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.
In Phase 6, indications are that the BJP, which is defending 40 seats, will lose in double digits and gain in single digits.
Not good, if you are the ruling party scrambling to earn a working majority, with just one phase left to go, argues Prem Panicker.
While people voted in a fifth round that will set the tone as this election rounds into the straight, and while Modi on the stump chews the cud of personal grievances and hackneyed promises that have long since passed their use-by date, there is a rogue wave rising what damage it will do, we will know 16 days from today, observes Prem Panicker.
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