Sunday, October 12
    BJP

    BJP reverses Lok Sabha dip, Brand Modi shines again: Five poll takeaways for national politics

    Nalin MehtaBy No Comments1 Min Read

    If the Lok Sabha results were interpreted by some as the beginning of the decline of Narendra Modi’s BJP, the Haryana and J&K assembly election result shows that such exultation was premature. BJP’s record third consecutive win in Haryana and its emergence as the largest national party in Jammu and Kashmir has significant implications for politics.

    1. Haryana shows why BJP is not a pushover in Hindi heartland: BJP fell short of a majority on its own in the Lok Sabha poll primarily because of reverses in its Hindi heartland bastions – UP where it dipped badly, Haryana where it lost half its parliamentary seats and Rajasthan where it dropped a handful as well. These electoral setbacks were primarily driven by some OBC and Dalit voters – who had powered its previous electoral victories – again moving away from the party.

    Read the full article here: Moneycontrol Article

    Share.

    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.

    Related Posts

    Comments are closed.