All Sitting Governments Overturned in Assembly Polls in Five States in India

-Rajesh Tyagi/ 11.3.2017

In an expected move, the voters in India have overrun the sitting governments, irrespective of their party affiliations, in five states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur.

This overrun is the pinnacle of disenchantment of the masses from the series of right-wing bourgeois governments that have succeeded each other in power since 1947. The anti-incumbency trend is crystal clear and is the only explanation to reversal of all the five sitting governments.

Assembly Polls in Five States, Ring the Death Knell for Stalinist Left

- Rajesh Tyagi/ 21.5.2016

The results of the recent 2016 Assembly polls in five states in India, are not beyond speculations. Results are demonstrative of a clear advance of right-wing BJP, a debacle for Congress and continued routing of Stalinists.

BJP has succeeded in sweeping polls in Assam, while Tamilnadu and West Bengal voting in favour of regional parties- the AIADMK led by J. Jayalalitha and TMC led by Mamata Banerjee respectively.

Poll results are clearly indicative of a continuing rightward swing in Indian politics in reversal of the left leaning in 2004 parliamentary elections and a lull in 2009.