Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly Polls: Multi-Cornered Contests By Deepak Parvatiyar October 10, 2014 Can the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) redo its Lok Sabha elections performance in the Assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana? Like the General Elections, the party is indeed banking on the anti-incumbency factor in these two Congress-ruled states and trying to rake it up by making corruption a poll issue. It hopes a fruitful piggyback ride on its star campaigner Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s charisma and oratorical skills. Modi is already campaigning hard and has addressed scores of election rallies in the two states and is scheduled to address many more. But can his magic work again this time too? General Elections and Vidhan Sabha Elections : Polls Apart Undoubtedly Modi’s rallies fetch crowd but aren’t the dynamics of state elections more localised than the General Elections? None other than the BJP itself knows it better. After all, it had made the blunder
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