Trumpet lost its sound
Looks like the royal blue fox is losing its outer colour and coming back onto its skin shade. Some leaders within BJP have begun to speak about the bad performance of the party and failure of Amit Shah and Modi, in the elections held across five states.
Now all those who thought the fake royal blue fox was an original one and that itself was the royal leader for having spoken against the administrational failure of other parties, been stunned into silence now.
BJP is in a fix whether the party should face the election in the leadership of Modi or not. If the leadership changes, it would mean the party conceded that the performance was bad in the last term. If Modi is continued as the leader, BJP isn't too sure that it can garner votes like last time. At a time like this, union minister Nitin Gadkari has voiced out his opinion rather loudly.
So far, Amit Shah and Narendra Modi took the credit of all successes through the elections in other states. Media would go gaga over the ‘Chanakya Neeti’ adapted by Amit Shah.
It would be projected as though people voted for the best administration that Modi has been giving to the people of this country. Modi and Amit Shah had proactively campaigned in all the five states that voted recently, like they'd do with all other elections. Campaign strategy was designed keeping in mind the results of these states would have an impact on the upcoming lok sabha elections next year.
But then BJP failed miserably in all the states. Amit Shah and Modi who took credit for every victory, have maintained strategic silence this time and have conveniently escaped the responsibility of owning it up. This should have been an occasion for Modi to at least reflect on the lacunae of administrational failures to take stock for the future. Instead of that, Modi is still continuing to lamely blame Nehru for the situation India is in, today and even for his own failures. And instead of accepting demonetisation as a grand failure, he is trying to impose it as a mandatory success through his speeches. Nehru is the only answer Modi has, if one questions him about inflation, economic deficit, increased oil prices, unemployment and massive shutdown of co industries both small and big scale in rural as well as urban areas.
They still don't seem to understand the mammoth statues of Patel or Shivaji or Ram are not any answer to the real time problems people are facing. And it is during this time that Gadkari has said the party chiefs must take the responsibility of failure in performance too.
“If I were to be the party president, and my party didn't do well in the elections I'd take full responsibility of the results” he said in a meeting going over the performance of the party in five state elections, indirectly indicating Amit Shah is responsible for the dismal show. These words are major embarrassment for Amit Shah and Modi too.
This simply means Gadkari is not too happy with eh leadership of Modi and Shah. However, for the first time in recent days, BJP is trying to emerge from the mindset that Modi is inevitable for the party. Many BJP leaders are feeling stifled that they cannot raise their concerns against Modi and Shah duo. If things continue like this, they will soon join Gadkari in his stance. The workers and activists at base level aren't too happy with Shah and Modi that they are humiliating the leaders who struggled to build the party base. All these issues will definitely plague the party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Dissidence against Modi and Shah has now found space in NDA too. Many allies want another leader apart from Modi to lead the equation. The shadows of Modi's misrule is definitely going to cast its shadow on the next polls.
Since Modi's charisma is waning, the allies are now negotiating to get more seats for themselves. The misunderstanding between Shiv Sena and BJP in Maharashtra makes one wonder whether they'll still go to elections as allies. Sena has always had its dislike towards Modi and now the party is using the dismal results of states to grind the axe further on the PM.
Sena wants the change of guard within BJP. As of now, Gadkari is in consideration as an alternative candidate for Modi. Even Rajnath Singh can make for a good PM with his experience in politics and parliament. Gadkari has charges of corruption on him and this had forced him to step down from big responsibility of being national president within BJP.
Now if he has to be projected as the PM candidate, all those allegations will resurface too. Having been cornered by the failures, Modi has reached the brink of his strategy. As a result he will fall back on the old ways of arresting terror suspects by the NIA.
The agency will reveal more suspects or make-believe terror plots to show assassination attempts on Modi. When the elections come close, we may witness explosions here and there. Even this time, looks like Modi has to resort on attempts on life or terror plot etc to win elections.
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Wayanad LS bypoll: Priyanka crosses lead achieved by Rahul in 2024 Lok Sabha polls
Wayanad (Kerala) (PTI): Top Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was on Saturday comfortably cruising towards her maiden electoral win from Wayanad in Kerala, as she surpassed the lead achieved by her brother Rahul Gandhi in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls earlier this year with party leaders and ally IUML predicting a big win for her amid the counting trends.
The Congress-led UDF's candidate from this hill constituency, Priyanka, extended her lead by over 3.8 lakh votes after five hours of counting of the ballots in the Wayanad Lok Sabha bypoll, according to the Election Commission.
Reacting to the lead achieved by Priyanka, Congress' ally Indian Union Muslim League and Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said she would get more votes than her brother Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha polls in April this year and will win by a record margin.
"An amazing first trend on counting day is the massive early lead for our leader @priyankagandhi ji in Wayanad, Kerala, by-election. People of Wayanad are surely going to record in victory margins today and Priyanka ji will make Parliamentary debut with a grand win," Reddy said in a post on 'X'.
IUML supremo Panakkad Sadiq Ali Shihab Thangal said that going by the trends, Priyanka will get more votes than what Rahul got and the majority she achieves would also be higher than that of her brother.
A similar view was expressed by IUML's national general secretary P K Kunhalikutty.
On the other hand, BJP leader Anil K Antony, earlier in the day, had claimed that though Priyanka has achieved a good lead, her victory margin would be less than what Rahul got in the 2024 and 2019 LS polls in the hill constituency.
According to the latest EC figures, Priyanka had a lead of 3,82,975 with 5,78,526 votes. LDF's Sathyan Mokeri was behind her with 1,95,551 votes and NDA's Navya Haridas was in the third spot with 1,04,947 votes.
Rahul had got 6,47,445 votes and won by a margin of 3,64,422 votes against his nearest rival, CPI's Annie Raja, in the LS polls this year. In 2019, he had got 7,06,367 votes and had won by a margin of 4,31,770 votes.
After winning from Rae Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh as well, in this year's polls, Rahul vacated the Wayanad seat, and the party nominated his sister Priyanka, paving the way for her electoral debut.
The bypoll turnout in Wayanad, which has over 14 lakh registered voters, was around 65 per cent, a decline from the close to 74 per cent in the LS polls held in April this year and much lower than the over 80 per cent turnout in the hill constituency in the 2019 general elections.
The counting of votes commenced at 8 am with postal ballots being taken up first.
The strong rooms, where the EVMs were kept, were opened more than an hour before counting began.
The bypoll for the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat was held on November 13.
Of the 16 candidates who contested, the main contenders are Priyanka, ruling CPI(M)-led LDF's Sathyan Mokeri, a political veteran, and BJP-headed NDA's Navya Haridas.
