The outcome of the Assembly polls in five states has thrown up important lessons for all major political parties as they head for the general election
All this has emboldened BSP chief Mayawati to strike a harder bargain with its allies in seat adjustment talks for the parliamentary elections coming up next year. She has already been projected as the prime ministerial candidate by Left Front leaders Prakash Karat and AB Bardhan. And now with TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu and AIADMK president J Jayalalitha tying up with the Left parties, the ground is ready for the proposed Third Front.
The BSP’s emergence has clearly underlined the fact that the General Elections won’t
be a two-horse race; and if Mayawati throws her lot behind the comrades, this Third Front could well be in a position to take a shot at power as well.
Another revelation from the just concluded Assembly elections is that a potion of good governance, development, rapport with the electorate and a cohesive party campaign makes a winning mix that is quite capable of negating the anti-incumbency factor.
Indeed, it was this same concoction that helped Sheila Dixit in Delhi, Shivraj Singh Chauhan in Madhya Pradesh and Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh. Is Vasundhara Raje listening? If she failed to retain the gaddi in Rajasthan despite massive development during her tenure and her impressive electorate-connect, it was primarily because she neglected her own party. The state party chief Om Mathur admitted as much when he told TSI that there was a “communication gap” between the party and the government till he took over in January. While the party sought to keep her reined in, Vasundhara wanted a free hand. This much was evident in her opposition to RSS pracharak (preacher) Mathur’s appointment as state BJP president in place of her own favourite Mahesh Sharma. Relations between the party and the government had deteriorated to the extent that officials of a public relations company hired to oversee the BJP’s campaign acted as messenger between Mathur and Vasundhara. The lack of consensus saw fierce arguments during candidate selection and propping up of 75 rebels against the party’s official nominees. The BSP factor and the BJP’s anti-terror rhetoric post-Mumbai attacks too failed to salvage Vasundhara’s fortunes.....Continue
The BSP’s emergence has clearly underlined the fact that the General Elections won’t
be a two-horse race; and if Mayawati throws her lot behind the comrades, this Third Front could well be in a position to take a shot at power as well.Another revelation from the just concluded Assembly elections is that a potion of good governance, development, rapport with the electorate and a cohesive party campaign makes a winning mix that is quite capable of negating the anti-incumbency factor.
Indeed, it was this same concoction that helped Sheila Dixit in Delhi, Shivraj Singh Chauhan in Madhya Pradesh and Raman Singh in Chhattisgarh. Is Vasundhara Raje listening? If she failed to retain the gaddi in Rajasthan despite massive development during her tenure and her impressive electorate-connect, it was primarily because she neglected her own party. The state party chief Om Mathur admitted as much when he told TSI that there was a “communication gap” between the party and the government till he took over in January. While the party sought to keep her reined in, Vasundhara wanted a free hand. This much was evident in her opposition to RSS pracharak (preacher) Mathur’s appointment as state BJP president in place of her own favourite Mahesh Sharma. Relations between the party and the government had deteriorated to the extent that officials of a public relations company hired to oversee the BJP’s campaign acted as messenger between Mathur and Vasundhara. The lack of consensus saw fierce arguments during candidate selection and propping up of 75 rebels against the party’s official nominees. The BSP factor and the BJP’s anti-terror rhetoric post-Mumbai attacks too failed to salvage Vasundhara’s fortunes.....Continue
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