A BJP MP on Tuesday held Prime Minister Narendra Modi responsible for NDA’s poor show in the Bihar assembly elections.
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Analysts and economists said that the Bihar election was a wake-up call for the BJP-led government to focus more on reforms and economic development rather than a Hindu agenda.
Gogoi also took a dig at the Hindutva ideology of the BJP and said: “Whatever tactics the BJP is going to resort to, they are not going to succeed unless they come out from the grip of the RSS.
“A principal reason for the latest defeat is the way the party has been emasculated in the a year ago”.
He ruled out the possibility of Shah quitting his post following the debacle.
Lalu Prasad, Chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal, said: “All the people of Bihar – the backward and the lower caste – united to thwart an attempt by Modi to win”. “With continued opposition, the Modi government will likely continue to try and pass legislation via ad hoc political deals, and if that does not work it may continue to resort to implementation of reforms at the state level”, says Thomas Rookmaaker, Director for Asia-Pacific Sovereigns at Fitch Ratings.
Jaitley said his party respects the people’s mandate in Bihar and promised to play the role of a constructive opposition to enable the new government fulfil people’s aspirations.
The hefty score of 178 seats in the Bihar 243-member assembly for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s grand alliance demolished virtually all poll predictions, including the highly acclaimed NDTV.
Sena said that the message in the results is that humility is not an ornament used for show-off, but a self-protection tool. “But ‘jhanjhat”, Mr Prasad said, was there for the Modi government at the Centre as ” I will soon launch a nation- wide campaign against fascist and communal forces” from Varansai, the Lok Sabha constituency of the Prime Minister.
The BJP has suffered a stark reversal in fortunes in comparison to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. All non-BJP parties, including the Congress, AIUDF, AGP, BPF and Gana Mukti Sangram should have adjustment, he added.
“We don’t accept that”, he told a questioner when it was pointed out that a few party leaders and allies have suggested that his remarks were a major reason for the defeat. So this loss does not reflect whatever the Modi government is doing.
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“Thereafter, the party had success in assembly elections of Jharkhand, Haryana, Maharashtra and Jammu and Kashmir”. They also targeted party leadership for saying that everyone is responsible for party’s defeat. “They should continue at a rapid pace”, Jaitley said in an interview with ET Now TV network. Modi has relied more on his narrow nationalism and personally took part in about 30 election rallies in Bihar to woo voters in the name of religion. On the question of a possible tie-up between RJD and the ruling Samajwadi Party in the 2017 UP assembly elections, Shivpal Yadav said that the “matter rests with the top leadership”.
