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| UP, Bihar election results warning for BJP in State | | Unrest in Jammu, Ladakh | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 15: The spectacular performance of SP-BSP combine of the otherwise comprehensively defeat Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati in UP and RJD of Lalu Prasad Yadav in the Lok Sabha by-polls has jolted the otherwise very confident BJP, now ruling in 21 states either on its own or in alliance.
Results were declared on Thursday. What has jolted the BJP all the more is its massive defeat in UP's Gorakhpur and Phulpur. Both these prestigious constituencies were represented in the Lok Sabha by the incumbent UP CM Yogi Adityanath and incumbent Dy CM Maurya.
Both had won the seats in 2014 with a huge margins ranging from 2 to over 3 lakh popular votes and the BJP lost both the seats by a whopping margin of almost 60,000 votes. Gorakhpur was the BJP bastion and the SP and BSP never ever dreamt that they would ever demolish the BJP's Gorakhpur citadel.
The defeat of the BJP in UP in particular has alarmed the BJP high command and reports from the BJP headquarters in Delhi suggest that the BJP think-tanks would revise their whole election strategy taking into account the electoral reverses in UP and Bihar. Earlier also, the BJP had lost almost all the by-elections it fought. It lost in Punjab's Gurdaspur, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh and lost with huge margins. The Congress won all these by-polls.
In 2014, the BJP on its own had won 282 seats. Right now, its strength in the Lok Sabha is 272, 10 less then its actual tally. In other words, it lost 10 Lok Sabha seats in less than four years.
All this suggest that the people in the cow-belt have started drifting away from the BJP. In Jammu and Ladakh, the situation is no different.
Jammu province from Lakhanpur to Nowshera and Jammu city itself are witnessing anti-BJP demonstrations.
The Kathua-Samba, border districts, stand totally disturbed. People cutting across party lines are coming on to the roads shouting anti-BJP slogans and demanding justice for the innocents and demanding CBI probe in the alleged murder of a minor Gujjar girl in Hiarnagar's Rassana Village.
The manner in which the state government and the Crime Branch have handled the case has only added fuel to the fire. What has added more to the anger of the people is the failure of the BJP to come up to their expectations. At least two BJP ministers, one Union Minister and two MLAs from Hiranagar and Kathua had held out a promise that they would ensure that the case was handed over to the CBI, but, much to the chagrin of the people, nothing of this sort happened. And the result is widespread unrest, discontent and anger.
Sunerbani and Nowshera tehsils, again border tehsils, are on the boil. They have been demanding district status for the twin tehsils for almost 4 weeks now.
Here again, the BJP ministers failed to redress their grievance with the CM, Mehbooba Mufti, putting her foot down, thus leaving the BJP ministers in the lurch and to the mercy of the people of the disturbed tehsils.
The people of these two tehsils have now no love lost for the BJP. The nature of their anger could be gauged from the fact that they have given the call "Challo Jammu" on March 17.
The third serious factor that has made the BJP all the more unpopular in the province were the February 14, 2018 directions to the revenue officials and police not to disturb or dislocate the tribal people from the state and forest lands they had occupied illegally in Jammu, as also not to check the bovine movement from one place to another.
There are several other issues which have widened the gulf between the people and the BJP. Some of these include the pro-Kashmir job and admission policy; denial of citizenship rights to the refugees from West Pakistan; denial of minority rights to the minority Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists; failure of the BJP to tackle the issue of internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus; settlement of illegal Bangladeshi and Rohingya immigrants in Jammu, Samba and Kathua; the failure of the BJP to get delimitation commission constituted; and so on.
If the J&K BJP is not to suffer the kind of the BJP suffered in UP and Bihar, it has to assert its position and authority. If it continued to play the role of second fiddles, the people of Jammu will reject it like the people of UP, Bihar, Punjab, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh rejected the BJP in the crucial Lok Sabha and Assembly by-polls. The ball is in the BJP's court. |
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