The election results defied the logic of anti-incumbency. And we were quick to relegate the term to history, as representative of a politics of the past. We inaugurated the politics of development, of governance, of accountability.
The history of anti-incumbency tells a cautionary tale. Psephology must provide an empirical basis for our understanding of political processes but it cannot masquerade as theory. Anti-incumbency is no Rag Darbari, and till we have a modern fable we shall have to cherish Vaidyaji and Langad.
The writer is an Ahmedabad-based academic
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