Mizoram still counts its votes even as at least three of the four other states which recently held assembly elections have thrown out their governments. And it’s not just anti-incumbency that has defined the change, as the mandate in Madhya Pradesh has spelt out.
While poll pundits look at the various factors behind the BJP’s thumping victory and the Congress’s defeat in the Hindi heartland, some newspaper editorials observed that it might be because the BJP is better equipped both as a challenger and the incumbent.
