these elections are fought on different planks like caste and local issues. For instance, many attribute the party’s losses in India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, to an out-of-touch, polarizing campaign. In Bihar, a strategic alliance of the other ...
If one revisits the jousts of 2014 when the Modi tidal wave crushed all adversaries, there were several close contests too. Let us start with Bihar and Nalanda where Kaushlendra Kumar of JD(U) vanquished LJP's Satyanand Sharma by a small margin of 9,627 votes, in Hoshiarpur SC seat B...
With support from BJP’s key allies N Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and Nitish Kumar’s JD, which were leading or winning 16 and 12 seats in Andhra Pradesh and Bihar respectively, and other alliance partners, the NDA crossed the halfway mark and appeared to be on...
forging pre-poll alliances and electoral understanding. Only a couple of days ago, the BJP yielded to one of its alliance partners Lok Janshakti Party's (LJP) demand giving it six constituencies in Bihar and promising one seat