MODI-FIED BJP WINS CONSECUTIVE TERMS ACROSS STATES

Haryana is not the first state where the BJP has broken the long-held Assembly election trends.

- ABHINANDAN MISHRA

NEW DELHI W ith the win in Haryana, the BJP became the first political party in Haryana's electoral history to come back to power for the third consecutive time.

This is not the first state where the BJP has broken the long-held Assembly election trends of no party being repeated in a country where incumbents typically lose elections after a single term, a development that has primarily been attributed to the concept of "antiincumbency" that the party in power attracts.

However, what is common in all these record breaking trends is the fact that they have happened after 2014, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi came at the fore and assumed the role of the party's face, both at the national and the state level.

Analysis of Assembly election results shows that the BJP has made this record of reversing the electoral trends at the state level post the emergence of Narendra Modi in six states.