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With the Legislative Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh in the offing of February/March 2022, the stage is all set for the crucial battle of bullets. With the disseminating developmental works to the people, the incumbent Bhartiya Janata Party is making all out efforts to retain the power. On the other hand, Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress and other parties are burning mid night oil for polarisation of votes. No stone is unturned to turn the tide in their favour.

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Does the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on repealing all three farm reform laws with a profound apology to the farmers would pose a setback to the Central Government’s subsequent reforms? In India, where a large number of farmers are either small or marginal, what the nation needed was breathing time to allow farms to consolidate and provide the rest of the economy adequate time to generate employment to absorb excess farm labour.  Interestingly, the Prime Minister chose the birthday of Guru Gobind Singh to make his announcement. Does that look like a tactical retreat or a meek surrender and could there be any snowballing effect on his decision, politically, as well as economically?

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The Congress had not even healed after losing grounds in Punjab, in yet another blow, the Congress has now suffered a massive setback in Northeast state Meghalaya where 12 out of its 17 Congress MLAs, including the state’s former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma joined Mamata Banerjee’s TMC (Trinamool Congress). 

Back in 2018 elections, Conrad Sangma from National People’s Party (NPP) formed the Government with the support of UDP & BJP. The Congress had emerged as the single largest party in the 2018 assembly election with 21 seats. The NPP was the second closest securing 19 seats. However, it was the NPP that formed the government, because smaller parties like the BJP, which could win only two seats in the Meghalaya Assembly, followed by the United Democratic Party, which won six, and the People’s Democratic Front, with four seats, all supported the candidature of Conrad Sangma as Chief Minister. Hence, in 2018 six political parties formed Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) coalition and formed the new government with NPP stand tall with 41 seats whereas Congress was the strongest opposition with 17 seats.