Category Archives: Election 2019

As its bonhomie with markets ended, as it failed to get enough jobs, and as the State refused to dole out sops to it, the middle class’ backlash influenced politics from the outside. The younger generation, though fragmented in many … Continue reading →

The ousted BJP in the assembly election barely four months ago and has good reason to believe that people’s political honeymoon with the party will last till at least the Lok Sabha polls. Also, tribals and scheduled castes have indicated … Continue reading →

IF the stupendous victory of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was attributed to the wave of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, then the 2019 Lok Sabha elections at least in Maharashtra appears to be a test for his blue-eyed boy, Chief … Continue reading →

IN the run up to the Lok Sabha polls 2019, for the main political parties, Congress, BJP and INLD, it is six degrees of desperation. It is probably a now or never-know-when situation for these political outfits. The breakaway of … Continue reading →

A polarisation of opposition votes seems to be on the cards. That is how the BJP has forced a direct contest with the TMC in two-thirds of Bengal’s Lok Sabha seats. The polarisation of anti-TMC votes in BJP’s favour has … Continue reading →

IT looks like the home state of Narendra Modi-Amit Shah will stay with the duo in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has virtually surmounted all the likely challenges. It looks like the electioneering in … Continue reading →

HIMACHAL Pradesh in the national context, especially with Lok Sabha polls around the corner, gets relegated to insignificance. With just four seats at stake, it is like an etcetera state. The national parties have seldom considered it an important state. … Continue reading →

AS the 2019 Lok Sabha polls approach, the land of five rivers, Punjab, which brought about the Green Revolution in the 1960s and fed the entire nation, is battling a complex battle of socio-economic evils like farmers’ suicides, unemployment, drug … Continue reading →

RAJASTHAN is a cultural, historical and political region that has a strong regional identity. The modern Rajasthan is now 70 year old after its formation on March 30, 1949. The state inherited caste conflicts, caste and communal bias and the … Continue reading →

This is the first election in the state without AIADMK’s J Jayalalithaa and DMK’s M Karunanidhi. It would be interesting to watch how the two main Tamil parties tackle the situation and as to who comes on top. Sumit Bothra … Continue reading →