Current Prime Minister and BJP stalwart Narendra Damodardas Modi has urged his social gathering and leaders to work to safe not less than 400 seats for the National Democratic Alliance. Eight months in the past, when the opposition events joined palms to type the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), there have been talks about whether or not the NDA might face up to the mixed onslaught of the opposition or not. However, the BJP remained undeterred and gave the slogan of Mission 400. In the phrases of political strategist Prashant Kishor, this shifted the narrative from ‘whether or not the BJP will win or not’ to ‘whether or not the BJP will get 400 seats or not’. So, let’s check out some key components utilizing which the BJP is making an attempt to win 400 Lok Sabha seats this election:
Alliance Formation
To counter the united may of the INDIA bloc, the BJP moved swiftly to not solely dent the opposition bloc but in addition woo different like-minded regional events. The Narendra Modi authorities proclaims Bharat Ratna for 2 key personalities – Karpoori Thakur and Chaudhary Charan Singh. While the best honour to Thakur noticed the BJP regaining Nitish Kumar-led JDU within the NDA fold, Bharat Ratna to Chaudhary Charan Singh introduced Jayant Chaudhary’s RLD into the ruling alliance. This bolstered the BJP’s ballot prospects in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. On the opposite hand, the BJP leaders are attempting to convey Naveen Patnaik’s BJD onboard in Odisha regardless of alliance talks hitting a roadblock. In a lift for the NDA in southern India, the JDS has joined palms with the BJP in Karnataka and TDP-Jana Sena in Andhra Pradesh. Â
Breaking Opposition Unity
The BJP has not solely managed to interrupt the opposition alliance but in addition its key leaders. From Gujarat to Bengal, a number of key leaders have joined the saffron brigade forward of the Lok Sabha elections. In Gujarat, senior Congress leaders like Arjun Modhwadia and Ambarish Der joined the BJP whereas in Bengal, Tapas Roy left the ruling TMC for the BJP. Modhwadia and Der will additional increase the BJP’s prospects in Gujarat whereas Roy will dent TMC in areas like Kolkata North and Damdam in Bengal.Â
Bet On Winners
The BJP has launched its first candidate listing for the polls and it reveals that whereas social gathering is brushing apart leaders who gave controversial statements in addition to betting on successful faces. The social gathering fielded a lot of the winners of the 2019 polls as soon as once more this time thus indicating that it is not prepared to take dangers in seats the place it has MPs who gained from the seat greater than as soon as. The BJP can be fielding leaders who not too long ago joined the social gathering after severing ties with the opposition and Ritesh Pandey from Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar is an instance of that.Â
Besides these components, the BJP is repeatedly taking welfare schemes of the Narendra Modi authorities to the general public. Even the BJP’s ballot marketing campaign is very weaved across the welfare schemes like Ujjwala, Ayushman Bharat, free bathrooms, pucca homes and extra.
