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Folklore, Fallacies And Elections 2019
Why sops, wars, roads, reforms ≠ votes. Shankkar Aiyar warns against reading too much into conventional ‘political logic’.
07 May 2019, 06:37 PM IST
In the late 1980s, when the Bharatiya Janata Party was making its mark on the political map, Atal Bihari Vajpayee addressed a meeting in Marathwada in Maharashtra. The response was overwhelming and Pramod Mahajan, who was accompanying Vajpayee said, “Atalji if the voting and counting were to be conducted now, we could count this seat in.” Vajpayee, a seasoned campaigner, gently told Mahajan “Pramod voting karwa lo, counting rahne do ...
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