Peoples Mandate

Contents: Preface. 1. Electoral politics and voting behaviour. 2. Obnoxious relation between the BJD and BJP during the coalition and its effect in 2009 election. 3. People\'s Mandate 2009. Bibliography. Appendices.

"This volume analyses a detailed survey of Odisha Assembly election of 2009 in particular and discusses the main issues, campaigning trends, electoral culture, character of political parties, electoral behavior, political participation, and political development etc. In general. In this volume some important questions are raised and the author has it in mind to answer these questions. How the 14th assembly election of Odisha differs from other previous elections? What are the reason of intra-party quarrels among the political parties and how they adversely affected the poll prospects? What factors accounted for the debacle of national parties like Congress and BJP in this election? What are the factors for the disintegration of the BJD-BJP coalition just before the 2009 assembly election? How BJD: a regional political party in Odisha formed a government on its own for the first time in this political history? In its attempt this volume categorically finds out answers for all it queries in mind centering round the 2009 election in Odisha." (jackets)