What explains BJP’s performance in 2016 Assembly elections By Deepak Parvatiyar Published in http://www.elections.in/blog/what-explains-bjp-performance-in-2016-assembly-elections/ May 26, 2016 Following his party’s better show in recent elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala,Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, the BJP president Amit Shah, who till recently was struggling to explain the party’s debacles in Bihar and Delhi, attributed it to the voters’ approval of Modi government’s “pro-poor, pro-farmers and pro-village work”. Obviously, the BJP’s vote share increased in all these five states. This enabled the party to form its first ever government in Assam and open its account in Kerala assembly for the first ever time, what if just by a solitary win. What led to Enhanced Performance by the BJP? The question being debated is whether it was Modi’s policies or other factors, including the decline in the Congress’s popularity, that contributed to an enhanced perform
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