Month: October 2019

Making sense of the Maharashtra mandate

The NCP has made a strong comeback in Pune district while denting the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Nashik district. The message from these verdicts is loud and clear – Prime Minister Modi’s speeches are no longer a game-changer. Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted 9 election rallies in Maharashtra. All the locations were carefully chosen with …

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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2019- Opinion Poll

The 15th batch of MPG programme has conducted a state-wide opinion poll in Maharashtra in the last week of August. This study was carried out across 30 Vidhan Sabha constituencies by means of field visits by a team of two/three students per constituency. Election study workshop of two-days was conducted to prepare students for the …

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Maharashtra Assembly Election 2019 Opinion Poll-2 October 2019

The School of Government has conducted a state-wide opinion poll in Maharashtra from 9th October to 15th October 2019. This study was carried out across 50 Vidhan Sabha constituencies by means of field visits by a team of two/three students per constituency. The minimum sample size was 100 per constituency. The questionnaire had 17 questions …

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Shades of colour in a black and white election

The most recent survey supervised by this author for Tractus predicted a surge in the prospective vote-share of the Congress-NCP alliance but a comfortable victory for the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in the state. The political status quo during the assembly election in Maharashtra is going almost unchallenged because no one is expecting much and no …

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Essentials and Compulsions of Aditya Thackeray

The Shiv Sena needs legislative leaders but can’t trust anyone anymore. Hence, Aditya Thackeray is contesting from the Worli constituency in Mumbai. Aditya Thackeray’s decision to contest an assembly election is a significant departure from Shiv Sena’s rogue politics. Aditya’s grandfather and founder of Shiv Sena, Balasaheb Thackeray, always considered himself above the system. Balasaheb …

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