'No Congress surprise to challenge Modi'

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May 10, 2019 11:51

Nine more days and campaigning for the Greatest Show on Democracy will be over.

With polling in just 79 of the 543 seats remaining, most of the election is behind us.

What has been the course of this campaign?

How is this election different from the past and what trends does it reveal for the final result?

Will the BJP hold onto UP and lose Delhi?

Why has the 2019 campaign been very dry?

"This election is being contested on Modi's personality," Rahul Verma, psephologist and co-author of Ideology & Identity -- The Changing Party Systems of India, tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih.

Read the interview here.

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