The Bihar Assembly elections, scheduled for October-November, are important in many ways. This is because, in these elections, the reputation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is more at stake than that of Bihar Prime Minister Nitish Kumar.
Regular polls in newspapers and television news channels have been saying that Prime Minister Modi’s popularity remains intact. But is it really?
Disregarding the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP has failed to obtain any major victories in the State Assembly elections held in the last five years. Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat are exceptions to this. Note that all of these elections were held under Modi’s leadership, and the BJP had applied all its might to win.
Elections to the Assembly were held from November 8, 2015 to February 11, 2020 in 18 important and politically important states of the country. What is surprising is that the BJP lost elections in 16 of these states. UP was the only state where BJP saw a resounding victory. The BJP barely achieved a victory in Gujarat and, after losing in Haryana, formed a coalition.
Another thing is that after losing the elections, the BJP managed to form a government in three states by other means. These states are Karnataka, Bihar, and Madhya Pradesh. Other states do not yet have a BJP government
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