What will the factionalism within the Congress mean for its prospects in Kerala?
Now that Himanta Biswa Sarma is contesting in Assam, even though he said he didn’t want to, is there likelihood of a change in chief minister if the Bharatiya Janata Party returns to power?
But this week we are looking at a couple of developments a little further away from the election spotlight that tell us more about how the BJP is working to entrench its dominance of Indian politics. The obvious caveat to any discussion of BJP success is that Indian politics simply does not present a level playing field to all, which is what we covered on last week’s edition of the newsletter.
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The Big Story: Thumb on scale
Over the next two months, political coverage everywhere in India – including on this newsletter – will be preoccupied with the upcoming elections, in Puducherry, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Assam and West Bengal. In news stories, the nationally dominant Bharatiya Janata Party will most likely be treated as the challenger that it is in each of these states (barring Assam where it is the incumbent0.
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