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Election results 2024: With no majority on its own, BJP will have to strike a consensus

A National Democratic Alliance where the Bharatiya Janata Party is not dominant, backed by a full majority, is tantamount to turning the clock back 26 years to May 15, 1998, when former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee created the first avatar of the NDA and formed a government that held power between 1998 and 2004. The 2024 Lok Sabha election result, which has left the BJP with less than a majority of seats, will likely lead to changes — not just in terms of how the coalition, if it fructifies in governmental terms, is run, but also in the internal dynamics of the BJP. In a new NDA, the BJP’s heldover agenda of the UCC and simultaneous polls to the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies may also be put on the backburner. After the Assembly polls in five States immediately preceding the Lok Sabha election, the party’s senior Rajasthan leader Vasundhara Raje and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan were replaced in those States.

The Hindu

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