Indian politics faced many twists and turns in 2024
Reportedly the year 2024 in indian politics was a rollercoaster ride for leaders and their parties. The big poll season began with chatter around the ruling bharatiya janata party (BJP)’s “abki baar 400 paar" slogan, following its landslide victories in Madhya Pradesh, rajasthan and chhattisgarh assembly polls last winter. bjp supporters were also infused with new energy after the opening of the grand ram temple in ayodhya in january this year, a watershed that brought a movement spanning over a century to an end.Meanwhile it was the opposition that was buoyed after the 2024 election results. The bjp scripted history by returning to power for a third straight term, but its tally rested at 240 seats 32 short of the majority mark of 272 comfortably crossing the magic figure back to back in 2014 and 2019. It needed the help of allies to form government at the Centre. Later, a section of analysts would stress how significant the BJP’s victory was in a year when incumbent governments collapsed across the world from the US to the UK.Moreover even then, the BJP’s lok sabha showing was way off what most pollsters had predicted, bringing smiles to a united opposition bloc. The congress doubled its 2019 tally, ended up with 99 seats and proclaimed “moral victory", an assertion called out by its critics who asked what it was celebrating. Nonetheless, those celebrations were ephemeral. The bjp managed to change the narrative, scoring stunning wins in assembly elections in maharashtra and Haryana, the two states that dented its numbers in the Lok Sabha.