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Congress wins in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and leads in Madhya Pradesh six months before national vote.

A Congress supporter. After the results, the party tweeted: ‘Democracy has won!’ Photograph: Adnan Abidi/Reuters
▼ The party of Indian prime minister Narendra Modihas suffered heavy election defeats in two states, with another on a knife edge, in a bruising day of results that exposed the party’s vulnerability less than six months before the country goes to the polls.
The main opposition Congress party decisively won state elections in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and has a narrow lead in Madhya Pradesh, where votes were still being counted on Tuesday evening.
The governing Bharatiya Janata party’s (BJP) vote collapsed by 17 percentage points in Rajasthan state and by at least 12 points in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, all part of the Hindi heartland where Indian governments are traditionally made or broken.
Those losses, as well as the revival of a Congress party frequently written off in the past five years, had analysts revising their predictions for next year’s national polls, which Modi had been expected to win in a cakewalk. (▪ ▪ ▪)
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