{"id":7494,"date":"2026-05-05T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2026-05-05T19:40:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:40:57","slug":"anti-incumbency-warning-shashi-tharoor-explains-why-bengals-verdict-is-a-lesson-for-the-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=7494","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Incumbency Warning: Shashi Tharoor Explains Why Bengal\u2019s Verdict Is A Lesson For The BJP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p>Is India entering a &#8220;Hegemonic BJP Era&#8221;? In a sharp debate with India Today\u2019s Rajdeep Sardesai, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor pushes back against the narrative of BJP\u2019s invincibility. While acknowledging the BJP\u2019s Bengal sweep, Tharoor argues that the same &#8220;15-year itch&#8221; that toppled the TMC will soon haunt the BJP at the Center. Highlighting the UDF\u2019s massive Kerala turnaround, Tharoor warns that Indian voters have zero tolerance for &#8220;arrogant incumbents.&#8221; Watch this high-octane analysis on why the BJP should stop feeling secure despite their recent state victories.<\/p> <\/div> <p>Congress party, BJP dominance, Indian politics, state elections, Kerala election results#AntiIncumbency #Warning #Shashi #Tharoor #Explains #Bengals #Verdict #Lesson #BJP1777981257<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is India entering a &#8220;Hegemonic BJP Era&#8221;? In a sharp debate with India Today\u2019s Rajdeep Sardesai, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor pushes back against the narrative of BJP\u2019s invincibility. While acknowledging the BJP\u2019s Bengal sweep, Tharoor argues that the same &#8220;15-year itch&#8221; that toppled the TMC will soon haunt the BJP at the Center. Highlighting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[27902,27903,11803,27899,27898,211,21365,27901,27904,7944,27900,7945,2492,3741],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content-marketing","tag-antiincumbency","tag-bengals","tag-bjp","tag-bjp-dominance","tag-congress-party","tag-explains","tag-indian-politics","tag-kerala-election-results","tag-lesson","tag-shashi","tag-state-elections","tag-tharoor","tag-verdict","tag-warning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}