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Modi magic? Where is it?
The Prime Minister campaigned hard in these Assembly elections. Like a gambler who stakes all winnings for further gains, Narendra Modi appears to be using up his political capital in election campaigns rather than in governance.
The Prime Minister campaigned hard in these Assembly elections. Like a gambler who stakes all winnings for further gains, Narendra Modi appears to be using up his political capital in election campaigns rather than in governance. In fact, he is facing a lot of flak for his absence from the Parliament on this account. He should be depressed at neither being able to get crucial Bills passed in the Parliament nor succeeding in getting an absolute majority in Jharkhand or getting a reason to smile in Kashmir.
The echo of the voters' voice of May 2014 is fainter and receding as proven by the assembly elections in Jharkhand and Jammu and Kashmir.
When you compare the Lok Sabha results to today's, the BJP has little to rejoice. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had won 60 of the 81 Assembly segments of Jharkhand. It is now struggling to reach the half-way mark. What appeared to be the BJP's Spring Movement of May 2014 has turned into a frozen winter.
The BJP's campaign in Jammu and Kashmir was divisive and confused. From tying up with former separatist Sajjad Lone to talking about a Hindu Chief Minister, from Ram Madhav's unwavering stand on abrogating Article 370 to Hina Bhat's threat of taking to the gun if Article 370 was disturbed, both the good and the bad cops of BJP took their roles rather seriously with contradictory stands on key issues.
Had the BJP won a single seat in the Valley, Dr Jekyll could have celebrated. The Congress winning seats in all three regions of the state proves that the party seems to be retaining 13 of its 17 seats. Those who are surprised that the Congress has borne no impact of Afzal Guru's hanging which happened under the UPA regime need to have a better understanding of the people of Kashmir - an understanding not tainted by radical elements on both sides of the border.
Despite references to Article 370, conversions, a Hindu Chief Minister, and above all the so called Modi-magic and Amit Shah's management skills, the BJP failed to sweep the Jammu region, which was low-hanging fruit given the Hindu majority.
By: Pawan Khera
