Shikha Mukerjee | Each election is different: No single formula fits all

The results of the high-profile Assembly elections in Maharashtra and the less-conspicuous Jharkhand election are intriguing because of what they reveal as deliberate choices by voters in very different circumstances with very different political cultures and social as well as economic histories. The incendiary slogans “Batenge to Katenge” and “Ek hain to safe hain” reportedly galvanised voters in Maharashtra, mobilised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and it worked, as the mandate proves. In Jharkhand the same RSS formula aided by the provocative Himanta Biswa Sharma and earnest hardliner Shivraj Singh Chouhan bombed.

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