Until voter fatigue set in to break the Congress Party’s grip over India’s corridors of power in 1967, the political situation in the country was pretty similar to what it is today except that BJP has replaced the Congress. There is hardly any precedence to relate the present situation. Even in 1977 when late Indira Gandhi was unseated following emergency, the situation of the Congress party was not like what it became in 2014 and 2019. After its victory in the 2014 elections, there was a wide perception that BJP has acquired virtual political monopoly. This perception surfaced again when they returned with a bigger mandate. However there have been instances where the BJP has been convincingly defeated and outsmarted. The defeat of BJP in Bihar (2015), Delhi (2015 & 2020), Maharashtra (2019) and Chhattisgarh (2018) show that this election machine can be defeated (I have not mentioned West Bengal because I don’t see it as a defeat of BJP). Can this be replicated in 2024? D...
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