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A piece on ongoing parliamentary elections in India by Deepankar Basu, economics and Debarshi Das, states that past voting trends points that though the Mahagathbandhan will not decrease the BJP’s vote share, its seat tally will fall dramatically.

A piece on ongoing parliamentary elections in India by Deepankar Basu, economics and Debarshi Das, states that past voting trends points that though the Mahagathbandhan will not decrease the BJP’s vote share, its seat tally will fall dramatically. This article attempts to predict the BJP’s performance in Uttar Pradesh in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections using past voting trends – both from the assembly election in 2017 and the previous Lok Sabha elections. (Wire, 4/28/19)