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Prashant Kishor has only one challenge in India, and he s up for it

Prashant Kishor has only one challenge in India, and he s up for it
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What the Election Commission of India needs to learn about COVID and voting

Presidential elections were held in the United States in the peak of a countrywide COVID-19 outbreak in November 2020. The Donald Trump-led Republican campaign refused to tone down physical campaigning in light of the pandemic, for which they drew much flak. The Democrats did not do big rallies until the very end. This was part of the Trump administration’s COVID denial that ultimately cost them the election. Nevertheless, nobody has accused the actual election of becoming a COVID super spreader event. The Election Commission of India needs to study the US election and take some lessons from it. The usually laudable ECI has recently become a victim of its own hubris.

Hindu nationalism is a highly overestimated force in Indian elections

The Indian left and the right today agree on one thing: most Hindus in India, according to them, have drunk the Kool Aid of Hindutva, or Hindu nationalism. This is why, they both think, the Narendra Modi-led Bhartiya Janta Party can never lose elections. It will stay on in power forever, till kingdom come. Many liberals will tell you, for example, that even after the second wave of COVID, the BJP will likely win the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly election in March 2022 because the BJP’s chief minister in UP is the top Hindutva icon, Yogi Adityanath. The right-wing obviously agrees.

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