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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters celebrate Tripura Chief Minister and party candidate from Bordowali Town Manik Saha’s victory in the state assembly elections, outside party election office, in Agartala.

Intensity of polarisation of support for leaders is evident in Tripura

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BJP supporters celebrate Tripura Chief Minister and party candidate from Bordowali Town Manik Saha’s victory in the state assembly elections, in Agartala on March 2, 2023

Lessons for key parties from Tripura election

Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Methodology of CSDS-Lokniti health survey

Sanjay Kumar, Suhas Palshikar,Sandeep Shastri

Voters wait in a queue at a polling station in Dhanderwadi village of Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla district on November 12, 2022. Photo: Twitter/@deoshimla771 via PTI

Did women voters tip the scales in favour of the Congress in Himachal Pradesh?

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Congress leaders and workers celebrate the party’s lead in Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections in Dehradun on December 8, 2022.

What mattered in a tight race in Himachal Pradesh?

Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, BJP president J.P. Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are felicitated at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi after the BJP’s historic win in Gujarat.

What contributed to the BJP’s massive victory in Gujarat?

Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to his supporters as he arrives to vote during the second and last phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections in Ahmedabad.

Is Modi’s charisma still driving voters?

Sandeep Shastri,Bhanu Parmar

Election campaign banners being printed in Ahmedabad.

How are political parties placed a month before the Gujarat Assembly elections?

Sandeep Shastri,Sanjay Kumar

File photo of Arvind Kejriwal during an Aam Aadmi Party’s Sammelan.

The leadership sweepstakes: a State election with national leaders as the face of their parties

Sandeep Shastri

Election symbols of the BJP and the Congress are painted on a wall in Ahmedabad.

A month before polls, what is on the Gujarat voter’s mind?

Sanjay Kumar,Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar

More than half the respondents (53%) were satisfied with the performance of the Narendra Modi-led Union government.

Giving a firm push: the ‘central engine’ helped BJP touch the finish line in Goa

Sandeep Shastri, Suhas Palshikar,Sanjay Kumar

Though incumbent Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami himself was defeated in his constituency, PM Modi’s campaign appears to have saved the party. Photo: Twitter/@BJP4UK

Modi’s popularity galvanised a BJP win in Uttarakhand

Vibha Attri,Sandeep Shastri

Farmers shout slogans as they block railway tracks during a demonstration demanding compensations and jobs for the families of those who died during protests against the Central government’s agricultural reforms on the outskirts of Amritsar on December 24, 2021.

Punjab polls | Farmers’ movement, a catalyst for change

Shreyas Sardesai,Sandeep Shastri,Aamir Raza

A hoarding of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal with AAPs Punjab Chief Ministerial candidate Bhagwant Singh Mann, put up by Aam Aadmi Party workers in New Delhi on March 12, 2022.

An angry Punjab voted decisively for change

Sandeep Shastri,Shreyas Sardesai