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Reverse Swing: Indian General Election 2019 (Book 3)
Its back for 2019!
Welcome to the IGE2019 series.
I wrote four books on the Indian General Election of 2014 (IGE 2014) and they are here:
Book 1: The Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published September 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00FBZJFN2
Book 2: Numbers. Forecasting the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published December 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00HG6YG0Q
Book 3: Wrath of the Gods: The Aam Aadmi Party in the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published January 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00I5CHU4Y
Book 4: The Result of the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published May 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00KOS9FPE
I wrote the IGE2014 books in isolation, starting June 2013, sitting and tapping away at my desk until the books were completed, and I published them one by one, even before the election concluded, because I wanted to write about it as it unfolded. There was a very specific reason for the way I wrote those books, and that was George Orwell's advice:
"...To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. One thing that helps toward it is to keep a diary, or, at any rate, to keep some kind of record of one's opinions about important events. Otherwise, when some particularly absurd belief is exploded by events, one may simply forget that one ever held it. Political predictions are usually wrong. But even when one makes a correct one, to discover why one was right can be very illuminating..."
- George Orwell (http://orwell.ru/library/articles/nos...)
Now it's back, earlier in the election cycle, more experienced author, for the IGE2019 series, and this is the third book in the series. The first is at: https://www.amazon.in/Game-Begins-Gen... and the second at https://www.amazon.in/War-Ghosts-Gene...
In December 2017 the tide turned. In the Gujarat Assembly election, at by elections in UP and Rajasthan, and in Assembly elections at Karnataka, the BJP suffered defeats or managed only small victories. The BJP made a sharp right turn to rebuild its electoral position, reigniting the Ram Temple movement, appointing Yogi Adityanath as its key campaigner, and creating massive protests at Sabrimala. On the other side the Congress attacked the government for corruption in the Rafale deal, it attacked the government for its poor economic record, and for its 'intolerance.'
It all came to a head in December 2018 in keenly fought elections for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram. The BJP governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh fell, but the Congress's victory was much narrower that expected. It lost in Telangana and Mizoram.
We are now on the home stretch to the General Election in April - May 2019. Can Modi fashion a repeat of the 2014 campaign and demolish the Congress the way he did in 2014?
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Bhuwan Singh writes on Indian politics and publishes on Facebook and Kindle. Kindly "Like” the Facebook page to be alerted on future Facebook posts. https://www.facebook.com/bhuwansinghw.... You can buy his books at http://www.amazon.in/Bhuwan-Singh/e/B....
Welcome to the IGE2019 series.
I wrote four books on the Indian General Election of 2014 (IGE 2014) and they are here:
Book 1: The Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published September 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00FBZJFN2
Book 2: Numbers. Forecasting the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published December 21, 2013 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00HG6YG0Q
Book 3: Wrath of the Gods: The Aam Aadmi Party in the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published January 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00I5CHU4Y
Book 4: The Result of the Indian General Election of 2014 (First Published May 31, 2014 on Amazon Kindle), available at http://www.amazon.in/dp/B00KOS9FPE
I wrote the IGE2014 books in isolation, starting June 2013, sitting and tapping away at my desk until the books were completed, and I published them one by one, even before the election concluded, because I wanted to write about it as it unfolded. There was a very specific reason for the way I wrote those books, and that was George Orwell's advice:
"...To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. One thing that helps toward it is to keep a diary, or, at any rate, to keep some kind of record of one's opinions about important events. Otherwise, when some particularly absurd belief is exploded by events, one may simply forget that one ever held it. Political predictions are usually wrong. But even when one makes a correct one, to discover why one was right can be very illuminating..."
- George Orwell (http://orwell.ru/library/articles/nos...)
Now it's back, earlier in the election cycle, more experienced author, for the IGE2019 series, and this is the third book in the series. The first is at: https://www.amazon.in/Game-Begins-Gen... and the second at https://www.amazon.in/War-Ghosts-Gene...
In December 2017 the tide turned. In the Gujarat Assembly election, at by elections in UP and Rajasthan, and in Assembly elections at Karnataka, the BJP suffered defeats or managed only small victories. The BJP made a sharp right turn to rebuild its electoral position, reigniting the Ram Temple movement, appointing Yogi Adityanath as its key campaigner, and creating massive protests at Sabrimala. On the other side the Congress attacked the government for corruption in the Rafale deal, it attacked the government for its poor economic record, and for its 'intolerance.'
It all came to a head in December 2018 in keenly fought elections for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram. The BJP governments in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh fell, but the Congress's victory was much narrower that expected. It lost in Telangana and Mizoram.
We are now on the home stretch to the General Election in April - May 2019. Can Modi fashion a repeat of the 2014 campaign and demolish the Congress the way he did in 2014?
*
Bhuwan Singh writes on Indian politics and publishes on Facebook and Kindle. Kindly "Like” the Facebook page to be alerted on future Facebook posts. https://www.facebook.com/bhuwansinghw.... You can buy his books at http://www.amazon.in/Bhuwan-Singh/e/B....
285 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 18, 2018
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