Scroll.in Election Watch: Gilles Verniers, Basim-u-Nissa, Mohit Kumar & Neelesh Agrawal bring you 25 charts that show how the Trinam...
Scroll.in Election Watch:
- Gilles Verniers, Basim-u-Nissa, Mohit Kumar & Neelesh Agrawal bring you
25 charts that show how the Trinamool Congress conclusively beat the BJP in West Bengal. - The same team also analysed the new Bengal assembly in 28 charts, finding fewer Muslims, more Scheduled Caste MLAs – and not much youth.
- They also looked at the results in Assam, with 29 charts that show just how polarised the election was.
- And examined Assam’s new assembly in 30 charts, finding fewer women, more Muslims – and more crorepatis.
- Shoaib Daniyal brings you seven reasons why Mamata Banerjee crushed BJP in Bengal.
- Seeman’s aggressive Tamil nationalism strikes a chord, winning more votes than Kamal Haasan and AMMK in Tamil Nadu, writes Sruthisagar Yamunan.
- Welfare, Hindutva and Bengali nativism: Indrajit Roy writes about the political ideas that shaped the 2021 West Bengal polls.
- What tripped up the BJP in West Bengal? Nazes Afroz says it is the party’s failure to understand one critical element of Bengali culture.
Election reads
- Rahul Verma has five lessons from five assembly polls including how they expose the limits of the BJP’s strategy of over-relying on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma.
- “What has historically distinguished the BJP and continues to distinguish it from all other parties is the project of majoritarianism. In Assam, the BJP did not require it this time but has already manoeuvred a space on that basis;...
