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    236 : India’s State Elections: A BJP Sweep and New Politics of Urban India

    Robin Jeffrey is Visiting Research Professor at the ISAS, Ronojoy Sen is Senior Research Fellow at ISAS

    12 December 2013

    The results of four state elections, announced on 8 December 2013, emphasise demographic and social changes that are affecting India more rapidly and profoundly than at any time since independence in 1947. They also foretell very deep problems for the Congress Party which leads India’s coalition government and which must go to the polls before May next year. It’s only in the small Northeast state of Mizoram, where the results were announced on December 9, that the Congress managed its sole victory.