Analysis: Elections are going to be held in 5 states, BJP is most confident about Rajasthan

Be it at the state level or at the party’s organizational level, the BJP is in full swing to defeat the current Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan. However, both the all-India parties have to sort out the factionalism that exists within their parties. The Congress high command may have anticipated ‘all is well’ between Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot by holding a separate meeting in Delhi, with the two Rajasthan stalwarts being photographed together. The grand old party has sent a message to its political rival that it will fight the upcoming state assembly elections unitedly with both Gehlot and Pilot to take on the BJP. However, the meeting took place just after Pilot’s “ultimatum” that he would launch a statewide agitation if his three demands from the Rajasthan government were not met by the end of this month.

At the same time, BJP is also facing issues of factionalism within its own party. On one side is former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Vasundhara Raje Scindia, who is still not ready to give up her claim for the post of CM, while on the other side are the names of Union Ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Arjun Ram. Several other BJP leaders, including Meghwal, former state BJP president Satish Poonia and Leader of Opposition Rajendra Rathore, are also doing the rounds to stake claim for the post of CM in Rajasthan. Out of the five states where assembly elections are to be held this year (Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Telangana), the saffron party has high hopes from the Rajasthan assembly elections. According to sources, the BJP high command feels that if all the leaders of the party unite and contest the assembly elections, then it is certain that the party’s government will be formed in Rajasthan.

This is the reason why BJP national president JP Nadda held several meetings in Delhi to end the factionalism going on in the party unit in Rajasthan and advised all the leaders of the state to fight the upcoming elections together. At Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent rally in Ajmer, the saffron party sent a political message by inviting all the top leaders of the state to appear on a single platform, to show that the party was ready to fight the elections unitedly. Rejects all claims of factionalism Commenting on the political situation in Rajasthan and the strategy drawn up by the party, a senior BJP national leader told IANS that in view of the political situation in Rajasthan, the party is working towards a collective leadership. Under this, the saffron party is planning to contest the state elections, that is, the saffron party will not declare any state party leader as the chief ministerial candidate and it will be decided only after the election results are out.

During the election campaign, the saffron party will highlight the shortcomings of the Ashok Gehlot government and highlight the achievements of its most popular leader Narendra Modi and urge the people of the state to vote out the double engine BJP government in the state and at the Centre. In March this year, the BJP high command appointed Lok Sabha MP from Chittorgarh CP Joshi, replacing the then state party president Satish Poonia, in a bid to end factionalism within the state BJP unit. The BJP high command had sent Joshi to Jaipur with clear instructions that factionalism in the party should be ended in Rajasthan and preparations should be made for the upcoming assembly elections by taking all the leaders of the party along. Asked about the factionalism prevailing in the state, the Rajasthan BJP president told IANS: “No one person works for the party, the whole organization works together. Our aim is to defeat the Congress government from here, bring the BJP to power.” should bring.” The people of Rajasthan have also made up their mind to bring the BJP government to power in the state, for which we all are working unitedly with one goal.

Asked what is the basis of forming the BJP government in the state and how will the BJP communicate with the people of Rajasthan, Joshi told IANS that he would like to seek support from the people of the state regarding the work done by the Modi government during the last nine years. Will ask Highlighting the failed poll promises of the Ashok Gehlot government, he said he has full faith in the people of Rajasthan that the BJP will form the government in the state. Accusing the Gehlot government of making big false promises, the Rajasthan BJP president said that the people of the state know that all the development works that were being done during the tenure of the previous BJP government since the Gehlot government came to power. are stalled. , He said that after coming to power in Rajasthan, the Congress had assured loan waiver of all farmers, but did not fulfill even one of its main poll promises.

The state BJP president said, the Gehlot government had also promised to provide employment allowance to the unemployed youth, but on the contrary, it has put the future of lakhs of youth in danger by allegedly openly doing corruption in the Rajasthan Public Service Commission. Joshi said that the Chief Minister had promised that he would not increase the electricity rates in Rajasthan, but increased the rates several times in the last five years. Asserting that the people of Rajasthan are suffering from inflation, the top BJP leader said: “Rajasthan has the costliest petrol, diesel and electricity prices in the country. It tops the list of states with most atrocities on women, Dalits and children.” is up.” In the matter of corruption, Rajasthan is ahead of all other states across the country. On the contrary, BJP works on all the election promises made before the public.

Referring to the achievements of the Modi government at the Center in the last nine years, the state BJP president said that the Modi government has done many such works of development which the Congress could never complete in the last 60 years. Joshi said that there has been a lot of development in the country, the country’s border has been protected, the morale of the army has increased manifold and India’s pride in the world has increased and this nine-year rule has been unmatched. , Claiming to form the government with a huge majority in the state, the state BJP president said that the people of the state want that if there is a Modi government at the centre, then a BJP government should be formed in Rajasthan too so that the state can be developed. Fast with the help of double engine govt.