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    India Elections 2019: The Farmers’ Vote for the BJP

    Nathanael Lee and Diego Maiorano

    12 June 2019

    With a significant agrarian community, the famers’ vote was crucial to the 2019 Indian General Elections. However, despite distress in the farming community, the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to increase its mandate, with this divergence in expectations explained through the different perceptions of the state and central governments among the farming community.