Congress Wins Karnataka: What Is Next On Cards For Bajrang Dal?

A resurgent Congress has ousted BJP from the ability hall in Karnataka. The Congress not solely secured an authoritative majority within the state with over 130 seats in its kitty, but it surely additionally pushed again BJP limiting it to simply round 65 seats. While the election win is a much-needed booster shot for the Congress forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, this defeat will push the BJP again to the drafting board the place it is not going to solely introspect its losses however will look to redraw its technique given the following meeting and parliamentary elections. 

Bajrang Dal Vs Bajrang Bali Row

The Karnataka election marketing campaign took a wierd flip when the Congress celebration promised to ban organisations like Popular Front of India and Bajrang Dal. Unexpectedly, the BJP gave a twist to the Congress promised and claimed that the grand outdated celebration will lock up Bajrang Bali within the state. Prime Minister Narendra Modi made it one of many key ballot planks and Jai Bajrang Bali chants echoed his rallies. BJP leaders and Bajrang Dal staff even held a recital of Hanuman Chalisa in public areas in protest towards Congress. Bajrang Dal even burnt the Congress manifesto in protest towards the celebration. BJP leaders termed the Bajrang Dal a nationalist organisation. To counter the BJP narrative, Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar promised that if the celebration is voted to energy, it would develop Hanuman temples throughout the state.

What’s Is Future Of Bajrang Dal?

While the Bajrang Dal is understood for its far-right actions, the organisation stays on the centre of controversies. Almost a three-decade-old organisation, Bajrang Dal works on small points like towards the growing affect of Christians, renovation of non secular locations and many others, cow safety and forceful conversions. According to consultants, whereas many Bajrang Dal staff have been booked prior to now in several circumstances, with Congress in energy, the organisation must take each step very fastidiously. Any criticism towards Bajrang Dal might snowball into a bigger subject permitting Congress to suppress the organisation, which has been in contrast with the PFI prior to now. Since the ban was part of the manifesto, Congress might convey laws for a similar as properly. However, even when the Congress bans the Bajrang Dal, will probably be solely relevant in Karnataka till different states reciprocate the ban choice. 

An Issue For Lok Sabha Election?

Despite the BJP making an enormous subject out of the Bajrang Dal subject, the Congress has secured an nearly landslide victory in Karnataka. This might power the grand outdated celebration to make this ban subject a nationwide ballot plank within the subsequent 12 months’s Lok Sabha polls. 

Since the Bajrang Dal is dealing with no menace to its existence, it would proceed to work as earlier. However, it now faces elevated scrutiny by the hands of Congress and different opposition-ruled states and must work throughout the ambit of the regulation.