 "BJP workers burst fire-crackers to celebrate their victory in Gandhinagar")
BJP’s electoral juggernaut rolls on
The juggernaut of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) electoral victories rolled on unimpeded: in March the party won the Uttarakhand, and Goa elections, followed by its spectacular showing in Uttar Pradesh and capped, in December, by its performance in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh. However, Narendra Modi’s magic did not work in Punjab where angry at the nepotism of its ally, the Shiromani Akali Dal, the voters rejected the BJP and installed the Congress in power. The Punjab verdict has unsettling implications for the alliance in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections as
