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In nearly 100 seats, the BJP stands almost no chance of winning.In 200 seats, it is a direct fight between the BJP and the Congress where the BJP has an upper hand.In 243 seats, the BJP is pitted against regional parties and it is not going to be easy.That is why 400 seats may end up as a pipe dream, states Ramesh Menon, author of Modi Demystified: The Making of a Prime Minister. IMAGE: Bharatiya Janata Party leader Narendra D Modi addresses an election rally in Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh, ...

This time Modi has no emotive message to take to the stump. Muscular nationalism doesn't work against the backdrop of China's successive inroads into Indian territory. Rising prices is a sore point that cuts across class and caste barriers; unprecedented levels of unemployment has the youth in a ferment. This has reduced the BJP campaign to a laundry list of recycled grievances and thinly veiled communal appeals, neither of which are working as well as they have in the past, argues Prem ...

The curtains came down Wednesday evening on a high-voltage campaigning for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls in 88 seats across 13 states on April 26. IMAGE: BJP candidate for Mathura, Hema Malini holds a roadshow on the last day of the election campaign for the Lok Sabha election, in Mathura on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo Staggered over seven stages, the first phase of the elections held last Friday for 102 seats across 21 states and Union territories saw a voter ...

IMAGE: An electoral officer demonstrates the functioning of an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) during a training programme for women polling officials ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Guwahati, April 8, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo   In the first such initiative, the Bharatiya Janata Party has invited the ruling and Opposition parties from around the world to witness the Lok Sabha elections in India first-hand. The Communist party of China ...