Watch: Why BJP may have to rethink its delimitation plans
For years, the BJP has worked on the assumption that it had built a durable Hindu voting coalition across much of the Hindi heartland. Not that all Hindus vote for the party, but enough do, across caste groups, to give it a structural edge. But two recent developments raise questions about that logic: Bankipur and Jantar Mantar.
· 8/5/2026, 5:32:12 AM· 2 min read
For years, the BJP has worked on the assumption that it had built a durable Hindu voting coalition across much of the Hindi heartland. Not that all Hindus vote for the party, but enough do, across caste groups, to give it a structural edge. But two recent developments raise questions about that logic: Bankipur and Jantar Mantar.
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