The case for holding simultaneous elections in the diverse, federal Indian polity is weak...
Apparently, “there is something in the New Delhi air"...
India’s elections are neither as expensive as it is thought to be nor does it have to be as disruptive to national governance as it is made out to be...
Nitish Kumar, the Chief Minister of Bihar, is a very popular leader in that state, with virtues of probity in public life and governance focus on development...
The BJP won 121 assembly constituencies in Bihar in the 2014 Lok Sabha election...
Do most Indians really care about who governs Uttar Pradesh and Punjab?...
The crowd cheers for Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an election rally in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, ahead of the upcoming elections to the state's legislature...
Should the BJP secure less than 200 seats, it would go down as one of the most notable vote-share swings in history...
Simultaneous elections for State Assemblies and Parliament can have a tangible, and perhaps undesirable, impact on voter behaviour...