Spent an interesting evening on 27th October, 2017, at the Press Club of Hyderabad where Prashant Jha a young journalist from Hindustan Times discussed his latest book, How the BJP Wins. This is an interesting analysis of how BJP won 282 seats contesting 428 seats of the total of 543 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Some of the issues that came up for discussion included the making of the BJP' electoral hegemony, the building of the cult of Modi, the organizational building, the caste coalitions and the role of NRI's. Jha also focused on Amit Shah's school of election management. I am now looking forward to finishing this book in two sittings for it looks very engrossing.
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