How BJP won UP Elections 2022? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kHvkv_nbx4 Mar 14, 2022 (hindi)
The economy, law and order, administration and problems of UP have no synergy with the results of the recent assembly elections. There is debate among scholars as to how this happened? This is what Sheetal P Singh is asking retired IAS Raju Sharma. Raju Sharma says it is ironical that the the result is seen by secularists as a victory for the communal polarisation whereas the Hindtuva-vadis talk of it as a victory of development or good governance.
Upper caste Hindu consolidation trumped all the apparently non popular negative issues like stray cattle, corona, stringent use of admin/police machinery. The consolidation has taken place with a narrative of insecurity over the other community being the mafia which the regime is fighting against.
After this a certain amount of welfare, served as a tipping point.