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The Hindu Vocab On India’s General Election

The BJP’s southern push was evident in run-up to first phase

Around 62.3% (preliminary) of 16.63 crore voters turned up at polling booths across 21 States and Union Territories on Friday in the first phase of the election to form the 18th Lok Sabha. Across 102 Lok Sabha seats, 1,625 candidates were in the fray. People of Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim also voted to elect new Assemblies. Reports of isolated (happening or existing only once, separate) incidents of violence and disruption (the action of preventing something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected) apart, polling was largely peaceful. In one of the two seats in strife-torn Manipur, at least a 72.32% turnout was recorded amid reports of violence. All 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu went to the polls in the first phase of the general election, preceded by the most ambitious (having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich) push by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to make a political entry. The BJP hopes to find a foothold in Tamil Nadu, where the Dravidian parties are faced with challenges of various types. The charismatic leaders of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, J. Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi, respectively, passed away in the last decade and the BJP has found a strident (expressing or expressed in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people) leader in K. Annamalai, a former police officer. The DMK continues to maintain its hold over the levers of state and social power in Tamil Nadu, but the BJP is invested in redefining (to change the meaning of something or to make people think about something in a new or different way) the political character of the State.

The BJP’s State focus has both ideological and tactical strands. The party rightly sees that the strongest resistance (the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something) to its politics, outside of the spheres of influence (the power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to do this) of the Left parties, is from Tamil Nadu, where the regional parties have the social, material and intellectual (relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas) resources that make them formidable. Tactically, the BJP needs to pick some seats in newer regions considering that it has peaked in its strongholds in the Hindi belt, and can grow no further. Reports from parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh that went to the polls on Friday suggest the ruling BJP faced headwinds. In the event of losses here, the party hopes that any gains in peninsular (consisting of or relating to a peninsula (= a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake)India could at least partially compensate for these. Meanwhile, regional parties across the country are trying to hold their ground in the face of the BJP’s stridency (the fact of being expressed, or of expressing things, in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people) but without offering any new imagination as the campaign has shown so far. The BJP works on the plausible (seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed) premise that popular resistance to nationally dominant (more important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the same type) parties may have weakened over time in Tamil Nadu. The extent of the BJP’s advances will be known only when the votes are counted, but campaigning (a planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim) in the first phase has given out enough signals about the seriousness of its southern project.

The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary Wordlist 20th April 2024

Start your journey to know new words regularly. The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary 20th April 2024 gives you a glimpse of the contextual meaning of difficult words.

• Isolated: Happening or existing only once, separate.
• Disruption: The action of preventing something, especially a system, process, or event, from continuing as usual or as expected.
• Ambitious: Having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich.
• Strident: Expressing or expressed in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people.
• Redefining: To change the meaning of something or to make people think about something in a new or different way.
• Resistance: The act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something.
• Influence: The power to have an effect on people or things, or a person or thing that is able to do this.
• Intellectual: Relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially complicated ideas.
• Peninsular: Consisting of or relating to a peninsula (= a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake).
• Stridency: The fact of being expressed, or of expressing things, in forceful language that does not try to avoid upsetting other people.
• Plausible: Seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed.
• Dominant: More important, strong, or noticeable than anything else of the same type.
• Campaigning: A planned group of especially political, business, or military activities that are intended to achieve a particular aim.

The Hindu Vocab Master 20th April with Synonyms & Antonyms

Read the Hindu Vocab Master Words on 20th April 2024 to know synonyms and antonyms of difficult words.

Difficult Words	Synonyms & Antonyms
Isolated	Synonyms: Confined, Deserted Antonyms: Close, Open
Disruption	Synonyms: Interupption, Break
Ambitious	Synonyms: Determined, Earnest Antonyms: Lethargic, Unenthusiastic
Strident	Synonyms: Blatant, Jarring Antonyms: Silent, Quiet
Redefining	Synonyms: Reconsider, Reformulate
Resistance	Synonyms: Battle, Defiance Antonyms: Aid, Assistance
Influence	Synonyms: Consequence, Domination Antonyms: Cause, Commencement
Intellectual	Synonyms: Creative, Highbrow Antonyms: Body, Physical
Stridency	Synonyms: Babel, Bedlam Antonyms: Calm, Calmness
Plausible	Synonyms: Logical, Credible Antonyms: Improbable, Impossible
Dominant	Synonyms: Assertive, Commanding Antonyms: Incapable, Ineffective
Campaigning	Synonyms: Crusade, Drive Antonyms: Warfare, Expedition