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Amid hectic parleys on the composition of the incoming Union Council of Ministers led by Narendra Modi, the BJP leadership held a meeting Thursday with senior RSS functionaries including Arun Kumar who is the interface between the party and the Sangh.
As the Samajwadi Party (SP) outperformed the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, one of its highlights was the victory in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency of which Ayodhya is a part. The party’s veteran MLA Awadhesh Prasad, one of the SP’s founder members, defeated two-time MP Lallu Singh by 54,567 votes. Prasad was the only Dalit candidate to win from a non-reserved constituency in UP.
From winning all the 10 seats in 2019 down to five, the BJP’s Haryana setback in the Lok Sabha polls has shocked many. These numbers are crucial because they could have a bearing on the state’s Assembly polls scheduled for October.
One man’s loss is another’s gain, the phrase holds true for the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), which drew a blank in the Lok Sabha polls and has seemingly ceded its political space to the BJP.
THE BJP’s big loss in Uttar Pradesh included setbacks in the regions of Ayodhya and Varanasi, both crucial to the party’s Hindutva project, which its governments in the state and Centre have both showered special attention on since coming to power.
The stellar performance of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP), led by Chandrababu Naidu, in Andhra Pradesh, winning 16 of the 17 Lok Sabha seats it contested, and the BJP falling short of the half-way mark at the Centre has catapulted the TDP as the second-largest constituent of the BJP-led NDA, thus giving it a strong bargaining hand.
The Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, consecrated in January, marked the completion of one of the Sangh Parivar’s ideological goals and was initially expected to boost the BJP’s prospects in the Lok Sabha elections. But as the party took a big hit in Uttar Pradesh, with its tally almost halved, one of its most prominent losses was in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency of which Ayodhya is a part.
MAHARASHTRA was considered a state which might make or break the BJP’s fortunes in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. And it held true to that, bringing down the party to nine seats from 23 in 2019, and stopping it well short of a majority in Parliament.