Congress’s Coalition Dilemma and Other Crises in 2016 Elections
For a child initiated to English medium schooling, it is well impossible to avoid the “great fall” that Humpty Dumpty had. Can the century-old Indian National Congress’ drubbing at 2016 Assembly...
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How Close Were the Exit Poll Results in 2016 Elections?
Do exit polls matter? Are exit polls reliable? The truth is, if conducted properly with the right sample size, exit polls should be able to predict election results accurately. An exit poll is a type...
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Modi Government Completes Two Years in Power: Are ‘Ache Din’ Here?
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his NDA 2 government completes two years in office on 26 May 2016. Modi came to power on the back of raging anti-incumbency. The Indian electorate was palpably...
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What explains BJP’s performance in 2016 Assembly elections
Following his party’s better show in recent elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala,Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the BJP president Amit Shah, who till recently was struggling to explain the party’s...
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Dayashankar Singh: The Man Who Turned Around the Script of UP Assembly...
In case you didn’t know, elections to the state legislative assembly of the politically significant state of Uttar Pradesh are due early next year. Politically significant because it sends the largest...
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Who Will Be the Next CM of UP?: The Race Heats Up
With just about six months to go for Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2017, the political scenario is all heated up in the state. Now the big question on everyone’s mind is who is going to form the...
View ArticleThe Samajwadi Party Family Feud: Who Gains? Who Loses?
While voters in Uttar Pradesh are all too familiar with pre-election drama, discontentment and defections every five years, what is happening within the Samajwadi Party now is unprecedented. Trouble...
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Powered by favourable wave, BJP appears ready to sink Rawat’s boat in...
In Uttarakhand, like elsewhere, political parties are besieged with the problem of plenty and turncoats. Despite this, in the small hilly state which is going for a single-phase poll on February 15,...
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SP-Congress alliance may prove deadly combination in UP
After months of talks, and weeklong high drama in the bungalows of Lutyens’ Delhi and Lucknow, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress finally sealed their pre-poll alliance deal for Uttar Pradesh...
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BJP may struggle to regain power in Goa
It is battle of nerves for the BJP and the Congress in Goa, a small state with just 40 assembly seats. Going for the poll on February 4, what is unnerving strategists of these two national level...
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Change and stability factor in tough Manipur electoral battle
Remaining always in the grip of crisis out of militancy, fake encounters, territorial integrity, blockades and violence, Manipur today symbolizes chaos and unpredictability. According to an estimate,...
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Punjab to witness close contest between Congress and AAP
Mist over voters’ priority in Punjab assembly election has to a large extent evaporated. Earlier confusion among electorate as to whom they will vote for this time round, has started disappearing....
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Large voters’ turnout spells good for democracy in Punjab and Goa
Amid tight security, the Election Commission’s close watch which included large scale use of CCTV cameras in voting booths, polls conducted for Punjab’s 117 assembly seats and Goa’s 40 assembly seats,...
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UP Election 2017: Record 65 percent turnout in first phase indicates...
Electoral pundits often say that it is Western Uttar Pradesh that actually sets the trend of voting in the state. They appear to be right as around 65 percent voters participated in the first phase of...
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High Turnout of Voters in Uttarakhand, gives high hopes for change
In the do and die battle for the ruling Congress in Uttarakhand, only good performance at hills and plane can keep it away from defeat. In the last election in the state, the party did well in the...
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In SP’s bastion, less than expected voters’ turnout fuels guessing games
Over 61 percent turnout in third phase Across Uttar Pradesh, if the Samajwadi Party’s “Kaam Bolta Hai” slogan has to submit to the voters’ acceptability test in real terms, it is in the state’s all 12...
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More Than 57 Percent Turnout in Fifth Phase
In the long and arduous seven-phase assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, the fifth phase polls for 51 seats saw 57.36 percent voting. Despite this, electioneering for this round of polls remained...
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As Modi hits Varanasi with mega show, 6th phase polls remain peaceful
If election is a matter of crude mathematics, all political parties in the fray use all means, including muscle and money power to solve that mathematics in accordance with their capacity and...
View ArticleAssembly Elections Exit Poll 2017
Big gains for BJP in UP, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, SAD falls in Punjab The long awaited Exit polls are out and they would be tested on March 11 when the actual results are declared. In the past the...
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Why Did the BJP Win in Uttar Pradesh?
The ‘Modi wave’ stormed Uttar Pradesh, pulverizing Akhilesh-led Samajwadi Party and Mayawati-headed BSP to mere debris. This spectacular performance by the saffron party left far behind its own...
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