India's Cockroach Protests Shook the Government. Can Their Impact Last?
Simon Whistler · August 15, 2026 · 17 min video · China & Indo-Pacific
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Surprising unprecedented shocking. These were some of the words used to describe the result of the recently concluded by-elections in India's Bancapur constituency in Patma, the capital of Baha State. And it's easy to see why.
Bancapur constituency has been a stronghold of India's ruling Bhatia Janata Party, or BJP, since 1995.
The former member of the State Legislative Assembly, Nithan 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.
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