BUSINESS
Four reasons why Ashoka University researcher’s claims about electoral manipulation in 2019 polls are misleading
The research paper’s claims don’t factor in the emphatic nature of BJP’s 2019 win that broke many normal rules of politics, can’t explain BJP performance in non-BJP ruled states, doesn’t factor in the BJP’s superior campaign, nor does it offer any evidence from the grassroots on systemic fraud
POLITICS
Northeast Polls And BJP: Five Key Takeaways
Outside of the local political dynamics of Agartala, Kohima, and Shillong, the results of the latest assembly elections indicate that the processes that drove this wider reframing of the regional political chessboard over the last eight years by Modi’s new BJP have deepened and taken greater root
INDIA
Why Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura elections matter for national politics
The BJP won 14 of 25 Lok Sabha seats in the North East in 2019, emerging as the single largest party in the wider region
