BJP In Punjab: Amidst The Challenge, Good Opportunity

BJP in Punjab, amidst the challenge, a good opportunity for the party in the state: There is a buzz within the party.

Has the agitation of peasant and labor organizations protesting against the agricultural laws in Punjab and mobilization of political parties against the central government pushed the BJP to the margins in the state’s politics.

This is a question that is an important part of the discussion going on today at every village in the state from the chaupal to the intersections of the city.

All the major political parties except the BJP are supporting openly agitated organizations. The gathering of protesters outside the houses of all top BJP leaders has taken a permanent form.

Large banners and hoardings are directing the attention of every passerby on the Amritsar-Delhi National Highway, directing party leaders to prohibit entry of party leaders into villages.

Such speculation in the midst of such a political climate that the BJP has lagged behind in this game is natural and reasonable. But in the midst of these speculations.

An important question also arises as to whether the Punjab BJP really has so much to lose or whether for the first time in the history of the state, such all-round opposition of the Kesariya Party made the BJP the center of discussion in the political corridors.

Have an opportunity to return

The situation is similar at the moment. In the same Punjab where brand Modi almost disappeared from the electoral discussions despite the intense saffron wave that swept across the country in 2014 and 2019.

Today it is a situation that if any, from the capital Chandigarh to Pul Kanjari, the last village of the country situated on the international Indo-Pakistan border If it is the center of discussion or debate, then it is Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government at the Center.

There is no doubt that these agricultural laws have made the path for the BJP even more difficult and challenging in the current state of farmer-dominated Punjab. But there is also a truth that every challenge brings an opportunity in itself.

In the events of the last twenty days, as the Shiromani Akali Dal tried to break away from the BJP and put forward the original vote bank, after Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Punjab, the Amarinder Singh government brought a new bill in the Legislative Assembly to central laws.

Searching for possibilities of cancellation and Aam Aadmi Party organized fierce demonstrations outside the residence of Amarinder Singh and Akali Dal Supremo Prakash Singh Badal.

Due to this, the growing opposition of BJP in the state, the farmers’ movement seemed less and the strategy of political parties seemed to be more is.

In the initial phase, of course, this movement has got the full support of every section across the state, but now it is not so. Traders and industrialists began to distance themselves from the movement, either directly or indirectly.

Because of the chaos and recession in the market during festivals, due to the blocking of rail or road routes by the farmers or the continuous sit-in demonstrations in urban areas.

The way the Shiromani Akali Dal is trying to regain its scattered original vote bank after the break-up of the Akali-BJP alliance, as the Congress government has announced to stop rail and road routes or take any kind of police action against the protesters.

Pathak is giving priority to bigotry, due to which many fears are being born in the public.

The same apprehensions that arose before the 2017 assembly elections.

when Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal held a meeting with people of some anarchist thinking and the election was reversed such that the Aam Aadmi Party whose government It was believed to be almost fixed, the volume was reduced to 20 seats.

In the last 23 years, there is not much to lose for the BJP already sitting on the political board of the state.

Amid the boycott of the Shiromani Akali Dal in the 1992 assembly elections, the rebel Akalis had won only three seats, contesting 58 seats, while the BJP won six of its 66 constituencies.

But in the last two decades, the BJP in the state had become only a shadow of the Akali Dal, due to which there was a buzz within the BJP to free itself from the coalition once it faced the challenges directly.