Welcome to this week’s Powertrip, a political newsletter exclusively curated for TNM and NL subscribers by Dhanya Rajendran, Shabbir Ahmed, and Pooja Prasanna. After the BJP found itself in a bind over a photograph of a former history-sheeter from Tamil Nadu posing with Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his visit to Madurai, a report by state president Nainar Nagenthiran only embarrassed the party further. The arrest of an ADGP following court orders over his alleged involvement in the abduction of a minor boy has put the DMK government on the back foot. In the political and administrative fallout that followed the tragic stampede in Bengaluru, Powertrip learnt of one senior figure who has quietly avoided consequences so far.