Praveen Chakravarty, who heads the Congress’s data analytics team, says voters feel let-down by the Modi government and there is a strong sense of betrayal.
Historical precedence throws its weight behind the Congress as the people of Rajasthan have elected Congress and BJP governments in alternation for the past 25 years.
In the 2013 state assembly polls, the Congress had secured 40.3 per cent of the vote share and 39 seats, which was not far from the BJP’s 41.18 per cent and 49 seats.
The Congress-led Opposition, under the banner of Praja Maha Kutami (People’s Alliance), consisting of its erstwhile bête-noire Telugu Desam Party, the Telangana Jana Samithi and CPI, are extremely optimistic of giving a tough fight to the TRS in the coming polls.
The Congress, with its shrinking but small and loyal voter base, could play a significant role to soar up the collective fortunes of the anti-BJP camp as well as win a dignified number of seats for itself.
Overall turnout in municipal polls in the Kashmir region was a mere 8.3 per cent in the first phase, 3.4 in the second, 3.5 in the third and 4.2 in the fourth and final phase held on October 16.
Goa, beer experts say, sat out the first round of the brew-pub frenzy across India’s big cities for nearly a decade. But it is ringing in the second flush of these strange brews.
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