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| BJP to 'create history' in coming ULBs, Panchayat elections: Khanna | | Day dreaming | | Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 7: The BJP leadership on Sunday held a meeting under the chairmanship of its Prabhari, Avinash Rai Khanna. Besides discussing the possibility or otherwise of re-stitching alliance with the PDP, the BJP leaders also discussed the poll prospects of the party in the upcoming Urban Local Bodies' and Panchayat elections.
Addressing the party leadership, Khanna asked the local leadership to work hard, go to the people, highlight the achievements of the BJP at the State and national level and create history by winning maximum number of seats and panchayats in the coming ULBs and Panchayat elections.
Gone are the days when the people of Jammu province would trust the BJP, turn towards it and vote overwhelmingly for it. Things have changed and changed drastically with the masses holding themselves aloof from it. In fact, the BJP lost its appeal and sheen in the last Assembly elections itself, notwithstanding the fact that it could win 25 out of 37 Assembly seats from the province.
The BJP did create history by winning so many seats, but it lost the elections in terms of votes. The BJP could get only 22.5 per cent of the total votes polled. In the Lok Sabha elections, which were held just six months before, the BJP had polled 32.5 per cent votes and won both the Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and the lone Ladakh Lok Sabha seats.
The decrease of a whopping 10 per cent votes and that too before the BJP joined hands with the PDP to become part of the J&K Government was a clear indication that it had lost considerable political space to other parties. The decrease also indicated the decline in Narendra Modi's popularity.
It needs to be understood that the people of Jammu and Ladakh, like the people in the rest of the country, had not voted for the BJP; they had voted for Narendra Modi, who had held out several categorical commitments that he, if voted to power, will solve all the problems facing them and the country and would adopt and implement policies that would put hostile nations like Pakistan on the mat and enhance the national prestige in the eyes of the international community. The 2014 elections were not really elections between the BJP and other political parties; the 2014 elections were, in fact, elections between Narendra Modi on the one side and all other political parties on the other side with Modi creating a history of sorts not only at the national level but also in the States, including J&K, which went to the polls to elect new assemblies. 333 Hindu and three Sikh NDA candidates under his leadership won the Lok Sabha elections hands down.
2016 is not 2014. Much water has flown down the Tawi and Indus rivers. The people of both the regions have understood what the BJP is and what it stands for. They now know it well that the BJP is a party which is bereft of any ideology and which, for grabbing power, could go to any extent. They no longer trust the BJP and its leadership and they exhibited their hatred for the BJP between April and August 2015 and even thereafter through shutdowns, hunger strikes, dharnas and protests, protest marches.
If the prevailing political environment in Jammu province is any indication, then it can be presumed that the BJP will bite dust in the ULBs and Panchayat elections. Believe it or not, the truth is that the BJP workers at the grassroots level have predicted a doom for the BJP. They say and say it openly that the "BJP leadership has destroyed the party" and that the "BJP will suffer the kind of defeat it suffered in Delhi in January 2015". "The people now hate the BJP," they said, adding that "the BJP has nothing in its kitty to offer" and that "the conduct of the BJP Ministers and leaders has created a high wall of hatred between the party and the people". |
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