Religious Polarisation Outweighs Ethnic Mobilisation : Explaining NDA's Victory in Assam

The Assam assembly elections continued the trend towards deepening of religious polarisation in the state. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s alliance strategy helped in retaining its hold over the ethnic base that had shifted to the party in 2016.

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