And if this wasn’t enough, the BJP had other aspects of its majoritarian brand of nationalism to rely on. “By the arithmetic, it may look like a hands-down win for the alliance in Uttar Pradesh, but it’s not going to be easy. Political pillow talkIt was trisyllabic, the city’s typical response to who would win this year’s elections: “BJP". But then, whichever way Uttar Pradesh tilts the country this summer, almost everybody could say they told me so. On a tiny sample of sentiment in the state’s capital, my hunch was that Amit Shah’s playbook wouldn’t pull his party through.

Source: Mint May 02, 2019 17:03 UTC