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The growing tension in the Maharashtra BJP against its alliance partners – the Shiv Sena, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, and the NCP, led by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar – after the debacle in the recent Lok Sabha polls has raised questions on the projected unity of the ruling Mahayuti.
For the BJP, apart from Uttar Pradesh, its performance in Maharashtra in the Lok Sabha elections is likely to be as big a disappointment. While the party’s tally plummeted from 23 to nine, its allies did not fare much better either as the Shiv Sena won seven and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) of Ajit Pawar only one.
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.
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.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Navneet Rana has stoked a fresh controversy after she said those who don't want to say 'Jai Shri Ram' can go to Pakistan.
A former Congress stronghold and the seat of the RSS headquarters, the BJP has coasted to victory in Nagpur in the last two Lok Sabha polls with Union Minister Nitin Gadkari winning both times. But with its vote share having gone up 10 percentage points in 2019, people in the city talking about local issues such as unemployment and civic amenities, and given the caste dynamics, the Congress believes it is in with a chance this time around.
After the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), the BJP may be preparing to bring another party on board the ruling alliance in Maharashtra.
Congress leader Padmakar Valvi met state BJP president Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Maech 12, Tuesday.