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The game plan flopped. It's as simple as that. The aim of promoting YA seems to be to create a secondary rung of national leaders to carry the torch ahead in say, a decade from now. While Modi cut his teeth administering Gujarat for nearly 3 terms, with results to show for, what has YA to his credit?

He should begin by confining himself to UP & focus on the administration there. For if current trends are anything to go by, he has his work cut out in UP, more so if BSP & SP decide to come together , which seems very likely going by the current situation, in which case BJP may well kiss their chances of getting past 200 seats in the LS goodbye.

YA is the only sensible state leader of BJP.
 
This reminds of-Choubayji chale Chhabayji ban nay, dubay bhi na rahe.
The vote share of BJP clearly shows that it is not anti-incumbency vote in MP & RJ but self inflicted damage. BJP will now have to clear Ram Temple to be relevant for 2019 otherwise we are back to khichdi govts at center.

I hope to god they make tte temple the central plank.
 
I agree that bringing YA out so quickly was a bad move. But the main agenda in UP is currently the mandir, so YA's participation is pretty important right now. So YA's past record is not as important as the mandir issue. If he fails, he is expendable.
There's no agenda. They're running desperate. They were in power for nearly 5 years at the centre & nearly 2 in the state. What prevented them from enacting an ordinance, assuming one could be enacted? The SC was & is in no hurry to pronounce their verdict. The HC, when it did pronounce its verdict a decade ago scarecely produced more than a ripple. It will become an issue only if there's an adverse verdict to building a temple. Otherwise, I don't see more than 5% ( it's actually less than that) of the voters, primarily among the upper castes and the BC's in urban & rural India affected , as of now , by no movement on the issue.
 
There's no agenda. They're running desperate. They were in power for nearly 5 years at the centre & nearly 2 in the state. What prevented them from enacting an ordinance, assuming one could be enacted? The SC was & is in no hurry to pronounce their verdict. The HC, when it did pronounce its verdict a decade ago scarecely produced more than a ripple. It will become an issue only if there's an adverse verdict to building a temple. Otherwise, I don't see more than 5% ( it's actually less than that) of the voters, primarily among the upper castes and the BC's in urban & rural India affected , as of now , by no movement on the issue.

Yes, the moment they build temple everyone will vote.
 
There's no agenda. They're running desperate. They were in power for nearly 5 years at the centre & nearly 2 in the state. What prevented them from enacting an ordinance, assuming one could be enacted? The SC was & is in no hurry to pronounce their verdict. The HC, when it did pronounce its verdict a decade ago scarecely produced more than a ripple. It will become an issue only if there's an adverse verdict to building a temple. Otherwise, I don't see more than 5% ( it's actually less than that) of the voters, primarily among the upper castes and the BC's in urban & rural India affected , as of now , by no movement on the issue.

SC stayed the HC order back in 2011. They have been conducting hearing after hearing for years now, even though the BJP has been pushing for finishing up for years now.

The BJP can't do anything without the SC's verdict.
 
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The thing about demo, the negative effects were felt more in the urban areas than in the rural areas. After the first 2 months, by Jan or so, rural areas had enough money, especially the Hindi belt, including UP. So there was no real negative impact beyond Feb once enough money was in circulation.

If you're referring to the UP elections, I think one can safely say now that the negatives against the SP & the father son family drama far outweighed the severe inconveniences caused by the Demonetization. And they were severe.

Since the BSP had a shot at power too, I think the electorate there thought its time the BJP were given a chance. Maladministration and other factors may have definitely played their part in making the BJP the party of choice.
These elections were mostly to do with punishing BJP, not a pro-Congress election. Congress failed miserably in Telangana and Mizoram, so it's not like people are really interested in what RaGa has to say. The SC/ST Act was devastating. BJP ironically lost both upper caste and lower caste votes at the same time for no fault of their own.

Every election is lost by the ruling party rather than won by the opposition.
Congress has only itself to blame in Telagana. After literally burning their party in AP, they let KCR & his TRS walk away with all the credit for the creation of Telangana. Not one to look a gift horse in its mouth, KCR did his best to consolidate his position with the many people friendly schemes there courtesy which he's been re elected there.

RaGa contrary to what his die hard supporters and the satraps have to say has had a negligible impact on the elections. But as he heads the organization, he is entitled to his share of bouquets just as when the organization slips he'd get his share of brickbats too.

In the final analysis, Modi was primarily elected to right the economy . He attempted to do that but having failed quickly moved to ameliorate the situation by better governance with fringe benefits like DBT's, Gas connections, girls education, swacch Bharat, etc.

Issues like rural distress, agricultural woes have been there and will continue to bedevil which ever administration is in power in India. Industrialisation of the economy is an imperative. That's what Modi promised and failed to deliver in spite of his best efforts. That more than anything else mattered in the end.
 
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The present vote share for these three states if translated into Lok sabha seats shows 10-1 for congress in CG but its just one seat difference in MP & RJ. In 2019 people will vote for Lok sabha, even a 2% swing for BJP will result in one sided win for BJP in MP & RJ.
 
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meanwhile let me give you a nightmare.....

Rahul: Will defeat BJP in 2019

LIVE! Rahul: Will defeat BJP in 2019, but don't want BJP-mukt Bharat - Rediff.com India News

Modi will win 2019 by the skin if his teeth. If Rahul gives way for someone else , Congress could see resurgence. Modi govt has not got a chance to face recession nor high crude. They have been really mediocre as expected with Jaitley at the helm of affairs. All they can do is change names of cities.