Uttar Pradesh election results: With sweep in Uttar Pradesh, PM Modi may have also won the 2019 Lok Sabha polls
NEW DELHI: Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself led the election campaign for Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh where it has made a huge sweep, the victory belongs to him. He has emerged as the tallest leader in the country whose popularity has not waned but increased even three years after winning the Lok Sabha elections in 2014.
After the Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll results, many have started saying that PM Modi's win in the next Lok Sabha elections is certain now. Nothing can stop PM Modi given the drubbing regional parties and the Congress have received in the Uttar Pradesh elections which were already being called semi-final for the next Lok Sabha elections.
Ever since the Congress winning only 44 seats in the last Lok Sabha elections, it has been downhill for the party. The Assembly election results can said to be another step in PM Modi's campaign for a Congress-mukt Bharat.
The poor show by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh can be interpreted as PM Modi's successful strike at the existing vote banks of the regional parties, something he was unable to accomplish in Bihar Assembly elections in 2015 where a grand alliance of JD(U), RJD and the Congress rode to victory on traditional caste and religious equations.
The BJP's attempt to cobble up a voter base of non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits against Samajwadi Party's Yadav vote bank and Bahujan Samajwadi Party's Jatav vote bank seemed to have worked. This portends trouble for regional parties because now the BJP will feel confidant to apply its new formula in other states too where it is in opposition.
PM Modi's charisma is based on an image of a pro-poor, nationalist, pro-lower caste and brutally strong leader. He has successfully constructed this image for himself over time and relayed it convincingly to the masses with his sudden game-changing steps such as demonetisation and his superb rhetoric.
After the BJP's Uttar Pardesh sweep, most people are convinced there will be little challenge to PM Modi in the next Lok Sabha election in 2019.
After the Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll results, many have started saying that PM Modi's win in the next Lok Sabha elections is certain now. Nothing can stop PM Modi given the drubbing regional parties and the Congress have received in the Uttar Pradesh elections which were already being called semi-final for the next Lok Sabha elections.
Ever since the Congress winning only 44 seats in the last Lok Sabha elections, it has been downhill for the party. The Assembly election results can said to be another step in PM Modi's campaign for a Congress-mukt Bharat.
The poor show by the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh can be interpreted as PM Modi's successful strike at the existing vote banks of the regional parties, something he was unable to accomplish in Bihar Assembly elections in 2015 where a grand alliance of JD(U), RJD and the Congress rode to victory on traditional caste and religious equations.
The BJP's attempt to cobble up a voter base of non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits against Samajwadi Party's Yadav vote bank and Bahujan Samajwadi Party's Jatav vote bank seemed to have worked. This portends trouble for regional parties because now the BJP will feel confidant to apply its new formula in other states too where it is in opposition.
PM Modi's charisma is based on an image of a pro-poor, nationalist, pro-lower caste and brutally strong leader. He has successfully constructed this image for himself over time and relayed it convincingly to the masses with his sudden game-changing steps such as demonetisation and his superb rhetoric.
After the BJP's Uttar Pardesh sweep, most people are convinced there will be little challenge to PM Modi in the next Lok Sabha election in 2019.
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