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ISSUE DATE: December 28, 2020
UPDATED: December 18, 2020 23:42 IST
Charging ahead: Union home minister and BJP leader Amit Shah at the Charminar in Hyderabad during the GHMC poll campaign, Nov. 28
In the 2019 general election, Karnataka was the only state in the south where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) notched up more than half the vote share (51.4 per cent). The five states in the region send 129 members to Parliament, so it was no surprise that a concerted campaign was launched to enlarge the saffron footprint before 2024 and the next Lok Sabha election. The party also knew that for this to happen, leveraging the state assembly election was crucial like it did in Karnataka in 2018 (it polled 36.2 per cent of the vote and fell just nine short of the majority in the 224-seat house).
Left turn in Kerala
Congress is the loser in local bodies polls, as CPM regains ground lost in 2019 general election. Updated: December 18, 2020 9:06:49 am
This is a standoff nobody had bargained for. Certainly not the Modi government, while steamrolling the legislation first via the ordinance route and then through Parliament.
The results of Kerala’s local bodies polls would be a big relief for the ruling Left Democratic Front (LDF), which fought the polls battling corruption allegations. The Front bucked anti-incumbency to win five of the state’s six municipal corporations one more than in 2015 besides making gains in central Kerala, a stronghold of the Congress-led United Democratic Front. Though it managed to win a majority of municipalities, the UDF has reasons to worry about its insipid performance, less than six months before the assembly election. The BJP improved its tally in all the tiers, but has failed to consolidate its ri