Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Why Uttar Pradesh matters so much to the BJP in 2019
A column argued that, for all the complexity of India’s general elections, the 2019 outcome would turn largely on one question: how the Bharatiya Janata Party performs in Uttar Pradesh. The answer, it said, would decide whether India got another BJP majority government, a BJP-led coalition without a majority, or a government of non-BJP parties. The weight of Uttar Pradesh The column noted that analysis of the 2019 contest involved many factors: leadership, alliances on both sides, regional fault-lines and caste dynamics in each constituency. But it said UP hadRead More