While the BJP is beset with internal troubles in Goa, UP and Uttarakhand, the Congress has its own troubles. Most of all, its landslide performance in UP in 2014 is going to prove a burden for the BJP. Voters not only upheld the BJP as a party but more than that, they pinned their hopes on Modi. Modi represented the sentiment against the decade-long Congress government and he also represented the hope that the BJP would set things right. Whether Modi and the BJP would be similarly able to dramatise the electoral arena in the coming round of state elections is therefore a big question.

Source: Indian Express January 27, 2017 18:33 UTC