The Final Phase 2 PM looks at the contrast of two military states
India is a civilizational state and her interactions with democracy cannot be dictated by the west
Is there any sympathy for Kejriwal? How is the relative strength of Modi wave
How is the election finally shaping up? The Evening Report of Phase 6
As Mumbai votes, we look at how it is looking at 2 PM
The 2 PM report of phase 4 election focussing on Telangana and Andhra
The Phase 3 of Election 2024: A 2 PM report Focussed on Karnataka
Yadgir assembly segment in northern Karnataka is a rare seat which had elected anti-Congress leaders for four straight elections after independence. Local folklore, therefore tells the story of 1978, when Mrs Indira Gandhi came on a chopper, waved her hands at the waiting thousands of people and flew back.
One of the unique features of Indian election is that trends are always expanding and rarely do they ever change. We Indians have this unique ability to collectively arrive at decisions and then homogenously execute that decision region after region. Unlike say the US, where verdicts keep altering from one state to another, we are more of a consciously uniform society in our political thinking barring a few states like a Tamil Nadu or a Kerala.
The year was 1988 and there was a special booth in the Talkatora stadium of Delhi where thousands of workers including MLAs, panchayat leaders and district unit chiefs would stand in que to enter their details on a “computer” in that special session of the Congress party.
The post-COVID electorate of India has been a bit shifty as we have observed in quite a few assembly elections. From Bihar to Bengal to Karnataka to Chhattisgarh, a substantial chunk of voters have changed their stance on voting day, either for purely transactional reasons
History is a culmination of Human willpower, not merely an art of record keeping. When Arulmozhi Varman was hailed as “K?ndal?r ??lai Kalam-arutta” – the destroyer of K?ndal?r, the present day Kerala – he attained greatness so unparalleled that he was bequeathed the title of “emperor of emperors”, the Raja Raja Chola. His primary ambition was to create a stable and integral Chola empire, creating history was merely an afterthought.
The 2019 election was the then peak of the BJP and NDA at the national level that was not achieved by any party or alliance since 1991 (breaching the 35th percentile). As it is, maintaining that high watermark of the 2019 performance is a herculean task in itself, especially considering that BJP and its allies had peaked in most of its core states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, MP, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka and even Maharashtra.
Almost exactly a decade ago, on the 7 th of April, 2014, something very unusual was unfolding in the sleepy north-eastern town of Jorhat that would have far reaching consequences on Indian politics. Today, it all seems like preordained destiny, but back then, without the benefit of hindsight, political trends were still quite fuzzy and unclear.
