The recent assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra show that the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has reclaimed its space in urban constituencies and is now rapidly adding rurban areas-seats having rural administrative structure but mimic urban living-to its sphere of influence.
In Haryana, the BJP increased its rural and urban (rurban) seats in the assembly from three in 2009 to 27 in 2014. In Maharashtra, over the same period, the party more than doubled its presence in urban...
