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Election Results: Rage of the Dispossessed Overthrows BJP in UP and Beyond

The 2024 election results have signalled a demand for change. Despite crossing the 272 mark, PM Modi faces a personal defeat that reflects the voters' rejection of symbolic politics in favour of addressing real issues like unemployment and inflation.

By Sanjay Kapoor
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There should be no confusion in anyone’s mind: the election results of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls mandate change and not the status quo.

It may be true that the election results show that the BJP is closest to the magical number of 272 and safely bridges the gap through the support of its demanding allies, but it is the INDIA bloc that did the impossible. It ran a coherent campaign led by Congress and its leader, Rahul Gandhi, to defend democracy and the constitution. It also took cognisance of the pain of the millions of unemployed youths languishing without jobs and announced a program to correct the course of a government that had forgotten its responsibilities. Supported by Akhilesh Yadav, Uddhav Thackeray, and MK Stalin, the INDIA alliance came close to clinching the coveted numbers under difficult and attenuating circumstances where their funds were frozen and some of their allies were thrown in jail. If this election had been fought between two equal parties on a level playing field, the BJP would have been decimated.

This wave against the BJP was visible in UP, which was presented as a state that would deliver the goodies or 70 seats for the BJP. Instead, they got only 35. They would have gotten far less if most of the Dalits had voted against the BJP, as a vast majority did. 

Everywhere this writer went during the elections, this writer found people enjoying newfound freedom. They w

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