Who else do we know who meditated so with such impeccable timing (much of the Lok Sabha elections over and with only the last phase to go) and hordes for unsolicited defence of the grand meditation at public expense? asks Shyam G Menon.
The best-case scenario is that the BJP will top out at around 50 seats in UP a drop of 12 from the 62 it had won in 2019.
Taken in tandem with Maharashtra and Karnataka, this is what is likely to put paid to the BJP s ambitions of a third term for Modi, argues Prem Panicker.
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