  Emotions play an essential role in public speaking. The emotional content of
speech has the power to influence minds. As such, we present an analysis of the
emotional content of politicians speech in the Indian political scenario. We
investigate the emotional content present in the speeches of politicians using
an Attention based CNN+LSTM network. Experimental evaluations on a dataset of
eight Indian politicians shows how politicians incorporate emotions in their
speeches to strike a chord with the masses. An analysis of the voting share
received along with victory margin and their relation to emotional content in
speech of the politicians is also presented.
