The poll season is picking up, with four politically important states
going to elections in the next couple of months. These are the first
major elections, since the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, where the BJP-led NDA
was voted to power with a thumping majority. It is important for the BJP
to maintain its winning streak. But the recent by-election results in
Bihar, Uttarakhand, UP, Rajasthan, Bihar and Gujarat, have come as a
jolt for the party. It was routed in UP and Rajasthan and ceded ground
in Bihar and Modi’s home state, Gujarat. The only consolation for the
party was its having opened an account in the West Bengal Assembly.
The humiliating defeat in bypolls have put BJP completely on backfoot. It is unbelievable that the same party which was invincible four months back now trampled by SP in Uttar Pradesh.
The results raise the question why the BJP is on the back foot so soon. While the party claimed that local issues mattered in the by-elections, there were some who believe that the party had come to depend on the Modi magic and had become arrogant and complacent.
The flip side is that the BJP does not have any credible chief ministerial candidate and is totally counting on Modi magic to do the trick. The party cannot gain anything substantial by counting on leaders like Rao Inderjit Singh or Chaudhary Birendra Singh, who until recently, were in the Congress.
The humiliating defeat in bypolls have put BJP completely on backfoot. It is unbelievable that the same party which was invincible four months back now trampled by SP in Uttar Pradesh.
The results raise the question why the BJP is on the back foot so soon. While the party claimed that local issues mattered in the by-elections, there were some who believe that the party had come to depend on the Modi magic and had become arrogant and complacent.
The flip side is that the BJP does not have any credible chief ministerial candidate and is totally counting on Modi magic to do the trick. The party cannot gain anything substantial by counting on leaders like Rao Inderjit Singh or Chaudhary Birendra Singh, who until recently, were in the Congress.
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