How the 3 state elections might affect the 2019 national election

The losses in Chhattisgarh, MP and Rajasthan could lead to considerable problems for the BJP

What do last week’s election results in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan tell us about the possible outcome in the same states in next year’s national elections? And how much confidence can the Congress Party draw from these pointers? 

There are two ways of analysing how the recent state elections could affect next year’s national election. The first is to project the state outcome in terms of assembly constituencies on to the Lok Sabha constituency picture. NDTV has done this. It concludes that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will lose 10 seats in Chhattisgarh, 17 in Rajasthan and 17 in