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The outcome of the recent state elections defies any serious academic categorisation, rather, it unfolds certain exceptionalisms undergirded by distrust and cynicism against India’s electoral democracy. It marks, on the one hand, the seizure of West Bengal’s political terrain by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been hitherto occupied by the Left-liberal combo since Independence, and on the other hand, the growing uneasiness and dissensions about procedural-electoral democracy, particularly on the issue of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and the consequent disenfranchisement of a large number of non-BJP voters. |
