Sources On BJP’s Ballot Plans
The BJP hopes Prime Minister Modi’s charisma will assist it win forthcoming state and nationwide polls (File)
New Delhi:
The BJP will depend on “collective management” and the “Modi issue” in 5 state polls due this yr, sources have informed NDTV, revealing particulars of plans to bounce again from the chastening loss in Karnataka in Could and a 3-4 defeat – to the opposition INDIA bloc – in bypolls earlier this month.
Sources have additionally stated the celebration will strive to not venture a chief ministerial candidate, significantly not within the majority Hindi-speaking states of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, in an try to hold regional leaders’ ambitions and rivalries in verify, and reinforce the “celebration above particular person” maxim.
In easy phrases, the BJP is hoping big-name candidates will safe seats during which it’s weaker, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s enchantment will see the celebration win one other spherical of elections, and that an open chief minister’s publish will act as an incentive to encourage regional leaders to work more durable.
The plan is to additionally curb nepotism and keep away from “dynasty politics” jibes, significantly because the allegation is one the PM lays on the door of the Congress. The celebration will now give one ticket per household, sources stated.
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A glimpse of those plans had been on provide this week in Madhya Pradesh.
4 MPs, three union ministers, and nationwide common secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya – will contest and there iis no place (but) for Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
BJP sources informed NDTV speak Mr Chouhan might be denied a ticket are “improper”, however the “any huge chief will be CM post-election” caveat doesn’t augur properly for the 64-year-old’s speedy political future.
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Within the context of the Madhya Pradesh polls prep, NDTV was informed that fielding MPs and union ministers conveys the “collective management” message; that message was underlined immediately too, with sources saying the celebration hopes fielding its “greatest group” will give it an edge over the Congress.
Additionally, in every of those states veteran leaders might be tasked with flipping seats misplaced 5 years in the past.
The BJP will use the identical strategy to dislodge the Congress from Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, and in Telangana, the place Chief Minister Ok Chandrashekhar Rao’s Bharat Rashtra Samithi awaits.
BJP’s Rajasthan Meeting Election Plans
In Rajasthan, doable chief minister faces embody union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and Arjun Ram Meghwal, and doable candidates embody Rajya Sabha MP Dr Kirodi Lal Meena and Lok Sabha MPs Diya Kumar, Rajyavardhan Rathore, and Sukhveer Singh Jaunpuria.
Vasundhara Raje, 70, a two-term Chief Minister and a member of the Scindia royal household, is unlikely to return, even when she is extensively seen because the BJP’s tallest and most influential chief within the state.
How the celebration handles Ms Raje, who has perhaps essentially the most enchantment to non-BJP voters, might be vital, since she is going to nearly definitely not sit within the Meeting as a MLA beneath one other chief minister.
The BJP’s first checklist – round 49 seats – for Rajasthan is predicted quickly, presumably after Union House Minister Amit Shah and celebration boss JP Nadda’s meet in Jaipur this night.
Baghel Vs Baghel In Chhattisgarh
The BJP has gone a distinct route in Chhattisgarh, the place it has named Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s nephew, Vijay, as its candidate for the highest publish. And, in a predictable twist, the celebration will need household divides to play out in its favour, for it has deliberate a ‘Baghel Vs Baghel contest.
BJP MP Vijay Baghel (L) and (R) his uncle, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel
Vijay Baghel, who can also be a Lok Sabha MP, will combat from Patan within the Durg district. The seat has flip-flopped between the 2 since 2003, with the Chief Minister successful the final two polls.
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Different potential BJP candidates embody Union Minister Renuka Singh and Rajya Sabha MP Saroj Pandey. Considerably, the BJP hasn’t but named former Chief Minister Raman Singh in its lists.
Battle For Telangana
The BJP’s tilt at Telangana is a part of its ongoing ‘Mission South’ plan – to determine a authorities in South India, part of the nation that has often rejected its hardcore nationalist agenda.
The celebration did have Karnataka however its stuttering authorities was ousted by a dominant Congress earlier this yr. Kerala stays fully resistant to its charms, and Tamil Nadu has additionally rejected Prime Minister Modi’s celebration; on Tuesday the AIADMK walked out of the party-led NDA.
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Telangana and Andhra Pradesh have additionally confirmed to be exhausting nuts to crack.
The previous is because of vote in November and Union Minister G Kishan Reddy is a doable big-name candidate. Mr Reddy, who’s from Telangana’s Thimmapur area, can also be the celebration’s state boss.
There’s speak Lok Sabha MPs Bandi Sanjay Kumar and Arvind Dharmapuri, each additionally from Telangana, could also be fielded, as might the celebration’s OBC Entrance chief and Rajya Sabha MP Dr Ok Laxman.
The fifth state going to the polls this yr is Mizoram, the place the BJP faces a probably totally different sort of problem – the knock-on impact of ethnic violence in neighbouring Manipur.
