The UP Electoral results have shown how unreliable and partisan Political Journalism is. To rely on ex-post facto judgments of Why BJP succeeded would be wrong. As is after every election, a host of articles have appeared in online news portals to explain the electoral success of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, and attempts to explain why this was not “observable” by “journalists” on the ground. BJP’s success has stunned everyone, themselves, even. I, of course do not expect Journa