The Congress Party: From Evolution To Devolution
by Venu Gopal Narayanan - May 3, 2021 01:43 PM
A Congress supporter waves the party flag during the road show of the All India Congress Committee president Rahul Gandhi in Bengaluru. (Arijit Sen/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
Snapshot
An analysis of what the Congress has been reduced to in Kerala, and why that is a reflection of what is happening to the party in other states.
German naturalist Ernst Haeckelâs biogenetic theory posits that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
It is a powerful aphorism which states that ontogeny, meaning the growth of an organism, mirrors phylogeny, or the evolution of a taxonomic group.
Key Takeaways From Kerala Verdict 2021
by Venu Gopal Narayanan - May 3, 2021 07:51 AM
Kerala elections 2021
A rejuvenated Left, a bumbling Congress, and a lost BJP.
The Left Democratic Front (LDF) of Pinarayi Vijayan has been returned in Kerala with an enhanced mandate, for a unique, second consecutive term.
The coalitionâs senior partner, Communist Party of India (Marxist), the CPM, alone won 62 seats in a house of 140. This marks the start of a new phase of politics in the state.
The starkest election trend is that where the Left won, they won big, while where the Congressâs United Democratic Front (UDF) won, they did so by slender margins.
In Maps: How Congress Is Being Squeezed Out Of Keralaâs Electoral Space
by Venu Gopal Narayanan - Apr 5, 2021 09:07 AM
Rahul Gandhi with party leaders in Kerala.
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The Congress swansong is being composed by the BJP, who have taken away the bulk of the UDFâs traditional Nair vote.
True electoral analysis begins where psephology ends. At that point, analysts must put aside their probabilistic assessments and forecasts to cut to the actual nature and meaning of a mandate.
In that sense, a really useful analysis is one which draws out the motivations of political groups in adopting specific campaign strategies, and the extent to which they appeal to or are dependent upon various communities so as to quantify that which we intuitively gauge from voting patterns.
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