Analysis | BJP faces organisational challenges post polls

BJP’s failure to breach fortress Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal and drawing a clean in Kerala was solely offset by its return to energy in safe numbers in Assam and victory of the NDA in Puducherry. Challenges for the BJP are, nevertheless, each organisational and existential.

Who will probably be CM in Assam?

In Assam for instance, the BJP’s victory has thrown up the attention-grabbing conundrum of simply who must be the brand new chief minister — sitting Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal or Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who’s the BJP’s energy home within the northeast holding its alliances in a number of States collectively, and managed to steer the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests away from politically harming the BJP within the State. Senior celebration leaders have been saying that the celebration’s parliamentary board will probably be taking a view on the matter, that means {that a} query mark is hanging on the problem.

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West Bengal classes

In West Bengal, it has turn into clear that the constituency that rose to present BJP 18 seats within the 2019 General Elections has considerably shifted again to the Trinamool Congress, a consolidation of girls and minority votes additionally appears to have helped Mamata Banerjee. As BJP normal secretary accountable for West Bengal Kailash Vijaywargiya stated, “It seems Bengal wants Mamata Banerjee as chief minister.” He additionally added that the concern of contracting COVID-19 might have stored BJP voters at residence.

In the most important causes for its failure to win, BJP leaders level out that the shortage of an area face as a chief ministerial candidate harm them, however extra importantly an over dependence on TMC defectors for each organisational heft and as candidates didn’t go down nicely with the voters. Many of the excessive profile flip coats together with former ministers within the Mamata Banerjee authorities misplaced the polls.

Existential Issue

The huge difficulty, nevertheless, is extra deep, and that has to do with the big second wave of COVID-19 that’s battering India. The BJP, which all the time sought the “party of governance” badge for itself, is now floundering on that rating. BJP has all the time identified that the outdated Congress slogan towards the Jan Sangh (BJP’s earlier avatar) of “shaasan karna koi khel nahin, Jan Sangh ke diyon major tel nahin (governance isn’t a sport, these lamps of Jan Sangh haven’t any oil — lamp being the Jan Sangh image), now not utilized to them as governments led by the celebration have been re-elected for a number of phrases each in States and on the Centre.

And whereas the jury continues to be out whether or not the second wave of COVID-19 and the lengthy drawn out polling schedule had a bearing on the TMC victory and the BJP’s loss, subsequent yr’s electoral calendar is looming massive.

Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, two States which are being battered by the pandemic and a well being and governance infrastructure that’s tottering and failing are scheduled to go to polls subsequent yr. Both are States which have sitting BJP governments, and the celebration’s personal fortresses will probably be beneath siege. While the BJP has turn into a celebration of meticulous electoral planning and execution, the efficiency of its governments in these two states will probably be beneath the scanner, as of that of the Central authorities.

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The Puucho’s Resident Editor in Delhi Amit Baruah, Political Editor Nistula Hebbar and Deputy Editor Sandeep Phukan will take us by way of the election outcomes and focus on what to anticipate subsequent.