The Uttar Pradesh (UP) state elections of 2017 saw the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, script an unprecedented and unexpected landslide victory in the state.
In this episode of the podcast CPR researchers Neelanjan Sircar, Bhanu Joshi, and Ashish Ranjan, who spent months conducting intensive field research, draw on their experience and analyse available data to deconstruct BJP's victory, as well as what it means for UP's future, and for the general elections of 2019.
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