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Ifs and buts of Elections 2019

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Other Scripts

I am not a psephologist, neither do I owe the ability to perfectly predict what goes on inside mind of
Indians. Social scientists of variety have been at it to tell us who will win, whose winnability is it this
time in Indian Parliamentary elections. Facebook’s, WhatsApp and so on, they are all over it. Hats off
to their ability.

I got inspired and thought I will also try my hand at this very attractive vocation. So I asked the
question to myself: who will win the General Elections 2019? I don’t have a clear cut answer and that
is an answer in itself because it does not seem like a wave – a clean sweep that we saw in 2014. Then I
went on to see what if

What if SP-BSP alliance wins around 40-45 seats in UP

What if Congress performs a little better in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh following
their win in assembly elections thereby preventing 2014 repeat performance for BJP there

What if DMK-Congres combine performs well and takes away at least 75% seats in Tamil Nadu

What if Congress-JD(S) combine manage to get half of seats in Karnataka and Left does the same in
Kerala

What if TMC wins around 34-36 seats in Bengal

What if North East does not repeat itself as 2014

With such ifs BJP may not retain the position it held in 2014. This would mean that some other
political forces might form the next government. And given that it is all about ifs and buts this may
or may not happen. What is important is to think about what will happen if there is a new
government – new political forces who claim to represent a counter-narrative to the earlier regime?

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