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Andhra Pradesh’s YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) that were routed in the recently concluded Lok Sabha and Assembly elections will still have some say when it comes to legislation because of their strength in the Rajya Sabha.
Andhra Pradesh’s YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) and Odisha’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) that were routed in the recently concluded Lok Sabha and Assembly elections will still have some say when it comes to legislation because of their strength in the Rajya Sabha.
Stung by its poor performance in Maharashtra that saw its tally fall from 23 in 2019 to nine this time, the BJP has decided to undertake a massive outreach plan — “ghar ghar chalo abhiyan (let’s go to every household campaign)” — in a bid to reconnect with voters. This was among the many decisions taken at a meeting of the party’s state leadership held on Friday to conduct an initial review of the election results.
The BJP rose as a formidable political force in western UP in 2014, a year after the Muzaffarnagar riots. In the rest of the crucial heartland state too, in 2014, the BJP turned a new leaf, as it swept the Lok Sabha polls riding the Narendra Modi wave. In the process the BJP routed key regional players like the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which had between them held power in the state for over a decade.
In 2018, the BJP-led Central government launched the Aspirational Districts Programme that sought to develop the 112 most under-developed districts across the country.
Murlidhar Mohol, 49, started off as a booth-level worker for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), went on to become Pune Mayor and is now the city’s first Lok Sabha member to be part of the Union Council of Ministers in 38 years. The Minister of State for the ministries of Civil Aviation and Cooperation — a former wrestler whose grandfather, father, uncle and elder brother have all been wrestlers — spoke to The Indian Express about his elevation to New Delhi’s political arena, cooperative institutions, RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat recent remarks on electoral decorum, the forthcoming state polls in Maharashtra and the Porsche hit-and-run case. Edited excerpts:
At a time the BJP is set to conduct a review of its Lok Sabha election performance in Uttar Pradesh and several leaders have blamed “internal sabotage” for the party’s poor showing, two prominent BJP leaders from west UP are publicly targeting each other.
The induction of ex-Congress MP from Ludhiana, Ravneet Singh Bittu, grandson of slain former Punjab chief minister and Congress stalwart Beant Singh, into the new Narendra Modi-led Union ministry as the Minister of State (MoS) within three months of switching to the BJP – and despite losing the Lok Sabha polls – has signalled a new approach of the ruling party towards Punjab politics.