Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary and LJP (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan.
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After the declaration of Lok Sabha election outcomes on June 4, political events in Bihar have been introspecting about their efficiency. The State unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) held a assessment assembly in Patna on June 13 whereas ally Janata Dal (United) referred to as a gathering of its nationwide government in Delhi on June 29. The Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) is more likely to organise a two-day assessment assembly on June 20-21 in Patna by which get together chief Lalu Prasad is more likely to take part.
The BJP had contested on 17 seats in Bihar underneath the National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) seat-sharing association with JD(U) and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) and received 12 of them. It was the primary to carry a assessment assembly to debate choice of candidates, caste issue, alleged negligence of get together employees and leaders on the native stage, and stories of complacency amongst some candidates, which contributed to the get together’s “below-par” efficiency. In 2019, the BJP had received all 17 seats it contested and this time, the get together leaders have been claiming that the NDA would bag all 40 Lok Sabha seats within the State. However, the BJP not solely acquired fewer seats however a decrease vote share as properly, which declined from 24.5% to twenty.52%. In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, it acquired 29.40% of the votes.
State BJP leaders together with Deputy Chief Ministers Samrat Choudhary and Vijay Kumar Singh, organisational normal secretary Bhikhu Bhai Dalsania, and others have been current. “We mulled over our poor performance and decline in vote share. A report of the meeting will be submitted soon to the party’s Bihar in-charge Vinod Tawde,” a senior State BJP functionary advised The Hindu preferring anonymity.
Party sources mentioned suggestions has been sought from sales space and block-level get together employees, district presidents, Lok Sabha constituency in-charges and conveners broadly on three facets: what labored of their favour, what went improper, and the way.
The NDA had carried out higher in north Bihar than south Bihar as out of 21 seats in Champaran, Mithila, Tirhut, and Seemanchal (border) areas, the NDA received 18 barring Katihar, Purnia and Kishanganj. However, out of 10 seats in south Bihar, it misplaced seven – Aurangabad, Sasaram, Karakat, Buxar, Ara, Jehanabad, and Patliputra. In 2019, the BJP had received 5 of the seven.
The BJP’s alliance associate JD(U) which had carried out properly regardless of stories suggesting that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was battling a wave of unpopularity following his many political flip-flops, will even assessment its election efficiency at a gathering of the get together’s nationwide government members in Delhi on June 29. The JD(U) received 12 seats, the identical because the BJP, out of 16 it contested. The vote share of JD(U) too dipped from 22.3% in 2019 to 18.52% in 2024. Party president Mr. Kumar will likely be current on the assembly together with leaders who not too long ago joined Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet as Ministers – Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh and Ramnath Thakur.
The Opposition RJD too is more likely to maintain a two-day assessment assembly on June 20 and 21 by which Mr. Prasad and his youthful son and political inheritor Tejashwi Yadav will likely be current. The RJD received solely 4 out of 23 seats it contested underneath the Mahagathbandhan alliance with the Congress, Vikashil Insaan Party, and three Left events. Its vote share, although, was the very best within the State with 22.14% – a considerable soar from 15.7% in 2019.
Source: www.thehindu.com
