With its allies driving a hard bargain and opposition parties huddling together to forge a front, BJP doesn’t want to antagonise relatively less unfriendly forces.
State Congress president Niranjan Patnaik lists the challenges his party faces in Odisha, says it’s difficult but not impossible for Congress to dislodge the ruling BJD.
Naveen Patnaik’s uninterrupted winning streak is due to his spartan image, TINA factor in Odisha and a combination of economic growth and populist measures.
Don’t call him to your place the first time. He could be a stalker who now has your address. Or worse. He overstays his welcome, clogs your toilet, picks his nails, and snores.
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
It would have been easier to expand the ruling party’s geographical spread to non conventional areas if it had a solid inventory of successes in Delhi and the states to showcase.
It would have been easier to expand the ruling party’s geographical spread to non conventional areas if it had a solid inventory of successes in Delhi and the states to showcase.