New Delhi sources stated that after election analysis done immediately and results which were announced is like blind men describing an elephant. It is clear in even the most perfunctory scrutiny the BJP is losing its traction among the urban middle class. Meanwhile the earliest set of data indicates that not only has the BJP's supposedly impregnable voter base eroded the Congress has also eaten into this pie.
Accordingly the concomitant swings have created a perceptible gap into which fell the party's hopes of retaining the Hindi heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Furthermore it holds over urban areas had helped the BJP clinch the tough fight against the Congress in Gujarat last year. Hence among the 42 urban seats in Modi's homeland, spread across eight major cities, BJP bagged 36, while the rest went to the Congress.
Reportedly Modi government had some sops for almost every interest group in the country except the middle class, who, instead, of any gratification in the forms of "tax cuts or sops, has had to contend with higher cesses".