Delcy Rodriguez's interim government is managing a catastrophic earthquake response with degraded infrastructure and US sanctions in the background, Trump's aid pledge notwithstanding. In the Indo-Pacific, Tarique Rahman's 13 MoUs with Beijing mark the clearest pivot away from India Dhaka has signalled in years. Xi's Pyongyang visit and his Myanmar engagement continue Beijing's dual-track of shoring up buffer states while managing two troubled dependencies. The NATO Ankara summit July 7-8 arrives with the 5% GDP defence pledge pre-agreed by the E5.

Nigeria's Senate passes state-police amendment, ending a 47-year federal monopoly

Tinubu's executive bill clears the upper house; 24 of 36 state assemblies must still ratify before governors can run their own forces

Who Decides ·13 takes ·Jun 29

Nigeria's Senate passes state police constitutional amendment, dissolving 100-year-old single-force model

A manual vote after the electronic system failed ratified a dual policing structure giving Nigeria's 36 governors power to appoint their own commissioners; two-thirds of state assemblies must still endorse it

Who Decides ·6 takes ·Jun 29

Manipur's elected government returns, but the killing and abductions go on

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

What Broke ·6 takes ·Jun 24

ED raids on Pinarayi reopen the Centre-vs-states fight as the court walks back on Governors

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

Who Decides ·13 takes ·Jun 24

Modi's plan to nearly double the Lok Sabha is voted down

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

Who Decides ·8 takes ·Jun 24

California drops its $4bn fight with Trump, takes high-speed rail private

After Washington's June compliance review found 'no viable path forward,' the state abandons its lawsuit and turns to private investors and cap-and-trade

Whose Money ·8 takes ·Jun 25