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How will the BJP's Lok Sabha tally change in the 2024 general elections?

The nine state assembly polls in 2023 will tell us which way the political winds are blowing before the country goes to polls in general elections 2024

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T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan
The year 2023 will see nine state Assembly elections, and India will have general elections in the early summer of 2024. So the next 16 months are going to be largely political. Will the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) employ an offensive or defensive strategy?

We can expect a lot of discussion and forecasting. But only one question needs answering: How many Lok Sabha seats will the BJP lose out of the 303 it won in 2019?

I had asked the same question in early 2019. The party had 273 seats then. A friend in BJP who read that article called and said
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