One In Five Voted; India’s Power Map Shifted

Much like the Congress party in the 50s and 60s, the BJP has become the default party of governance

It’s easy to be swept up. It’s easy to talk up the significance of this round of Assembly elections. After all, polls in five geographies—four states of the Union and one union territory—amount to a virtual mini-referendum. Think about it: one in five Indian voters has spoken across twenty-one per cent of Lok Sabha constituencies. And who would have thought these voters would show up in record numbers only to topple three chief ministers in one day? The carnage is unprecedented.

The I.N.D.I.A. bloc has borne the brunt. Even in Tamil Nadu, where it was favoured to win, it lost to a rank outsider. A Tollywood superstar, in a harkening back to an age that two generations of Tamils don’t remember. The BJP-led NDA has spared itself the ignominy that the I.N.D.I.A. bloc has arguably inflicted upon itself. The BJP has returned to power in Assam; its ally has dodged anti-incumbency in Puducherry.

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