Will BJP do a Gujarat in MP forward of 2023 polls? state get together leaders on tenterhooks
9 min readBy PTI
BHOPAL: Gujarat Assembly ballot outcome could have thrilled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however a piece of get together MLAs and leaders in Madhya Pradesh is fearing a replication right here of the technique within the adjoining state, the place your entire cabinet was changed final yr and a number of other sitting MLAs have been denied ticket.
Though completely different voices are rising from inside the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh over the problem, a number of saffron get together MLAs, together with senior leaders, appeared fearful a couple of doable repeat of the “Gujarat formula” to beat anti-incumbency within the central state, the place Assembly elections are due in end-2023.
The BJP has been in energy in Madhya Pradesh for nearly 20 years.
“We need to plough fields to prepare land for agriculture and remove rancid roots before sowing new seeds, which we can term as the Gujarat formula in existing political set-up,” mentioned an MP BJP functionary on situation of anonymity when requested about hypothesis over a Gujarat-like shake-up in Madhya Pradesh.
When queried by reporters over the problem not too long ago, BJP nationwide normal secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, with out elaborating on the “Gujarat formula”, mentioned, “Not only Madhya Pradesh, it will be implemented in the entire country.”
“Gujarat has become an ideal state. The vote share in favour of the BJP has gone up (party garnered more than 50 per cent vote share in Gujarat) even after winning elections seven times. This has happened (in a state) for the first time after independence,” he mentioned.
Vijayvargiya, who had been get together answerable for West Bengal, mentioned Communists dominated the japanese state for a very long time (for 34 years), however their vote share stored reducing in each election.
“On the contrary, the BJP’s vote share grew to 54 per cent (in Gujarat) from 42 per cent in 1995 (when the party came to power). Those who abuse (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi should learn from his work and politics,” he mentioned.
Asked why the BJP couldn’t retain energy in Himachal Pradesh, the place the election outcome was introduced together with that of Gujarat on December 8, Vijayvargiya mentioned within the hill state, the ruling get together adjustments each 5 years.
In the just-concluded Assembly polls, the Congress got here to energy in Himachal Pradesh. In Gujarat, the BJP changed its then-chief minister Vijay Rupani and his total set of ministers in September final yr.
A brand new Council of Ministers with Bhupendra Patel as CM was sworn-in only a yr earlier than the Assembly polls in Gujarat.
Besides, within the run-up to elections in December, the BJP had changed 45 sitting MLAs with new faces, of whom all however two gained.
After making these large-scale adjustments, the BJP posted a record-breaking victory in Gujarat, the place it bagged 156 seats within the 182-member House and gained Assembly elections for the seventh time in a row.
Asked about BJP’s Gujarat ballot technique, Yashpal Sisodiya, a three-time get together legislator from Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, informed PTI that adjustments have to happen as and when required.
“A lot depends on local circumstances and opinion of leaders sitting in the government and the organisation,” Sisodiya mentioned.
On implementation of the profitable Gujarat technique in Madhya Pradesh, BJP legislator from Bhopal’s Huzur seat, Rameshwar Sharma, mentioned it was as much as the get together management to take a name on this regard.
“Whatever decision is taken by the BJP’s national and state leadership, it will be in the interest of the party and people at large,” Sharma mentioned.
However, an MLA from the saffron get together brazenly sought a whole overhaul of the federal government in Madhya Pradesh like in Gujarat with only a yr to go for Assembly polls.
After the Gujarat election outcome was introduced, the BJP MLA from Maihar, Narayan Tripathi, had shot off a letter to get together president J P Nadda in search of a whole shake-up of the organisational-governance construction in MP to keep at bay anti-incumbency forward of polls.
Tripathi, who efficiently contested elections on Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) tickets earlier, mentioned the BJP should win polls in MP and hoped his request can be accepted by the central management.
Senior journalist Girija Shankar, a eager political observer, mentioned the time period ‘Gujarat formulation’ has been coined by the media.
“The BJP won three consecutive terms in office in Madhya Pradesh (2003, 2008, 2013) because the Congress was not contesting polls actively. And when the Congress fought the elections aggressively, it defeated the BJP in 2018,” he identified.
Shankar mentioned there was nothing new within the BJP’s Gujarat technique on deciding on candidates as most political events deny tickets to almost 30 per cent of their sitting lawmakers, if one goes by ballot knowledge submit Independence.
The solely new factor in Gujarat was that the BJP changed your entire cabinet, together with the CM, a yr forward of elections, however this can’t be linked to the saffron outfit’s record-breaking victory within the dwelling state of PM Modi, he mentioned.
Shankar believes the Gujarat victory got here largely because of Modi’s private and emotional join with the individuals of the state, the place he mentioned, the Congress didn’t put up a spirited combat and just about gave a walkover to the ruling get together.
“If the Congress contests the Madhya Pradesh elections the way it fought in Gujarat, the BJP can easily win here,” he noticed.
After 15 years in energy, the BJP misplaced the 2018 Assembly polls in MP, paving the best way for the Congress to kind a authorities underneath the management of Kamal Nath with the assistance of elected independents, MLAs from the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
However, a rebel by almost two dozen Congress MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia, a Union minister who’s now within the BJP, led to the collapse of the Nath authorities in March 2020.
The BJP subsequently fashioned its authorities underneath the management of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
In the 230-member MP Assembly, the BJP has 127 members and the Congress 96.
