AFTER ANY ELECTION, particularly after a clutch of state elections, there will be a lot of noise. The victors will celebrate loudly and there will be noisy recriminations among the followers of the losing parties. The relative calm after the results of elections in four states were announced was unusual.
If this is evidence of mature behaviour of rival political parties, we may welcome it.
If this means nonchalance on the part of the Congress, it is a matter of worry.
Let me begin with a mea culpa. In last week's column, I called the election in Chhattisgarh in favour of the Congress. I was wrong. The BJP was the winner by a handsome margin of 54 seats to 35. The Congress claimed the state from the start and nearly all pollsters accepted the claim.
I accepted it too, based on conversations with a number of people. Everyone but the BJP was surprised by the result. It turned out that the Congress'vote share declined in general, SC and ST seats. Congress lost 14 ST seats it had won in 2018 to the BJP. That sealed its fate.
Not unexpected However, you will recall that I did not buy into the claims of the Congress in respect of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
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