00:00On similar lines, Yogesh, main phir se yehi baat rakhna chahunga inse bhi ki Bhanu Chandra Nagarajan se ki
00:08when it comes to issues, we have seen time and again different states, different story obviously
00:14when Delhi votes en masse for Arvind Kejriwal, there are you know several voices which would say
00:21ki dekhe Delhi walon ko toh matlab hi nahi hai, Delhi walon ko toh free ki cheezon ki aadat pad gayi hai.
00:26When similarly in Uttar Pradesh, BJP comes back to power romping on and riding high on the same freebies that is being given
00:35usko masterstroke hum log keh dete hain. Irrespective of the political parties, logon ko kya chahiye?
00:40Janata, what do they need? Is it the freebies that guide the elections? Is it the roads?
00:46Or is it some caste calculus that is at play?
00:49I think formula for electoral success, that will be great, right?
00:56But what we learn from Haryana is that politics is so confounding.
01:01We actually especially analysts and political watchers, it's as if the politics is teasing us to come up with something
01:08and then giving up at the last minute. So I don't think there is a particular formula for that.
01:12Since I already spoke about Maharashtra, I'll speak about Jharkhand.
01:15I travelled in Jharkhand for more than two weeks, the last couple of weeks.
01:18It is a very different election from Maharashtra.
01:22There is a clear anti-governancy against the ruling party, ruling coalition.
01:27Like what the Congress spokesperson, I guess, he was saying about the athiyachar against the tribal chief minister.
01:37That issue is over. It's not there anymore.
01:40I think the performance of the state government has been under question.
01:44The corruption issues against Hemant Sohra is what people are talking about.
01:49And there is also a polarization happening between the OBCs and the tribals there, with the OBCs favouring the BJP.
01:57And with the latest salvo from the chief minister is the Maiya Samman Nidhi program, which is the cash transfer government.
02:05The BJP is countering it with the Bogo Nidhi program, which I think offers almost a similar amount to the women.
02:11And also the infrastructure development, especially in the Santal-Balgana region, if you look at the north-eastern part of Jharkhand,
02:20in fact, the region where the chief minister comes from is a very, very pathetic state and people are complaining about water.
02:27Even the fact that they are less than 100 kilometers away from the Ganga.
02:33In fact, the Ganga flows through Sahilgunj, etc.
02:35The water infrastructure and health and sanitation are absolutely pathetic.
02:40It seems that there are certain parts of our country that are still living in the 1980s and 90s.
02:47Those sort of situations are there.
02:49And also the urban tribals, the tribals that have moved to urban parts of Jharkhand, like Azadipal, Ranchi, Jamshedpur,
02:56these people are actually not voting based on tribal dichotomy.
03:00They are actually looking at how progressive Jharkhand could become and how they can benefit from the economic growth.
03:06So, I think it's a very, very interesting content.
03:09One last point before I give it back to you.
03:11Both in Sardar Baghdana and in the Palanpur region, the Palanpur section of Jharkhand,
03:19the religious polarization from Bangladeshi migrants and the Christian conversion is a very, very big issue.
03:26People are working on the ground on that and we will see the results of that in the elections.
03:31Thank you very much.
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