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    Why BJP’s Winning Muslim Seats

    Nalin MehtaBy Nalin MehtaJuly 17, 2022Updated:July 26, 2023No Comments1 Min Read
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    BJP’s stunning victories in Lok Sabha byelections in Rampur, with over 50% Muslim population, and Azamgarh, with over 40% Muslim-Yadav population, signify deeper shifts. If pollsters were to bet on the most unlikely seats for BJP, Rampur and Azamgarh would rank among the very top. Their demographics have long put them at the heart of SP’s core political matrix. Which is why Azamgarh served as Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Lok Sabha constituency in 2014 and Akhilesh Yadav’s in 2019.

    Even three months ago, when Yogi Adityanath became the first full-term UP CM to return to office since Independence, SP had won all 10 assembly segments in Azamgarh. Yet this red cap bastion has now fallen to BJP.

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    This article was first published on The Times of India | June 27, 2022

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    Nalin Mehta is Managing Editor, Moneycontrol, Chief AI Officer - Editorial Operations, Network18 and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He is an award-winning Indian journalist, political scientist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major media companies and educational institutions; served as an international civil servant with the UN and the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (La Trobe University, ANU), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (Shiv Nadar University, IIM Bangalore). Most recently, he has been Dean and Professor at School of Modern Media, UPES University. He has previously been Group Consulting Editor, Network18; Executive Editor, The Times of India-Online, Managing Editor, India Today (TV channel) and Consulting Editor, The Times of India. Mehta is the author of several best-selling and critically acclaimed books, including The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party (hailed as a ‘seminal’ work, No. 1 on Amazon’s bestseller lists for 26 consecutive weeks in 2022, and republished worldwide in several languages); India’s Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World’s Largest Democracy, India on Television (Asian Publishing Award for Best Book on Asian Media, 2009), Behind a Billion Screens (Longlisted as Business Book of the Year, Tata Literature Live, 2015) and Dreams of a Billion (2022 Ekamra Sports Book of the Year Award, co-authored). His edited books include Gujarat Beyond Gandhi (co-editor), Television in India and The Changing Face of Cricket (co-editor). Mehta is a DFID-Commonwealth scholar with a Ph.D in Political Science from Trobe University, Melbourne; M.A. International Relations from University of East Anglia, UK; and B.A. Journalism (Honours) from University of Delhi.

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