{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgrand-tamasha-418b04e4.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Finside-the-bjp-campaign-2sm157If","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Inside the BJP Campaign","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ae6533df-095e-4fef-b7ef-69ea44f76a8c/44288811-26b1-40b1-93a2-801cab0764fc/gt4-30-episode-simplecast.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/ad782ebe-9077-4acc-b544-7301d882abbb\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"Inside the BJP Campaign\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"The incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi entered this election as the clear favorite with every single pre-election survey pointing a decisive victory. However, the party is leaving no stone unturned in its effort to notch a third consecutive parliamentary majority.\n\nTo discuss the BJP’s campaign, Milan is joined on the show this week by Smriti Kak Ramachandran, a veteran journalist who covers the BJP for the Hindustan Times. Smriti has spent over a decade in journalism combining old fashioned leg work with modern story telling tools.\n\nMilan and Smriti discuss how the BJP is responding to lower-than-expected turnout in the first phase of voting, Modi’s communally-tinged speech in Rajasthan, and the surprising omission from the BJP’s manifesto. Plus, the two discuss the states the BJP is keeping a close eye on, from Odisha in the east to Tamil Nadu in the south."}