Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Shabbir Ahmed, Pooja Prasanna and Korah Abraham.

This week we write about the AAP’s uphill battle in the upcoming elections in Delhi, where the real test might lie in how many people turn up to vote. In Karnataka, as big tech firms push for a 14-hour workday, the Karnataka IT/ITeS Employees Union wants the proposal withdrawn. While Labour Minister Santosh Lad has reached out to the union for discussions, it remains to be seen how the issue will play out. Meanwhile, Tamil Nadu’s top police and government officials are in a tough spot after the SIT set up by the Madras High Court to probe the Anna University sexual assault case and the subsequent FIR ‘leak’ is summoning journalists at an alarming rate.