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Thursday, October 2, 2025
TopicAnti-incumbency

Topic: Anti-incumbency

The developed world’s anti-incumbency wave & why the new RBI governor’s allowing rupee to be flexible

Global media also offers insight into why India is reaching out to the Taliban now, 3 years after Kabul fell & how Modi govt's 1st Kumbh is also the most politicised.

Incumbents have had a tough year, Right-wing populists are here to stay amid polarisation—Pew essay

Pew Research Center, in its essay, analyses trends of elections in over 60 countries in 2024 and finds right-wing populists doing extremely well in Western nations.

25 new faces, dynasts & defectors welcome. BJP’s all-out bid to counter anti-incumbency in Haryana

The BJP's first list of candidates shows party has shuffled constituencies of some MLAs, denied a minister a ticket, distributed most number of tickets among SCs, OBCs and Jats.

BJP dropped 43% of MPs for 2024 polls. Here’s how strategy fared for its strike rate in 2014, 2019

Data from 2019 and 2014 Lok Sabha elections shows that in 9 out of 10 constituencies where incumbents were dropped, BJP still won. It also did well in seats where incumbents were fielded.

AAP’s promises on trial: Public confrontations and protests mark Punjab’s election campaign

Anti-incumbency sentiments grow as AAP grapples with dissatisfaction & criticism over issues ranging from casteist remarks to farmer protests over compensation & unmet promises.

‘Gehlot se bair nahin, MLAs ki khair nahin’— why Congress’s bet on incumbents could backfire

CM Gehlot’s welfare schemes are popular, but Congress’s decision to field many sitting MLAs is causing discontent, including in east Rajasthan where party won 49 of its 100 seats in 2018.

6 reasons why 2019 is still Narendra Modi’s to lose

Narendra Modi is down but not out. Just because the BJP has lost critical state polls, which were dubbed ‘semi-finals’, there is no certainty that...

Scared of being dumped, Madhya Pradesh BJP MPs queue up for assembly tickets

The BJP led by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah is known to replace incumbent MPs and MLAs in elections to beat anti-incumbency.

Despite ‘Modi wave’ in Karnataka, it’s too early to write off opposition parties for 2019

Karnataka is the last politically significant Congress-ruled state swept by the ‘Modi wave’ that started in 2014.

Increase in voter turnout in India does not signal rise in anti-incumbent sentiment

The Indian press and public have largely sustained the notion that an increase in voter turnout signals anti-incumbent sentiment- especially in the run up to the May 2014 general election- but empirical investigations tell a different story.

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More Andhra-style prawn fry for Indian plates? How Naidu’s trying to blunt US tariff hit on aqua exports

Naidu attempts to shield aqua farmers after Trump’s tariff hits the shrimp farming sector in Andhra Pradesh, leading to the cancellation of 50% of the state's exports.

Finnish giant ICEYE to build signature radar microsatellites in India, offers full control to govt

Company builds microsatellites that are smaller, faster, cheaper to produce. ICEYE will develop & launch micro-satellites, hand them over to India, which will have full control & sovereignty.

Something’s hidden in the Oval Office photo of Trump, Munir, Sharif. India must look closely

What Munir has achieved with Trump is a return to normal, ironing out the post-Abbottabad crease. The White House picture gives us insight into how Pakistan survives, occasionally thrives and thinks.