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Amid signs of dissent in Uttar Pradesh following the party’s poor show in the Lok Sabha elections, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has assumed direct control of preparations for 10 Assembly bypolls that will be held in the state after their MLAs were elected to Parliament.
As the ruling BJP and the principal Opposition Congress begin preparations for the Haryana Assembly polls, slated for October this year, the Lok Sabha results for the state’s 10 seats show that the two rivals are neck-and-neck.
The 10-day hunger strike by Other Backward Class (OBC) activists Laxman Hake and Navnath Waghmare in Jalna district’s Wadigodri village in the Marathwada region, which ended Saturday, was a renewed assertion to aggressively counter the movement for Maratha reservation within the OBC category in Maharashtra.
The BJP has appointed several top politicians — including Union Ministers and Chief Ministers — as election in-charges for Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand, and Jammu and Kashmir. The announcement came mere weeks after Lok Sabha elections saw the saffron party return to power with a muted majority.
As the BJP fell well short of the majority mark in Parliament in the recent Lok Sabha elections, one of the states where it lost ground is Maharashtra as itstally fell from 23 to nine.
The BJP last week registered its best-ever parliamentary election result in Kerala, winning its first-ever Lok Sabha seat in the state, with actor Suresh Gopi, the winner from Thrissur, rewarded with a place in the Union Council of Ministers of the new Modi-led government. The party also increased its vote share from 13% to 16.68%. State BJP president K Surendran speaks about the party’s performance and the road ahead. Excerpts:
The BJP is well on its way to returning to power in Arunachal Pradesh with even more commanding numbers than in the last Assembly, with wins in 42 seats and leads in another four in the elections to the 60-member House.
The Election Commission (EC) is set to announce the results of the Assembly elections in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim following the counting of votes on Sunday, more than a month after the two Northeastern states went to simultaneous polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19.