OFFERING a much-needed breather to the Indian polity, the Lok Sabha election results have created valuable scope for course correction in the country’s slide away from democratic politics. The crucial necessity of parties like the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and the Janata Dal-United (U) for the new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government alongside a numerically stronger opposition in the Parliament, in particular, the near-doubled representation of the Congress and the enhanced presence of regional parties, is likely to halt what seemed an unstoppable Hindu majoritarian politics over the last decade.
How did south India fare vis-à-vis the election outcome that has offered a relief of sorts to democratically minded Indians?
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