Bengaluru: Weighed down by anti-incumbency, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) closely banked on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s private attraction to allow it to sail by means of within the Assembly elections however it was to not be. Modi addressed as many as 19 conferences and held six roadshows in an aggressive marketing campaign to shore up the social gathering’s prospects within the May 10 Assembly elections.
In addition to BJP President J P Nadda, a number of of the social gathering’s prime weapons together with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had campaigned within the state.
The BJP had gained 104 seats within the earlier elections in 2018 however this time might handle solely 65.
Asked whether or not the Modi and Shah issue didn’t work on this election, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai stated there are numerous components for this final result and one can talk about it after an intensive evaluation.
Bommai stated the Congress’ “much organised” election technique may need been one of many main causes for its win.
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Some social gathering leaders admitted in non-public {that a} combative Congress was forward within the “narratives front”, noting that it had relentlessly focused the Bommai authorities on corruption points months earlier than the elections.
The BJP didn’t counter the Congress allegations of corruption successfully, one other BJP chief stated.
“A large number of women in rural areas seem to have voted for the Congress as price rise was an issue, particularly the cooking gas prices,” a BJP functionary stated.
Another BJP chief stated the social gathering might have dealt with the ticket distribution technique higher. The social gathering denied tickets to former chief minister Jagadish Shettar and former deputy chief minister Laxman Savadi, each of whom then left the social gathering and joined the Congress.
The pre-poll ‘ensures’ introduced by the Congress promising free energy, rice, and unemployment doles additionally tilted a big part of the voters in the direction of the Congress, BJP sources stated.
Another BJP chief stated the social gathering gave tickets to 75 new faces to fight anti-incumbency however a few of them have been tainted and didn’t have a clear picture.
