Atal, Yogesh, and Sunil K. Choudhary

Summary
The 2014 Elections marked a watershed in the democratic politics of India. Nearly after three decades, Indian polity witnessed a shift towards the dominance of ‘one-party dominated coalition governance’ at the center. The overwhelming victory of BJP under Narendra Modi encapsulated as Right Turn shows both an ideological shift and corrective drift in Indian Polity. Written with a politico-sociological perspective, the book underlines the salience and statistical analysis of developments of the 2014 elections and the resultant outcome bringing BJP under Modi at the helm of governance. While challenging the psephologists and election analysts, the elections to the 16th Lok Sabha could be seen as a new turning point having had its semblance in the unprecedented electoral victories of the American President Barack Obama and the British Prime Minister David Cameron. The book unfolds many issues and controversies, developments and challenges of 2014 elections which would help the readers to analyze the undercurrents of Indian polity.