Frontline Magazine’s Deep Dive: 2024 Lok Sabha Election Coverage - Frontline

Samajwadi Party MP Iqra Hasan at the Parliament House complex during the first session of the 18th Lok Sabha in New Delhi, June 25, 2024.

Iqra Hasan: Balancing tradition and progress

The Samajwadi Party politician from Uttar Pradesh’s Kairana overcame communal tensions and patriarchal norms to become one of India’s youngest MPs.

Editor’s Note: What the 2024 election results mean for India

A fundamental reset in the BJP’s functioning is unlikely. One will see more hypocritical posturing by Modi while his stormtroopers do the opposite.

How the Lok Sabha election 2024 bust the urban-rural myth

The BJP has lost more ground in rapidly urbanising areas—places witnessing faster rural-to-urban transition—than in areas seeing slower urbanisation.

Shamindra Nath Roy,Ashish Ranjan

Chandrababu Naidu: Walking a tightrope

The technocrat must balance welfare and development in his fourth term as Chief Minister if he wants to keep his rural voters on board.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in New Delhi on June 5. The SP, which won 37 seats in Uttar Pradesh, played a crucial role in halting the BJP juggernaut.

Mandate 2024 — The Lede

Rise of the regionals

The biggest takeaway from the 2024 election is that regional parties, whose future had been written off during the saffron wave, are back with a bang.

The changing face of Dalit politics

New Age leaders are changing the narrative of Dalit politics by focussing on pragmatic issues rather than on personality cults and identity politics.

Jitan Ram Manjhi: Breaking barriers

Manjhi, the oldest Minister in the Modi Cabinet and a member of the Mahadalit Musahar community, is aware of the expectations from him.

More stories from Election 2024

Farmer leaders protest the three contentious farm laws at the Delhi-Haryana border on December 14, 2020.

How agrarian anger powered the INDIA bloc juggernaut and gave BJP a major setback

In States that were the site of farmer protests, the BJP suffered major losses, despite its government making many overtures to the peasant community.

T.K. Rajalakshmi

The AIADMK headquarters in Chennai. Marred by internal tussles and a lack of strong leaders, the party, which saw seven candidates lose their deposits, needs to urgently set its house in order.

Dravidian parties at a crossroads

For Dravidian majors, the rise of BJP and NTK serves as a wake-up call: Tamil Nadu politics may no longer remain bipolar as the field grows crowded.

Ilangovan Rajasekaran

Rahul Gandhi campaigning in Patna on May 27. During the election, Rahul holding up a copy of the Constitution became a common sight.

Reinventing Rahul Gandhi

Through this election, a new Rahul emerged: confident, irreverent, assertive, yet accessible.

Modi’s policies have caused an unusual increase of income and wealth concentration in the hands of a few business houses.

Will the setback to Hindutva politics force Modi 3.0 to rethink economic policies?

Even though pressure mounts on the new government to address economic concerns, entrenched political objectives may hinder substantial policy shifts.

C.P. Chandrasekhar

Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying his respects to the Constitution of India as he attends the NDA Parliamentary Party meeting at Samvidhan Sadan, in New Delhi, on June 7.

A vote for constitutional values

Modi government’s actions belittling constitutional values opened up space for opposition parties to revive the struggle to protect the Constitution.

Venkatanarayanan S.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi leads the rituals during the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ ceremony in the sanctum sanctorum of the Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, in Ayodhya on January 22.

The RSS sends a message

Sangh Parivar’s comments on party strategy and leadership qualities hint at a change in power balance within the BJP and in its equation with the RSS.

Abdul Rashid Sheikh, aka Engineer Rashid, at a protest against the attack on Kashmiris after the fidayeen attack on the CRPF in Srinagar, on February 16, 2019.

Engineer Rashid’s defiant victory a turning point for Kashmir’s democratic future

Abdul Rashid Sheikh’s electoral win in Baramulla, while in jail, against National Conference’s Omar Abdullah, indicates a shift in voter sentiment.

Iftikhar Gilani

MVA leaders Sharad Pawar and Uddhav Thackeray at a joint press conference in Mumbai on June 15.

Maharashtra: All sides get ready for a bigger battle

The Lok Sabha election results have shaken the ruling NDA and given the opposition MVA a distinct advantage in the Assembly election later this year.

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal leading a protest march against the controversial farm laws, in New Delhi on September 17, 2021. Despite such protests, the party has lost public support and ceded much of its political space to other parties and radical elements.

Is it the end of the road for the Akali Dal?

Even as Punjab itself is in a deep political churn, the Shiromani Akali Dal is yet to reinvent itself after the breakdown of its alliance with BJP.

Ashutosh Sharma

Dipankar said that if you need to own your politics, you need to fund your politics.

‘People have said: we want our republic’: Dipankar

The CPI(M-L) Liberation leader says that money power can only be fought with human power and a cooperative model can counter the corporate one.

‘The Dystopian Times’ by Appupen

Former Prime Minister and JD(S) chief H.D. Deve Gowda with former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa in Bengaluru on March 29.

How the BJP-JD(S) combine in Karnataka benefited from dominant caste consolidation

The catalyst behind the coalition’s synergy was a tacit understanding between the elites of the Lingayats and the Vokkaligas.

Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

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