gathbandhan of the Samajwadi Party ( SP ), Bahujan Samaj Party ( BSP ) and Rashtriya Lok Dal came into existence . These parties were heavily enthused by the bypoll results of Kairana , Gorakhpur and Phoolpur , where castes like Jats , Yadavs , Dalits and Muslims played a vital role to defeat the BJP . Parties thought that this time , too , the same formula would work and the BJP would be decimated .
UP comprises more than 25 per cent Dalits , nearly 18 per cent of Muslims and 15 per cent of Yadavas and Jats . Their alliance would have been lethal to finish the BJP but this formula did not work in 2019 . Belying all expectation , the BJP romped home with 60 seats . Many journalists and analysts , who analysed the outcome of the Lok Sabha election , keeping in mind the caste angle , ignored something that clearly worked in this election — the politics of emotion , one which helped Prime Minister Narendra Modi project himself as the do-gooder who was being obstructed by greedy power players . And for all the polarisation , he seems to have cut across the masses in terms of appeal and acceptability as a worthy choice in a national bet .
So while in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections , there was a discernible Modi wave sweeping across the country , in 2019 , there was a complete denial of this wave by most parties and political commentators as well .
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