On the way back from Bareilly I asked the taxi driver: “Where do you hail from and whom did you vote for this year?” “I am from Meerut and we voted for Modi,” was his reply. “What do you mean by ‘we’?” I asked. “I mean my family members and neighbours,” said the cabbie. “May I know the name of your community?” “Yes, we are Jatavs.” “You are Jatavs and you haven’t voted for Mayawati?” I asked. “No, Modiji made sure that cooking gas reached our homes. My wife and mother are happy. Now, their eyes don’t water while cooking on a choolha (clay oven),” he said.
To conduct a post-mortem of assembly elections, my colleagues and I asked many such questions to voters. There were two significant reasons for the BJP’s victory: The Ujjwala scheme, in which cooking gas was made available to poor families and the promise of a farm loan waiver, which helped consolidate the farmers’ votes. On top of it came the Diwali and Ramzan rhetoric. That took care of the rest. In 2014 if Modi was an icon of hope, in 2017 he emerged as a symbol of a politician whom the common man trusted.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
The question now being raised is: Will the BJP manage to hold on to its 20-year-old rule in Gujarat in the assembly elections at the end of this year? Will it manage to displace the Congress in Himachal Pradesh? Who will come out on top in the five states going to polls next year? Similarly, the biggest challenge looking the Opposition in the eye is making sure it doesn’t become extinct. Will the Congress manage to hold on to power in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Mizoram and Meghalaya? Can it wrest the assembly from the BJP in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh? Will it need a Bihar-like grand coalition to do that?
Source:-Hindustantimes
To conduct a post-mortem of assembly elections, my colleagues and I asked many such questions to voters. There were two significant reasons for the BJP’s victory: The Ujjwala scheme, in which cooking gas was made available to poor families and the promise of a farm loan waiver, which helped consolidate the farmers’ votes. On top of it came the Diwali and Ramzan rhetoric. That took care of the rest. In 2014 if Modi was an icon of hope, in 2017 he emerged as a symbol of a politician whom the common man trusted.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider
The question now being raised is: Will the BJP manage to hold on to its 20-year-old rule in Gujarat in the assembly elections at the end of this year? Will it manage to displace the Congress in Himachal Pradesh? Who will come out on top in the five states going to polls next year? Similarly, the biggest challenge looking the Opposition in the eye is making sure it doesn’t become extinct. Will the Congress manage to hold on to power in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Mizoram and Meghalaya? Can it wrest the assembly from the BJP in Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh? Will it need a Bihar-like grand coalition to do that?
Source:-Hindustantimes
