In India's ‘first-past-the-post’ system, there's a perverse incentive for political parties and candidates to overtly antagonise one section of voters to secure another section’s votes. ...
Attributing causes to electoral outcomes in a democracy form a serious exercise that needs to be carried out with extreme rigour and care by experts ...
In June, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in a report raised alarm over the deteriorating fiscal condition of state governments caused by rising expenditure on what they termed 'freebies'. ...
The common wisdom is that I will win in the next election but I don’t believe that. I think it is going to be the economy ...
Over the past few weeks, as is the norm, pre-election opinion polls for the state elections have been published widely across print, television and digital media. ...
Praveen Chakravarty writes: More often than not, they are used to influence voting behaviour, not reflect it ...