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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.
With the year-end state Assembly elections and the losses in the recent Lok Sabha polls weighing on its mind, the Mahayuti government led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde Friday presented a Budget where politics dominated over economics.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Hours after Maharashtra BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis offered to resign as Deputy Chief Minister over the party’s poor performance in the state, he received a call from Union Home Minister Amit Shah, assuring a hearing to him regarding his concerns.