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.