Nitish-Lalu celebrates thumping victory in Bihar as BJP in a state of shock

Bihar Assembly Election Results - 2015 brought back duo of Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav strongly on political map of Bihar and India. Counting of votes for election which was held in 5 phases during October and November resulted in thumping win for Mahagathbandhan. Out of 243 seats in Bihar Assembly, RJD-JDU-Congress bagged 178 seats crossing 2/3^rd majority mark. While BJP led NDA who’s campaigned was centered on Modi-Amit Shah duo managed only 58 seats. Most surprised package of these results was RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav who made historic comeback on National political scene with 80 seats becoming single largest Party.

 

Bihar voters decisively voted to bring back Vikas Purush Nitish Kumar who made hat-trick to continue as Chief Minister for next 5 years. JDU won 71 seats out 101 which they contested while party got 64.2 lakh votes (16.8%). RJD with 80 out 100 seats got 69.95 lakh votes (18.4%). Bihar results came as big relief for Congress party which won 27 out of 42 seats getting 25.4 lakh votes (6.7%). The combination of Yadav and Muslim was intact with RJD-JDU coupled with considerable support from young and female voters who supported Nitish Kumar’s Bihar development model.

 

For BJP, Bihar is second consecutive huge defeat after crushing in Delhi in the hands of Arvind Kejriwal led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). The party could win just 53 seats out of 157 fought getting 93.1 lakh votes (24.4%). The dismal performance of its allies added woes of NDA as LJP (2/42), RLSP (2/23) and HAM (1/21) seats fared poorly in election. The wave for Nitish Kumar was such that BJP lost almost 5% vote share compared with Lok Sabha 2014 election. The RJD-JDU-Congress got 41.9% votes while NDA 34.1% resulting in landslide victory for Mahagathbandhan.

Surprisingly, Shiv Sena which is ally of BJP in Maharashtra contested on more than 100 seats and got 2.1 lakh votes. They also managed to become catalyst for defeat of 3 BJP candidates showing their nuisance value. Bihar election results would have long lasting impact political scenario of India as non BJP politics would be centered around it in future.

It would be interesting to see how BJP reacts to these results in coming days and make changes at both organizational as well as inside government. One is thing is for sure that in India, nobody should take common voter for granted and continuous performance evaluation goes on.

Prime Minister Modi declared special package for poll bound Bihar worth ₹1.25 Lakh Crore

BJP launched 2014 Lok Sabha Election campaign by announcing Team NaMo

Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) announced campaign committee headed by Gujarat CM Narendra Modi includes senior leaders such as Murli Manohar Joshi, Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley, M Venkaiah Naidu, Nitin Gadkari as well as Chief Ministers of BJP ruled states such as Shivraj Singh Chouhan (Madhya Pradesh), Raman Singh (Chhattisgarh) and Manohar Parrikar (Goa).

The party also formed 20 campaign panels for efficient management of upcoming Lok Sabha elections by focusing on aspects such as rallies, manifesto, vision document, social media, publicity, youth and many more.

Entire process reiterates growing importance of NaMo factor in BJP. The team would work under the guidance of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L. K. Advani and party president Rajnath Singh.

Gujarat assembly election “Exit Polls” shows convincing win for Narendra Modi

Higher voter turnout was key highlight during assembly election voting in Gujarat. With emergence of Keshubhai Patel’s Gujarat Parivartan Party (GPP) the battle between BJP and Congress became more interesting. However, most of the exit poll surveys carried out shows clear mandate for Narendra Modi led BJP government to come back to power again.

Out of 182 assembly seats, BJP is likely to win 120-130 seats while Congress could grab 50-55 and others including GPP could manage only 5-7 seats. Apart from positive voting for Narendra Modi on the issue of development’ vote split between GPP and Congress also augured well for BJP.

With consecutive third term at CM’s office in Gujarat, one of most influential leader of the country Mr. Narendra Modi could play vital role in national politics in coming future. In all likelihood, the largest democracy in the world would chant “NaMo, NaMo” in next Lok Sabha election.   

BJP President Nitin Gadkari interview

Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh assembly poll dates declared

Election Commission of India today announced dates for assembly elections to be held in the state of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh (H.P.). Narendra Modi ruled Gujarat to have voting in two phases on December 13^th and 17^th while voters from hilly state of Himachal will exercise their right on 4^th of November. Counting of votes for both sates will take place on 20^th December 2012.

Gujarat has 182 assembly seats while H.P. elects 68 MLAs. Currently, both these states are ruled by main opposition party at the centre – Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). Both the states are likely to witness two way battle between BJP and Congress due to lack of presence of any stronger third force.