Five days before the BJP led NDA government at the centre completes two years in power, PM Modi began consultations for an overhaul which involve his senior cabinet ministers, the BJP organisation and even state governors. The final NRC could pave the way for deportation of the illegal immigrants, who entered Assam after 1971 – a key poll promise of the BJP in the state.
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The Sena said history is witness that one can not destroy the Congress even when it is down, citing the example of the four seat won by the Congress in the recent by-elections to Delhi’s municipal bodies.
“Their marginalization in West Bengal, a state they ruled for 34 years, is significant”.
Sources had earlier said that the results of the Assam Assembly Elections will also have an impact on the Cabinet reshuffle. “The BJP and its alliances worked hard for the objective”. “If there is no strong alternative, people will go to BJP in 2019”, he said.
The BJP in its “Assam Vision Document 2016-2025” has promised to protect the identity of the Assamese.
The party’s Rajya Sabha member alleged that the root cause of Congress’ “worst performance since Independence in Assam” is “false propaganda” by BJP and its allies. The CPI (M) has a vote percentage of 26.5% and the Congress in its defeat 23.7%. On the other hand, the BJPs vote share declined to 29.4 per cent from 36.5 per cent, Bora added. In the last Lok Sabha elections, the people defeated the Congress and in the current assembly elections also they have rejected the policies of the Congress. Their victory in Kerala is the result of an unpopular government losing an election and an opponent winning by default.
The results make it clear that none of the recent incidents – a sting operation or a financial scam or the collapse of a flyover in Kolkata – affected TMC’s fortunes. When asked about the reshuffle, Shah had parried the query saying a decision was yet to be taken.
Rahul Gandhi made no effort to suppress his glee when he strolled out to meet the media after BJP lost the Bihar election by a mile to the Nitish-Lalu-Congress grand alliance last November.
Ms Banerjee attributed her party’s repeated success in West Bengal to her ability to run a clean government. It fell from 36.5% in the Lok Sabha elections to 30.1%; in West Bengal it dropped from 16.8 percent to 10.3 percent; in Tamil Nadu from 5.56 percent to 2.7 percent.
The BJP’s lost opportunity: The party’s contested vote-share in West Bengal was 17 percent in 2014, compared with four percent in 2011, the jump attributed to the Modi wave. This time the Left has won.
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Two-party regime continues: It was a six-cornered fight in Tamil Nadu for the first time. According to him, the strategic alliance between the BJP, AGP and BPF in Assam highlighted the Congress’s historical blunder. When Sonia Gandhi took over as Congress president, the demoralised party was in power in just two large states.
