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This is exactly what happened in Kairana where the entire anti-BJP Opposition backed the Rashtriya Lok Dal candidate, giving them a strong arithmetical advantage that enabled them to play the вЂ gannaвЂ™ card with confidence. Local issues do matter at election time, especially when they play out through the prism of strategic alliances on the ground.

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So, are we seeing the revival of a fresh political narrative ahead of the 2019 general elections where local concerns trump the вЂnationalвЂ™ issues that play out in TV studios? Well, yes and no. This time, the more prosaic issue of ganna - as exemplified by farmers demanding their sugarcane dues - defeated the divisive politics of Jinnah. And the BJPвЂ™s UP Hindutva mascot, chief minister Yogi Adityanath, was even more omnipresent, even raking up the communally-charged issue of removing a Jinnah portrait in the Aligarh Muslim University.ДЄs it turned out, May 2018 was not quite May 2014: then, against a backdrop of the Muzaffarnagar riots, the BJP succeeded in achieving an unprecedented communal polarisation and swept western UP. Nor can the BJP claim that Narendra Modi did not campaign in the by-elections: a day before the polling in Kairana, the prime minister was in the neighbouring Baghpat district, flagging off a new expressway and promising вЂ achche dinвЂ™ to the region. That the election setbacks have come in the north and west is also significant: it was, after all, a вЂnorth-westвЂ™ India tidal wave that propelled the BJP to a famous win in 2014.

This isnвЂ™t just about a more united Opposition challenge: truth is, from Kairana in western Uttar Pradesh to Bhandara-Gondia in Maharashtra, the BJPвЂ™s vote share is showing signs of decline, a first indication of creeping anti-incumbency. Which is why, while the OppositionвЂ™s celebrations after besting the BJP in another round of by-elections may be premature, IndiaвЂ™s principal party canвЂ™t any longer afford to take victory in the 2019 general elections for granted. A by-election is a bit like a school monthly test: the marks donвЂ™t count for anything during the final exam.