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BJP looses another state

12/24/2019 11:31:48 PM

The grand alliance led by Jharkhand Mukti Morcha wresting power from Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) in Jharkhand has not surprised many people as the exit polls had already predicted that BJP would loose.
After winning the 2019 General Elections with a thumping majority everyone had declared the BJP as an invincible party and had expected it to establish its supermacy in the states also. But it has not happened. Of the three states-Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand where the elections were held after the BJP returned to power at the centre for the second consecutive term, the saffron party has only been able to share power in Haryana with Dushyant Chautala led Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), while in other two states it has been made to sit in the opposition.
The Congress has managed to share power in Maharashtra and in Jharkhand despite losing Parliamentary Elections in the country. Revival of Congress is an indication that BJP is loosing its foothold in the states where elections are fought on local issues.
Results of Jharkhand elections have been announced at a time when protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) have rattled the country. Some are saying that CAA has sunk the BJP in Jharkhand. The Congress is celebrating its victory and its leaders are creating a notion that their party is on way to oust the BJP from power even at the national level. But Congress leaders seem to be ignoring a point that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has emerged as the undisputed leader at the national level and people in 2014 and 2019 voted for him. At many places voters were unaware about the names of the candidates whom they were voting for. Their vote was for Modi.
One needs to understand that General Elections and elections in the state are different ball games and these cannot be mixed. People who are writing off BJP seem to have forgotten that there is still a long way to go for the Parliamentary Elections. Whatever said and done BJP leaders should sit back and think why the party which emerged with the promise of being different is loosing one state after another and why are its allies drifting away from the party?
The election managers of the saffron party will have to put their act together before polls are announced in the Union Territory of New Delhi as the BJP will have to wrest the power from Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital and it is not going to be an easy task.

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