In the last Gujarat election, the decisive intervention from PM Modi came only in the final throes of campaigning, to reverse a Congress surge. This time around, the decisive intervention seems to have been made long before the poll bugle was sounded. The freebies debate, started by Modi, and latched on to by Kejriwal, has ended up slicing the opposition right down the middle, and likely cleared the way for a comfortable BJP victory.
Before explaining the point, let’s quickly glance through the electoral picture painted by the latest Lokniti-CSDS survey.
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