The Wire Wrap | Decoding Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Election Results

The Bharatiya Janata Party has defied 10 years of anti-incumbency and exit poll predictions to form the third consecutive government in Haryana as the Congress reels from losing another election in the Hindi heartland that was seen as a straight contest between the two national parties.

In Jammu and Kashmir, elections were held for the first time in a decade, and after the reading down of Article 370 and have seen the NC-Congress alliance winning the majority. But questions about the promise of statehood and the extent of powers that the new government will have remain to be answered.

The Wire’s Sravasti Dasgupta is joined by M.K. Venu, founding editor at The Wire and senior journalist Maya Mirchandani.