Heartland heartbreak-BJP gets a shock in MP, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh The election results will change the political map of India, with the Congress making a comeback in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh after 15 years
While the outcome of the Madhya Pradesh election still hung in the balance, the results of the five Assembly polls marked a resurgence of the Congress in northern India on the back of anger at the failure of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments at the Centre and in states to address agrarian distress and rural poverty. By voting the K Chandrashekar Rao government back to power in Telangana, the electorate rewarded the only state government that had a record of positively intervening to alleviate agrarian distress and put money in the rural economy. The Rao-led Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) swept the polls and increased its vote share by as much as 12 per cent.
Electorates in Mizoram, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan threw out the incumbent governments, and Madhya Pradesh seemed on the cusp of a change as well. The Congress secured a surprisingly convincing win in Chhattisgarh, ending Raman Singhled BJP’s 15-year term. Rajasthan has never elected an incumbent government in 25 years.The BJP lost, but the Congress just about managed to reach the halfway mark. In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress was nearer than the BJP to the halfway mark of 115 seats. Zoramthanga-led Mizo National Front ended the 10-year Congress rule in Mizoram. The election results will change the political map of India, with the Congress making a comeback in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh after 15 years. The results deal a body blow to the BJP’s hopes of reaching the majority mark in the Rajya Sabha in the years to come.The results will also decide the course of not just the winter session of Parliament, which began on Tuesday, but also the contours of the final Budget of the current tenure of the Modi government, and the READ
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