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Lok Sabha Results: Farmers Still a Political Force

Interview with P. Sainath | 11 Jun 2024
Interviewed by Prabir Purkayastha
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Lok Sabha Results 2024: Apathy Towards People's Issues Cost BJP Clear Majority?

The outcome of 2024 Lok Sabha elections may not have given clear majority to any political party. But it did give clear indications that Indian politics and democracy shall be centred around people's issues. During the campaign attempts were made by the ruling party to steer the narrative towards non-issues like mangalsutra, religion-based reservation etc. However, the people, who have been bearing the brunt of uncontrolled price rise and unemployment, economic and agricultural distress, seemed to have voted on issues that affect their lives.

What do these results tell about the character of Indian politics? Have the Indian working class and peasantry, while struggling to find its unity amid the many religious and caste-based internal conflicts, still sided with the democratic values envisioned in the constitution and tried to reign in the autocratic rule?

Watch this exclusive conversation between NewsClick's editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha and senior journalist P. Sainath as they discuss the post results scenario of Indian politics.