In their book The Verdict, authors Prannoy Roy and Dorab R. Sopariwala write how the ‘divide and rule’ strategy has been paying electoral dividends in India.
RJD, once a prominent representative of Mandal politics, now finds itself in a political era where welfare, good governance, and new aspirations are overshadowing old caste equations.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
The analysis made is really very simplistic. It assumes that the votes of the 2 parties automatically adds up in an alliance. However there are a lot of local factors. 2 parties who have been enemies for so long, their voters at the grassroot dont necessarily vote for the other party in the alliance. That means there is a certain reduction of votes in an alliance, which has to be taken into account, while analysing.
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The analysis made is really very simplistic. It assumes that the votes of the 2 parties automatically adds up in an alliance. However there are a lot of local factors. 2 parties who have been enemies for so long, their voters at the grassroot dont necessarily vote for the other party in the alliance. That means there is a certain reduction of votes in an alliance, which has to be taken into account, while analysing.