Coalition a-dharma: Why losing Karnataka is a win for Modi

The CNN-IBN Karnataka pre-poll survey, which predicts the Congress will win 117-129 seats, offers a number of lessons for the BJP. The most predictable is the importance of governance. As Lokniti‘s Sandeep Shastri observed on India at 9, the lethal combination of “corruption, infighting and non-performance” has spelt certain doom for the BJP party. The voters may forgive any one failing — including corruption — but not an administration that falls prey to all three.

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