What This Means

'BJP is yet to pull votes from the Left,' says Venu Gopal Narayanan as he shares three major takeaways from the 2024 Lok Sabha election results for Kerala in this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav. (Recorded on 5-6-2024)

- What worked for Congress in Kerala?

- What did not work for the Left in Kerala?

- What explains BJP's victory in Thrissur and vote share increase in Alappuzha and other seats

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'If I were to put a number, I would say that the BJP is likely to inch very close to the halfway majority mark in the Odisha Vidhan Sabha elections. We will see after June 4, if the BJP gets an absolute majority, that's a different game altogether, they form the govt.

But even if they don't, if they are near the majority mark, I think there will be a lot of interesting political developments happening. And Odisha, in that case, is likely to have a BJP-led coalition government, says Jaideep Mazumdar in this episode of What This Means with Diksha.

Why does he say so? How many seats is the BJP likely to gain in LS from Odisha? What are the major issues facing the people of Odisha? We discuss all this and more. (Recorded on 30-5-2024)

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Rahul Gandhi has pushed the Congress party to the extreme left, and has pried open the centre-left space in Indian politics, says Banuchandar Nagarajan, in today's episode of What This Means with Diksha.

We discuss with him:

1. What exactly is left of centre wrt Indian politics?

2. The drawbacks of left ecosystem

3. Why should Modi not be seen at the left of centre space?

4. Can any regional party take over this space in national politics in the next 10 years?

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The BJP won all 10 LS seats in 2019. However, this might not be the case this time. 'Rohtak and Sirsa are the most difficult seats for the BJP to win this time,' says Arihant Pawariya in this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav. We discuss:

- The most challenging seats for the BJP in Haryana

- Factors going against the BJP

- How people of Haryana vote

- Major issues of the people

- Post Lok Sabha results, issues that need to be addressed before the state assembly elections later this year (recorded on 24-5-24)

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All eyes are on the two hot seat of Uttar Pradesh - Amethi & Raebareli, where the BJP and Congress (of the INDI Alliance) aggressively did their campaigning.

Our guest, Sumati Mehrishi, was on the ground in both of these Lok Sabha constituencies. She shares her insights from the ground, the major issues of the people, and the voters perceptions and views about the candidates (Dinesh Pratap Singh vs Rahul Gandhi, Smriti Irani vs KL Sharma), and the narratives driving the voters on the ground in this episode of What This Means with Diksha. (Recorded on 21-05-2024) 

You can read Sumati's report here: https://shorturl.at/Rb7n7

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Uddhav Thackeray, in his speech on May 16, referred to the saffron-coloured RSS flag as 'dusting cloth.' Later, after facing criticism from several sections, he backtracked on his statement. To give the impression that he was against the BJP and not the RSS, he said that the BJP has become heady with power to such an extent that it might ban the RSS soon. 

Uddhav Thackrey's Shiv Sena has been facing a lot of criticism for a while now for taking a different stand on various issues than his father, Balasaheb's Shiv Sena. In this episode of What This Means with Diksha, we discuss with Swarajya's Krishna Dange the 3 major differences between the Uddhav and Balasaheb's Senas. (Recorded on 21-05-2024)

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What happened on 13th May is still not clear. It started with Swati Maliwal alleging assault by Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's PA, Bibhav Kumar, at the CM residence to Sanjay Singh accepting the allegation, saying, 'Bibhav Kumar ne Swati Maliwal ke saath badtameezi ki, abhadrata ki,' to now AAP and its leaders denying it, saying she wanted to entrap Kejriwal in a false case, while Maliwal says the truth will come out when CCTV footage is accessed.

We discuss the Maliwal case and the mess going on in the Aam Aadmi Party in this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav. (recorded on 17-05-2024)

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At an event in Bihar's Patliputra, RJD leader and former minister in the state government, Tej Pratap Yadav, was seen pushing his own party worker. And even as Yadav entered into an altercation with the person, his sister and RJD candidate for Patliputra seat, Misa Bharti, kept waving to the crowd, and some person kept singing loudly, creating a thoroughly dystopian scene. Does this reflect the reality of Bihar today?

Our guest, Adarsh Pandit, explains this and the present situation of the RJD, JDU, and BJP in Bihar in this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav. (recorded on 14-05-2024)

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Haryana goes to poll on 25th May in the 5th phase of the Lok Sabha elections. In this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav, we discuss with our guest Rohit Pathania the following: (recorded on 8-05-2024)

- What unfolds now in Haryana after BJP loses it's majority mark in the state assembly

- Where BJP, Congress and JJP stand as of now

- The most challenging seats for the BJP in Haryana

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Our guest, Shriniwas Gour, is confident that Rahul Gandhi has very little chance of winning Uttar Pradesh's Raebareli Lok Sabha constituency, which has been a Congress stronghold for decades. It is very likely that he would lose to BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh, he says.

In this episode of What This Means with Diksha Yadav, we discuss: (recorded on 6-05-2024)

- Why Rahul is likely to lose the Raebareli seat

- Why Priyanka or Sonia Gandhi were not chosen to fight from the RBL seat

- The 8–10 challenging seats for the BJP in UP

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