The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) victories in the Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh may have been expected, but nonetheless have implications for the future course of Indian politics and policy.
While in Himachal Pradesh, the margin of victory was quite comfortable, in Gujarat, which was more keenly followed because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s close association with the state, it was closer than perhaps what the BJP would have liked. But the BJP can take heart from the facts that it fought the five-term anti-incumbency successfully; its vote ...
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First Published: Mon, December 18 2017. 22:45 IST
