Besides, they claimed, ruling a state for twenty-two years, as the BJP has done in Gujarat, is bound to produce an inevitable anti-incumbency reflux. The fact, as some friends from Gujarat explained to me recently, is that Delhi doesn’t understand Gujarat, or for that matter, most other parts of India. Not only because the surveys have been predicting a victory for BJP, but because of the enormous efforts by the party. Clearly, when it comes to Gujarat, the home state of both PM Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah, failure is not an option. Unless something totally unexpected upsets the political applecart, the BJP is all set to win Gujarat.

Source: dna December 02, 2017 01:52 UTC