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100			_aBajukumar, V. _918394
245			_aGeneral election 2019 and Northwest India: stunning victory for the BJP and dwindling congress and regional parties
260			_aSocial Science in Perspective
300			_a11(3 & 4), Jul-Dec, 2019: p. 360-368
520			_aThe political pragmatism of the BJP brought huge electoral dividends to the part in the northeast region. The leadership vacuum was promptly attended to by encouraging defection in other parties and poaching their leaders. It helped the party mobilize dives communities to the party fold and strengthen its base electorally. Apart from all these, the party could nightly the developmental initiatives undertaken by the NDA government during the past five years in the region. With a development-centered positioning. It succeeded in arresting the growing protest against the CAB and resentment towards the BJP. Thus religiously and culturally different political terrains antithetical to BJP’s Hindu nationalist ideology become another party stronghold. - Reproduced
773			_aSocial Science in Perspective
906			_aELECTIONS - INDIA
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