“Assembly polls 2023: Modi remains X factor; women and tribals power BJP’s juggernaut”, First Post, December 3, 2023:
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has got a head-start for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls with emphatic victories in the Assembly elections in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. The Congress on the other hand has won a consolation victory in Telangana and lost badly in the above mentioned three states.
Here are some key takeaways from the assembly poll results:
Women and tribals: BJP’s new constituency
The voting pattern in the states shows that women and tribal voters have overwhelmingly supported the BJP. This supplemented the traditional vote base of the BJP in other backward castes, middle class and urban centres. In addition to other factors, the BJP owes its victory to the comeback it has made in the tribal belt of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. The factor which helped the party consolidate in this area is a division amongst the tribal vote on the issue of cancelling reservation under the Scheduled Tribe category for those tribals who have converted to Christianity.
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