This rings true as the election season in India draws to a close after nail-biting finish, though leaving room for some more twists and turns, perhaps in sync with a coalition era. Some called the counting of votes for the 18th Lok Sabha elections a "national thriller", while others used terms like "down to the wire contest". While the result came as a surprise, going back to reporters' diaries, looking at newspaper reports from the last 45 days, and exchanging notes with colleagues who travelled to different parts of the country during polling helped connect the dots. Of course, some things still don't add up.
In Gujarat, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had scored 26 out of 26 in 2014 and 2019, there was a setback in 2024 with a Congress candidate winning the Banaskantha seat. A rural district focused on dairy farming, Banaskantha was won by Geniben Nagaji Thakor, a woman candidate, who defeated BJP's Rekhaben Chaudhary, also a woman. Our ground reporting from across many constituencies of Gujarat had suggested unemployment, rising prices, and high taxes were among the concerns of the people, like in other parts of the country, besides local caste-based issues linked to Kshatriyas and Rajputs. In fact, the Kshatriya agitation, which was central in Rajkot and other Saurashtra regions, found expression even in north Gujarat's Banaskantha and Patan, where the community has a good presence.
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