Don't want to start a sectarian war here, but devout SVs on twitter have taken recourse to academia to justify how adi shankara was purely vaishnava and most current beliefs of his followers are ahistorical.
Whether or not delimitation ensues, BJP should fuck the shvt out of Tonti for winning Faizabad LS and parading Awadhesh Prasad as a triumph over Hindutva.
Awadhesh won Faizabad along the slogans like ना मथुरा ना काशी, अयोध्या मे पासी. Ideally he should have been made to resign and apologise for brandishing himself as Awadh-naresh.
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CONG changed the whole electoral landscape in 2009, nearly all vidhan sabha and Lok sabha boundaries changed under the farce of equalising the size of constituencies and not a single BJP leader could see through the facade.
Legacy seats of all sorts of stongmen were preserved+ favourable new LS boundaries carefully carved
Changes made are here in the case of TN. LS happened in 2004 and VS elections in 2006. In both the cases, the party changed. all the 5 associate members from LS, belonged to the ruling UPA. After 2006, in the VS members, except Agri Krishnamurthy, the others belonged to the DMK+allies front that ruled TN.
From this point onwards BJP has a base in Gujarat. Constant base. Lowest it went to was 14/26 in 2004.
Why shouldn't BJP reward Gujarat?
Even in 1984, it got 1 out of its two seats from Gujarat.
1989 : JANATA DAL RISES
VP Singh's Janata Dal did well in the north, even as the other parties in the National Front alliance floundered. He became PM with outside support of the Left and BJP, which also saw a dramatic rise in seats.
He was later replaced by Chandrashekhar. /7
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