Abstract: For those who have been following Indian politics, this has been quite an exciting year. It culminated in an election where over five weeks, 550 million Indians—66 percent of the electorate—turned out to vote. And what we got at the end of it is a historic result. The upshot of the 2014 election made BJP the India's premier national party and the Congress has been reduced to a regional party of two states in southern India and two districts in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP’s single-handed majority in the Lok Sabha is noteworthy for two reasons. First, no party has achieved this feat after 1984. Second, no party has received more than 30 per cent of the total votes after the 1991 Lok Sabha elections. Such tectonic shifts are rare in a democratic polity. The BJP’s tremendous victory in this election is not only a reflection of the personal popularity of Narendra Modi, and utter disenchantment with the Congress-led government, but also of terrific campaign planning. The good news for BJP just keeps pouring in while for Congress which has lost the official right to be the opposition party, it indeed is time for some serious introspection.
Keywords: Political Geographer Perspective, BJP Landslide Victory in 2014 General Election.
Title: BJP Landslide Victory in 2014 General Election: A Political Geographer Perspective
Author: Pratap Singh, Anil, Ashok
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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