Topic: Anti-incumbency

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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.