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| 2015 a year of BJP's defeats | | Yearender | | Early Times Report
jammu, Dec 30: 2014 was the year of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP. The BJP under the leadership of Modi not only scored impressive victories in the Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Jharkhand and J&K Assembly elections but also created a history by winning 282 Lok Sabha seats in the 543-Member House. Its allies also performed well and won more than Lok Sabha 55 seats.
It appeared the BJP under Narendra Modi would replicate 2014 in 2015 as well, but what happened was to the contrary. 2015 turned out to be a year of massive and humiliating defeats for the BJP. January 2015 saw the BJP biting dust in the Delhi Assembly elections. The BJP could win only a paltry three seats in the 70-member House. In the earlier elections, it had won 32 seats and emerged as the single largest party. The BJP won three seats despite the fact Narendra Modi as Prime Minister and the party's supreme leader addressed as many as nine rallies and the entire BJP leadership, including Central Ministers and top party leaders drawn from across the country, and the RSS cadres campaigned extensively. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) scored an impressive victory winning 67 seats. It was a defeat that demoralized the party leadership and workers across the country.
The second humiliating defeat that the BJP suffered was in the crucial Bihar. PM Modi addressed 29 election rallies, all massive. It happened for the first time that any Prime Minister campaigned that way. The RSS and almost a dozen Union Ministers, plus BJP national president Amit Shah, camped in Bihar for almost two months. They employed all tricks to woo the Bihari electorate, but with no result. The BJP could win only 53 seats. In 2010, the BJP's tally was 91 in the 243-member House. It was the RJD-JDU-Congress Mahagathbandhan that decimated the BJP. The "secular" won 178 seats and the Congress, which was considered a gone case, won 27 seats out of 41 it contested. The defeat shattered the Prime Minister and debunked the BJP's claim that Amit Shah was a great election strategist and poll manager. The BJP suffered this defeat only last month, in November.
If the BJP was wiped out in Delhi and Bihar, its plight was no different in the by-polls held in Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand, as also in the Panchayat and urban local bodies elections held in Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. In the by-polls (Ratlam Lok Sabha seat in MP) and (Lohargada Assembly seat in Jharkhand), the BJP lost election to the Congress and with a huge margin. The Congress snatched these seats from the BJP. In Gujarat, the BJP lost hold over the entire rural Gujarat. It was again the Congress that defeated the BJP and defeated it comprehensively. The BJP could win only six Municipal Corporation elections. In Uttar Pradesh where the BJP created history by winning 71 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats, it lost face in the Panchayat elections. The nature of the defeat could be gauged from the fact that the BJP could not win even from those segments which were represented by such top leaders as the Prime Minister himself. The case in point is Varanasi. It was a comprehensive defeat of the BJP. As if all this was not enough to demoralize the BJP leadership, the electorate in Madhya Pradesh defeated the BJP in the just held local bodies' elections. The Congress' score was five and the BJP's only three. Before the elections, it was the BJP which was on the top.
The only victory that the BJP could score was in Leh, Ladakh. In the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Counsil, Leh, elections, the BJP won 18 seats in the 30-member House. It happened when the election process in Bihar was on. PM Modi highlighted this victory during the election campaign to influence the voting pattern there, but with no result. The BJP unseated the Congress that had been at the helm since 2000 without any break. The BJP won the Council because it beguiled the Ladakhi electorate by promising Union Territory status to Ladakh - a promise which still remains unfulfilled. Had the people of Ladakh gone through the agenda of alliance, they would have rejected the BJP. The reason: The agenda of alliance nowhere says that the BJP will grant UT status to Ladakh. The fact of the matter is that the BJP succeeded in misleading the Ladakhi electorate.
The BJP leadership needs to retrospect to find why it suffered defeat after defeat in 2015 and change its style of functioning and fulfill the commitments it made during the Lok Sabha elections. It would become a story of the past in case it continued to behave like it behaved after capturing power in New Delhi. Reports from across the country, including Jammu region, are not encouraging for the BJP. |
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