Lotus blooms in India's farmlands: CSDS survey shows 30% farmers to vote for BJP

It's a mid-summer harvest the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) can look forward to with relish. Almost a third of the nation's farmers intend to vote for the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, says an in-depth survey conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS). Only 17 per cent of the 11,000 surveyed people from the farming community-arguably the largest ever such exercise- say they will vote for the Congress party.

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