This is a three-part series by Rahul Verma on the electoral prospect of Left parties in India. Mr. Verma is with Lokniti-CSDS and Travers Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.
With support among its traditional base and younger cohorts waning, the Left’s decline suggests a very bleak prospect for its future as an electoral force with a pan-India base. >Read more |
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Why have the Left parties failed to emerge as an electoral force in India? Many have argued that these parties underestimated the mobilising potential of social identities such as caste in India’s electoral arena. >Read more |
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