BHOPAL: Gujarat Assembly ballot outcome could have thrilled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), however a piece of get together MLAs and leaders in Madhya Pradesh is fearing a replication right here of the technique within the adjoining state, the place your entire cabinet was changed final yr and a number of other sitting MLAs have been denied ticket.
Though completely different voices are rising from inside the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh over the problem, a number of saffron get together MLAs, together with senior leaders, appeared fearful a couple of doable repeat of the “Gujarat formula” to beat anti-incumbency within the central state, the place Assembly elections are due in end-2023.
The BJP has been in energy in Madhya Pradesh for nearly 20 years.
“We need to plough fields to prepare land for agriculture and remove rancid roots before sowing new seeds, which we can term as the Gujarat formula in existing political set-up,” mentioned an MP BJP functionary on situation of anonymity when requested about hypothesis over a Gujarat-like shake-up in Madhya Pradesh.
When queried by reporters over the problem not too long ago, BJP nationwide normal secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, with out elaborating on the “Gujarat formula”, mentioned, “Not only Madhya Pradesh, it will be implemented in the entire country.”
“Gujarat has become an ideal state. The vote share in favour of the BJP has gone up (party garnered more than 50 per cent vote share in Gujarat) even after winning elections seven times. This has happened (in a state) for the first time after independence,” he mentioned.
Vijayvargiya, who had been get together answerable for West Bengal, mentioned Communists dominated the japanese state for a very long time (for 34 years), however their vote share stored reducing in each election.
“On the contrary, the BJP’s vote share grew to 54 per cent (in Gujarat) from 42 per cent in 1995 (when the party came to power). Those who abuse (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi should learn from his work and politics,” he mentioned.
Asked why the BJP couldn’t retain energy in Himachal Pradesh, the place the election outcome was introduced together with that of Gujarat on December 8, Vijayvargiya mentioned within the hill state, the ruling get together adjustments each 5 years.
In the just-concluded Assembly polls, the Congress got here to energy in Himachal Pradesh. In Gujarat, the BJP changed its then-chief minister Vijay Rupani and his total set of ministers in September final yr.
A brand new Council of Ministers with Bhupendra Patel as CM was sworn-in only a yr earlier than the Assembly polls in Gujarat.
Besides, within the run-up to elections in December, the BJP had changed 45 sitting MLAs with new faces, of whom all however two gained.
After making these large-scale adjustments, the BJP posted a record-breaking victory in Gujarat, the place it bagged 156 seats within the 182-member House and gained Assembly elections for the seventh time in a row.
Asked about BJP’s Gujarat ballot technique, Yashpal Sisodiya, a three-time get together legislator from Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, informed PTI that adjustments have to happen as and when required.
“A lot depends on local circumstances and opinion of leaders sitting in the government and the organisation,” Sisodiya mentioned.
On implementation of the profitable Gujarat technique in Madhya Pradesh, BJP legislator from Bhopal’s Huzur seat, Rameshwar Sharma, mentioned it was as much as the get together management to take a name on this regard.
“Whatever decision is taken by the BJP’s national and state leadership, it will be in the interest of the party and people at large,” Sharma mentioned.
However, an MLA from the saffron get together brazenly sought a whole overhaul of the federal government in Madhya Pradesh like in Gujarat with only a yr to go for Assembly polls.
After the Gujarat election outcome was introduced, the BJP MLA from Maihar, Narayan Tripathi, had shot off a letter to get together president J P Nadda in search of a whole shake-up of the organisational-governance construction in MP to keep at bay anti-incumbency forward of polls.
Tripathi, who efficiently contested elections on Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) tickets earlier, mentioned the BJP should win polls in MP and hoped his request can be accepted by the central management.
Senior journalist Girija Shankar, a eager political observer, mentioned the time period ‘Gujarat formulation’ has been coined by the media.
“The BJP won three consecutive terms in office in Madhya Pradesh (2003, 2008, 2013) because the Congress was not contesting polls actively. And when the Congress fought the elections aggressively, it defeated the BJP in 2018,” he identified.
Shankar mentioned there was nothing new within the BJP’s Gujarat technique on deciding on candidates as most political events deny tickets to almost 30 per cent of their sitting lawmakers, if one goes by ballot knowledge submit Independence.
The solely new factor in Gujarat was that the BJP changed your entire cabinet, together with the CM, a yr forward of elections, however this can’t be linked to the saffron outfit’s record-breaking victory within the dwelling state of PM Modi, he mentioned.
Shankar believes the Gujarat victory got here largely because of Modi’s private and emotional join with the individuals of the state, the place he mentioned, the Congress didn’t put up a spirited combat and just about gave a walkover to the ruling get together.
“If the Congress contests the Madhya Pradesh elections the way it fought in Gujarat, the BJP can easily win here,” he noticed.
After 15 years in energy, the BJP misplaced the 2018 Assembly polls in MP, paving the best way for the Congress to kind a authorities underneath the management of Kamal Nath with the assistance of elected independents, MLAs from the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party.
However, a rebel by almost two dozen Congress MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia, a Union minister who’s now within the BJP, led to the collapse of the Nath authorities in March 2020.
The BJP subsequently fashioned its authorities underneath the management of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
In the 230-member MP Assembly, the BJP has 127 members and the Congress 96.
