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Sep 2, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Gautam Dheer |C.P. Chandrasekhar |Vaishna Roy
The BJP was a fairly insignificant player in the political landscape of Haryana until 2014. The Narendra Modi wave in the Lok Sabha election that year was enough to carry the BJP to a convincing victory in the Assembly election held later that year; the party won 47 of the 90 seats and tasted power on its own for the first time in the State.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Gautam Dheer |Greeshma Kuthar |Vaishna Roy
The outcome of the Lok Sabha election in Punjab, while presenting significant takeaways, also presents an interesting and intriguing paradox. On the one hand, the Congress, in spite of its tainted history of Operation Blue Star in 1984 and the anti-Sikh pogrom that followed, won seven of the 13 seats. On the other, in Khadoor Sahib and Faridkot constituencies, a parallel undercurrent on these sensitive issues polarised voters against the Congress and ensured the rise of radicals.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Sushanta Talukdar |Gautam Dheer |Anand Mishra |Ayesha Minhaz
The Congress has staged a comeback in the electoral politics of the north-eastern region, increasing its tally to 7 of the total of 25 seats in the region from 4 in 2019. Local Congress leaders attributed the improvement in the party’s performance to Rahul Gandhi starting his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Manipur and passing through most States in the region. The BJP still dominated the election by winning 13 seats, the maximum from the region, but its tally was lower than the 15 it won in 2019.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Gautam Dheer |Greeshma Kuthar |Vaishna Roy
The balanced outcome of the Lok Sabha election in Haryana has set the tone for the Assembly election in the State four months from now, with the Congress, as of now, the clear favourite. The June 4 electoral result showed the near total rout of the regional powers that once dominated the political landscape in this Jat-dominated State, and turned the contest in Haryana from a multi-cornered fight to a near bipolar contest.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Amey Tirodkar |Gautam Dheer |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Ilangovan Rajasekaran
The people of Maharashtra have spoken decisively against the revolving door politics of the past five years. The 2024 general election was the first test of public response to the political flux in the State since 2019, when the Shiv Sena’s Uddhav Thackeray broke his alliance with the BJP to form the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government with the Congress and Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP). In 2022, Eknath Shinde of his party usurped him by aligning with the BJP.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anand Mishra |Gautam Dheer |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Ilangovan Rajasekaran
In Bihar, where there are specific Lok Sabha seats identified as “Kurmistan”, “Chittorgarh”, and “Gope land”, indicating a particular caste’s dominance, the election result is a story of complex twists and turns, with some stereotypes broken and some reinforced. It is also a story of fluctuating fortunes, where a few emerged victorious after a long and tiring wait while others bit the dust.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Anand Mishra |Gautam Dheer |Ayesha Minhaz |M.G. Radhakrishnan
Six months before the Assembly election is to be held in Jharkhand, the loss of all five Lok Sabha seats reserved for Scheduled Tribes does not augur well for the BJP, which was trounced in the 2019 Assembly election when it was led by a non-tribal Chief Minister. Of the 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, the BJP could win only 8, including the reserved (Scheduled Caste) seat of Palamu. Its ally, the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), won Giridih, a non-reserved seat, in a triangular contest.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Saba Naqvi |Gautam Dheer |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Ilangovan Rajasekaran
“Love has illuminated my bodyMy inner self has brightenedMy words now have the fragrance of musk”—Kabir, 15th-century poet-philosopher from VaranasiIn the past decade, there appeared to be no limits to the exclusion-cum-violence, real and psychological, against India’s Muslims that the Narendra Modi regime and its ecosystem would not push. It seemed that many people did not care enough to oppose the segregation and profiling of minorities.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | G. N. Devy |Gautam Dheer |Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed |Ilangovan Rajasekaran
So much has already been said about the political outcome of Election 2024 in TV studios, newspaper columns, and stock markets and in conversations at homes, offices, and public spaces that it may seem that there is little to add. Yet, this election was so different from all previous elections, except the post-Emergency election of March 1977, that analysts, commentators, and historians will continue to discuss it for a long time to come.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
deccanherald.com | Gautam Dheer
Chandigarh: The striking fragment of results in Punjab turned out to be the stunning triumph of two Independents, both Sikh radicals including Amritpal Singh, a Khalistan ideologue and self-styled Sikh preacher currently lodged in Assam’s Dibrugarh jail under NSA charges.
