Regional parties have been forced to construct a national narrative. For long, we have moved with assumptions that Caste A votes for this party and Caste B votes for that outfit. This also explains why disparate regional parties have sought to combine their old vote-banks to increase numbers. But the 2019 elections have shown that tolerance among younger voters to such assumptions is diminishing. If General Election 2019 is any yardstick, more churns are in the offing, both across parties and political spaces.

Source: Economic Times May 20, 2019 17:41 UTC