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As the year 2024 draws near, general elections in India will bring about a drastic shift in the country's political landscape. There is much conjecture, alliance-building, and strategy development happening in the world's greatest democracy. How are things in Indian politics right now, and what can we anticipate in the months leading up to the next general election? Problems Facing the Current Administration With a resounding win in 2019, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has remained in office continuously since 2014. But the second term has been fraught with difficulties, from the COVID-19 epidemic to the huge farmer protests that led to the revocation of agricultural legislation. The BJP has had a tepid showing in state elections, losing ground...

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Success BJP In Dhamnagar Bypoll Deals Blow To BJD’s Sense Of Invincibility

Sayani ChakrabortyNovember 9, 20220

Since losing the Dhamnagar assembly bypoll to the Bharatiya Janata Party, Naveen Patnaik and the BJD have gone winless in Odisha (BJP). Saffron won this coastal seat by 9,881 votes.The BJD hasn't lost a state by-election since the 2019 general elections, when it won a fifth straight term as the state's ruling party with a supermajority of 112 in the assembly of 147. Since 2019, it had won every byelection, including the 2020 Balasore Sadar seat from the BJP. The BJP lost Balasore Sadar, bringing its total assembly seats to 22, although it remains the state's main opposition, a distinction it acquired from the Congress in 2019. Despite the BJP fielding Suryabanshi Suraj, the son of former MLA Bishnu Charan Sethi, who had died, most BJD leaders were confident of regaining the seat ...