Sunita Aron is a former executive editor, and now the consulting editor of the Hindustan Times in Lucknow. The first woman newspaper editor in Uttar Pradesh, Sunita has covered the state\u2019s politics for over four decades and written extensively on the Ayodhya issue, the Mandal agitation and the rise and fall of regional forces in the country. Satraps, Coalitions and Power Games is her fourth book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who halted the BJP\u2019s victorious march and yet paved the way for Narendra Modi\u2019s third term? Not the Congress, but India\u2019s ambitious regional parties. Defying the might of the BJP\u2019s political aandhi, these powerful satraps and dynastic heirs have reimagined India\u2019s electoral landscape. From Akhilesh Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav to Udhayanidhi Stalin and Nara Lokesh, a new generation of regional leaders has risen\u2014blending local clout with national ambition. Are they simply power brokers, or do they represent authentic, local aspirations in a nation as diverse as India? Should the country gravitate towards a two-party system, or does its vast cultural diversity demand a multiparty system? In the absence of constitutional limits, regional parties negotiate hard, especially in coalition politics\u2014and national parties are often willing partners in this high-stakes game. In this compelling political narrative, veteran journalist Sunita Aron chronicles the rise, reinvention, and resilience of India\u2019s regional parties and their quirky family saga and electoral manoeuvres. Satraps, Coalitions and Power Games reveals how these regional players continue to script the story of India\u2019s political future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[69,71,88],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9934","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-new-arrivals","7":"product_cat-non-fiction","8":"product_cat-politics","9":"pa_book-author-sunita-aron","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"purchasable","15":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.crisscrosssolutions.in\/Vitasta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}