PM Modi’s ‘Unparliamentary Language’ Downed NDA In Bihar: BJP MP Bhola Singh

Our assumption that the three parties of the Grand Alliance wouldn’t be able to transfer their votes fully was wrong. Their alliance took 178 of the assembly’s 243 seats, compared with only 58 that went to the BJP and its allies in the National Democratic Alliance.

“The results may embolden smaller regional parties to band together in state elections against the NDA [West Bengal, Kerala, Assam and Tamil Nadu in 2016 and UP, Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur in 2017]”.

The people of Bihar imposed their faith in Nitish Kumar yet again, giving him fifth innings as the Chief Minister. “People were feeling suffocated and they got courage with the Bihar election and now they are speaking”, he added. While BJP’s the crushing defeat in Bihar elections has bolstered concerns that the government would struggle to pass key policy reforms, all may not be lost for the ruling party. His repeated talk of power shortage in Bihar found few takers as delivery of electricity had vastly improved in Bihar in the 10 years that Nitish Kumar had been Chief Minister. No other BJP leaders were as visible through the election as Modi.

Advani, credited with building the BJP since it was left with just two Lok Sabha seats in 1984, has been mostly sidelined since Modi took charge of the party’s campaign committee and, later, the government.

The result is significant for India’s national political scene particularly because state legislators elect members of parliament for the upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha.

Why did BJP go for broke in Bihar and stake PM Modi’s image for a state elections?

Leaving all these things behind, one could also observe that Kejriwal isn’t supportingor endorsing the Grand Alliances comprising RJD, JDU and Congress which makes it sure the isn’t convenient with them while what makes it more comfortable is that the defeat of BJP in the elections.

Except Jahanabad and Darbhanga rural, the main contest across all constituencies covered by Modi was between the BJP or a Grand Alliance constituent (Janata Dal (U), Congress or Rashtriya Janata Dal). Smaller parties including the BSP and the CPI-ML were set to win eight seats.

The BJP-led NDA came to power in 2014 winning a landslide victory securing 336 of the 543 seats in the lower house of the Parliament. As Shekhar Gupta remarked in the NY Times, “Modi is beatable”.

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I am not suggesting that the party follows the preamble of the constitution word by word.

The eight-term MLA said that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat should not have a political comment on reservation during a crucial election. The Congress being the all India is still far away from gaining that status again in the Bihar also.

The BJP, in a statement, later said it was “fortunate” to have been led by leaders like Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Advani for decades, and welcomed any guidance and suggestion from the party’s “seniors” on victories and defeats.