India's Cockroach Protests Shook the Government. Can Their Impact Last?

Surprising unprecedented shocking these were some of the words used to describe the result of the recently concluded by-elections in india's bank book constituency in padma the capital of bahar state and it's easy to see why bankapur constituency has been a stronghold of india's ruling bhathia janata party or bjp since 1995. the former member of the state

Legislative assembly nitan nabin the bjp's national president replaced his father as mla following a by-election in 2006 and had won re-election five times before resigning earlier this year after being elected to parliament's upper house which triggered the by-elections given their historical dominance most observers expected the bjp to cruise to an easy

Victory but given that we chose to open this video with this vote you can probably guess what next instead prashant kishore one of india's most respected election strategists who helped engineer prime minister narendra modi's breakthrough general election victory in 2014 before falling out with the bjp won the seat under his own jan suraj party what made the