Here’s how India’s political map changes after NDA’s tremendous victory

Here’s how India’s political map changes after NDA’s tremendous victory

BJP lawmakers joined delegations that staked claims to form governments in Nagaland and Meghalaya, the two other northeastern states that went to polls recently. So now, members of the National Democratic Alliance (the coalition of parties headed by the BJP) and parties that support it will soon govern 21 of India’s 29 states.

As you can see in the map, only Tamil Nadu (AIADMK), Kerala (LDF), Karnataka (Congress), Mizoram (Congress), Punjab (Congress), Odisha (BJD), West Bengal (Trinamool Congress), and Telangana (TRS) are ruled by parties outside the alliance.

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India’s north-east is now awash in saffron – the only exception being Mizoram. That could change later this year, when Aizawl gets a new assembly ahead of next year’s general election.

Telangana chief minister and TRS leader K Chandrashekhar Rao has expressed the need for a Third Front in India – an alternative to the BJP and the Congress. He has received support from his West Bengal counterpart, Mamata Banerjee, among others.

The Nagaland Governor has given 48 hours to TR Zeliang, who has refused to resign, to prove his majority on the floor of the house.