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The leaders of a slew of parties from countries across the world are set to visit India during the Lok Sabha elections on the BJP’s invitation to witness the scale of the polls and understand the ruling party’s campaign strategies.
President Droupadi Murmu’s address to Parliament Thursday was a strong assertion of continuity that the next five years would build on the previous ten. Without referring to allies, the speech flagged the “clear majority” to the Government for a third term on the back of a “decisive mandate” and invoked the “unstable” (read coalition) governments of the past.
Addressing both Houses of Parliament in the first session after the recent Lok Sabha polls, President Droupadi Murmu on Thursday invoked the Emergency of 1975, calling it “the biggest and darkest chapter of direct attack on the Constitution”.
Under attack from the Opposition over alleged attempts to “change the Constitution”, the BJP has fallen back on the Emergency card.
Coalition politics has made a comeback at the national stage after 10 years of a de facto one-party rule as the BJP enjoyed majority on its own and did not depend on its allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for legislative strength.
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.
SHORT of a majority and needing the support of his allies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday framed the mandate and the road ahead in terms that were conciliatory signalling a reaching out to states and to parties across the aisle.
As the trends of the 2024 Lok Sabha election results started firming up by Tuesday evening, it became clear that the ruling BJP is falling short of the majority mark of 272 by more than 30 seats on its own steam, losing more than 60 seats as compared to its individual tally of 303 in the 2019 polls.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma was the BJP’s surprise pick for the state’s top post last year. Months after assuming office, his first challenge was leading the BJP in a state which the party had swept in the past two Lok Sabha elections.