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With the Maharashtra Assembly elections slated for October this year and weeks after it saw its Lok Sabha poll tally in the state dip to 9 seats from 23 in the 2019 polls, the BJP has come up with a two-pronged strategy to reclaim its dominant position in the state.
POST THE Lok Sabha election setback, the BJP is set to give Pankaja Munde what she has long desired – a stake in state politics. Having failed to win a single seat in the Marathwada region, the party is planning to bring the OBC leader to the House via the Legislative Council, followed by a ministerial post, sources said.
The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar), which won eight of the 10 Lok Sabha seats it contested in the recent elections, believes it could have performed better but for the fact that the “tutari” (trumpet) – similar to its poll symbol – is part of the Election Commission’s (EC) list of free symbols, to be allotted to Independents or unregistered political parties.
NILESH LANKE won twice. The first time was on June 4, when the NCP (SP) leader defeated his heavyweight BJP rival, Sujay Vikhe-Patil, from Ahmednagar in Maharashtra. The second time was Tuesday, when the first-timer MP stepped up to take the oath in Parliament and began with the words, “I, Nilesh Dyandev Lanke…”.
Barely four kilometres from the epicentre of the Manoj Jarange Patil-led Maratha quota agitation Antarwali Sarati village in Maharashtra’s Jalna district, starting June 13 Other Backward Classes (OBC) activists Laxman Hake and Navnath Waghmare sat on an indefinite hunger strike in Vadi Godri village that was seen as a counter-protest.
Maharashtra civil supplies minister and senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Chhagan Bhujbal is known in state political circles as a firebrand who often speaks his mind. Bhujbal seems to be again keeping his party and the Mahayuti coalition guessing, this time over the Maratha quota issue as well as the Rajya Sabha nomination for party chief Ajit Pawar’s wife Suntera.
At a time when the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra is in the initial stages of assessing its below-par performance in the Lok Sabha elections, the outcome of the elections to 11 seats of the Maharashtra Legislative Council, the dates for which are expected to be announced soon, may test the loyalty of the MLAs of the ruling coalition as well as the Opposition.
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.