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'Hindu counter-polarisation for BJP rooted in...': Yashwant Deshmukh on WB polls
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Published on April 14, 2021 - Duration: 05:01s
'Hindu counter-polarisation for BJP rooted in...': Yashwant Deshmukh on WB polls
Halfway through the West Bengal elections, a controversy over Trinamool Congress' poll strategist Prashant Kishor's leaked chat caused a storm.
One of the statements made by Kishor, as released by BJP, involved a declaration that 'if there's a vote, it's for Hindus, for polarisation, and for Modi'.
Pollster Yashwant Deshmukh decodes this statement, and how political parties in India have used appeasement and polarisation politics to win votes.
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Indian religion
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