Episode 184: State Elections 2023 - BJP and Northeast India

Three Northeast states of India –Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya – went to polls in February 2023. In Tripura, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its regional ally, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura, won 33 seats. In Nagaland, the BJP and its ally, the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, secured 37 seats. In Meghalaya, the BJP has formed a coalition government with the ruling National People's Party. In this episode of South Asia Chat, Ms Wini Fred Gurung, Research Analyst at ISAS, interviews Professor Kham Khan Suan Hausing, Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science at the University of Hyderabad, India. They discuss the electoral success of the BJP and the position of opposition parties in these states.