#BeyondTheHeadlines | The Message from Haryana and Maharashtra

State politics has finally offered opposition parties an opportunity to counter BJP.

Voters seem to be looking for alternatives in both states, where BJP will, in all likelihood, form the government, but is humbled.

The party has suffered from a clear leadership deficit in both Haryana and Maharashtra, as the assembly polls results show. The Wire‘s founding editor Siddharth Varadarajan discusses some of the quick conclusions that can be drawn from the results.

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Author: Siddharth Varadarajan

Siddharth Varadarajan is a Founding Editor of The Wire. He was earlier the Editor of The Hindu and is a recipient of the Shorenstein Journalism Award and the Ramnath Goenka Award for Journalist of the Year. He taught Economics at New York University and Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, besides working at the Times of India.