Modi is a majoritarian PM who has to work without a majority, RJD leader Manoj K. Jha
The essential story of this election is that brand Modi with its “teflon coating” of invincibility has been shattered, says Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Manoj K. Jha. He says the NDA today is a coalition of contradictions. Excerpts:
The INDIA bloc and, especially, the RJD fell short of the target it had set for itself in Bihar. What went wrong?
We were expecting at least 20 seats. Our seat tally is below our expectations and we will introspect. If you look closely there are 8 to 10 seats that we lost by a margin of a few thousand votes. We need to compare the margin of our loss in 2024 with the 2019 data and therein lies the story. There may have been regional variations, there are certain regions where we have done extremely well and certain others where our per...