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“Advantage BJP as Bihar gets ready,” said the Indian Express front-page lead headline on Wednesday morning. On the web, the story was updated at 3 pm. The headline was changed to, “Surge for BJP-led NDA alliance in Bihar’s urban areas.”
The two headlines have very different implications. The result of the Lokniti-CSDS survey is that the BJP-led NDA has a 4% lead in the Bihar Assembly elections, as of September last week. The results have been published by the Indian Express under those headlines.
The first headline – Advantage BJP – emphasises this 4% lead. However, the new headline emphasises that this 4% lead is coming mainly from urban areas. Only 11.3% of Bihar’s population lives in urban areas.
In other words, Sanjay Kumar and Suhas Palshikar seem to have drawn the wrong conclusion from their own survey data. If anything, the CSDS-Lokniti survey shows that the Nitish-Lalu Grand Alliance is ahead. more
“Advantage BJP as Bihar gets ready,” said the Indian Express front-page lead headline on Wednesday morning. On the web, the story was updated at 3 pm. The headline was changed to, “Surge for BJP-led NDA alliance in Bihar’s urban areas.”
The two headlines have very different implications. The result of the Lokniti-CSDS survey is that the BJP-led NDA has a 4% lead in the Bihar Assembly elections, as of September last week. The results have been published by the Indian Express under those headlines.
The first headline – Advantage BJP – emphasises this 4% lead. However, the new headline emphasises that this 4% lead is coming mainly from urban areas. Only 11.3% of Bihar’s population lives in urban areas.
In other words, Sanjay Kumar and Suhas Palshikar seem to have drawn the wrong conclusion from their own survey data. If anything, the CSDS-Lokniti survey shows that the Nitish-Lalu Grand Alliance is ahead. more
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