2024 General Elections: BJP Leaves Nothing to Chance

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2024 General Elections: BJP Leaves Nothing to Chance

Even as the  Congress mobilises the masses on the ground or retool the party organisation,  Radhika Ramaseshan (Senior Journalist, writing for The Tribune) states “the BJP has a catch-all strategy devised before the 2014 elections that seeks to optimise the amassing of voters and energise the organisation at every tier so that the two aspects work in tandem without contradictions.

“The concept of micro-level booth management through the instruments of the ‘panna pramukh’ (designated workers to scrutinise voter rolls) and the ‘labhartee sampark pramukh’ (persons assigned to work with the recipients of the Centre’s welfare programmes), drawn from the RSS’ vast pool of ‘pracharaks’ (volunteers), best exemplifies this amalgam of the BJP.”

It has left nothing to chance.

On Modi’s radar, states  Ramaseshan are  the “Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), the Trinamool Congress (TMC), and, of course, the Congress. The first three regional entities have thwarted the BJP’s entry in their turf. While the party has registered gains in Telangana against the TRS, the AAP-ruled Delhi and the TMC-controlled West Bengal remain challenges…….

“Singly, it is probably tough for the regional players to take on the BJP effectively in a Lok Sabha poll. If they regroup into a front, with or without the Congress, that could potentially give a good fight on the presumed strengths of social equations, a countervailing narrative that focuses only on bread-butter issues impinging on price rise and complaints of unequal distribution of resources and aid from the government’s schemes. A combined front could reduce the BJP’s target of netting 350 seats to an air castle.”

The BJP leadership has anticipated this possibility even though the Opposition remained scattered.


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