Q-opeds: the quint’s analysis of assembly elections 2016 and more

THE QUINT brings you a collection of articles and analytical pieces from its Opinion page from the week gone by. This week, we dug deep into state assembly election results, looking at

Mamata Banerjee and Jayalaithaa’s resounding comeback, and also BJP’s first victory into Assam. CHANDY VS CHENNITHALA COST CONGRESS KERALA SAYS SHASHI THAROOR Lok Sabha MP and Congress

leader Shashi Tharoor writes why the party lost in Kerala despite the development work done by Oommen Chandy’s government. Factionalism is what explains the defeat of the Grand Old Party in

Kerala, writes Tharoor. The Congress leader also had a word of advice for BJP to not harp on the plank of ‘Hindu consolidation’ for making inroads in the state. You can read the complete

article here. WHAT EXPLAINS MAMATA VICTORY Senior journalist Arati R Jerath wrote how a personality-driven campaign worked in favour of Mamata in Bengal, with people rewarding Didi for the

development work done in state. What is appalling is the dire state of the Left in its home turf where people still harbour pathological hatred for the party, wrote Jerath. M-FACTOR IN ASSAM

One of the most popular reads on THE QUINT this week was an analytical piece by senior journalist Anuraag Baruah who wrote on how the indigenous Muslims threw their weight behind BJP in

Assam. JAYA DEFIES ALL ODDS Former CBI Director and a Chennaite himself, RK Raghavan wrote on the madness that followed the resounding victory of Amma in Tamil Nadu. THE QUINT INTERVIEWS

REPUBLICAN DUNCAN HUNTER And if you have had enough of _desi rajneeti_ then add a _tadka_ of international politics as well, as Anirudh Bhattacharyya caught up with Republican Duncan Hunter

and asks him about Trump’s vision for South Asia. Published: 22 May 2016, 7:13 AM IST