Farmers Movement Archive

BJP brainstorms to dissect Bihar poll results

PATNA: Slightly over a month after the assembly election, the BJP’s central and state leaderships went into a two-day huddle at Vaishaligarh, around 35 km away from Patna on Monday, to get a reality check on the ground situation of the party in the state and also devise a strategy to strengthen the organisation. According to observers, BJP felt the need for the brainstorming because it had expected that the NDA would win around 150 seats in the assembly election that concluded last month but had to settle for 125. Besides, BJP has to combat the aggressive information campaign that the farmers’ groups have launched against the three controversial farm laws and for the guaranteed purchase of agricultural produce of the farmers at MSP rates. Further, neither BJP nor JD(U) could emerge as the single largest party, as the credit went to RJD with 75 seats, followed by BJP with 74 and JD(U) 43.While the NDA comprising BJP, JD(U), VIP and HAM(S) could form the government led by Nitish Kuma the combine was on its toes during Speaker's election as the opposition fielding its candidate breaking the convention of having a unanimously elected Speaker. “The NDA has formed the government in the state. BJP’s central and state leaders held their two-day conclave to discuss organisational matters and also decide to have coordination between the party and the government,” state BJP spokesman Prem Ranjan Patel said. He added that the stress was on devising a strategy and programme to work on to strengthen and expand the party. “We had expected to win around 135-150 assembly seats. That could not happen. Despite that, we have a good majority and were able to form the NDA government in the state,” Patel said, adding a special responsibility has devolved on those in the state BJP and ministers in the government to maintain proper coordination between the government and the party. Among those who participated in the two-day conclave were the BJP national general secretary (organization) B L Santosh and his co-incharge Saudan Singh, as well as national general secretary incharge of Bihar Bhupender Yadav his co-incharge Hari Dwivedi, state president Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal, state general secretary (organization) Nagendra and other functionaries, including Ratnakar and Shivnarayan.Bhupender Yadav said conferences of active workers would be held soon and details would be disclosed soon. Patna: Slightly over a month after the assembly elections this year, the BJP’s central and state leaderships went into a two-day huddle at Vaishaligarh, around 35 km away from Patna, beginning Monday, to have reality check on the actually existing condition of the party and also devise a strategy to strengthen the organization in the future. According to observers, the BJP felt it necessary to go for the reality check on the party, because it had earlier expected that the NDA would win around 150 assembly seats in the assembly elections that concluded last month, but had to settle with only 125 wins. Besides, the BJP has to combat the aggressive information campaign that the farmers’ groups have launched against the three controversial farm laws and for the guaranteed purchase of the agriculture produce of the farmers at the MSP rates. Further, neither the BJP nor the JD(U) could emerge as the largest individual party, as the credit went to the RJD with 75 wins, followed by the BJP with 74 wins and the JD(U) 43. In the situation, even as the NDA comprising the BJP, JD(U), VIP and HAM(S) could form its government led by CM Nitish Kumar, the combine had to be on its toes during the election of the state assembly Speaker, as the opposition forced the election for the post by fielding its own candidate, giving a goodbye to the convention of having unanimously elected Speaker. “The NDA has formed the government in the state. The BJP’s central and state leaders held their two-day conclave to discuss organisatinal matters and also decide to have coordination between the party and the government,” state BJP spokesman Prem Ranjan Patel said, adding that the stress was on devising the strategy and programmes to work on so as to strengthen and expand the organisation. “We had expected to win around 135-150 assembly seats. That could not happen. Despite that, we had good majority and were able to form the NDA government in the state,” Patel also said, adding that a special responsibility has devolved on those in the state BJP and ministers in the government to maintain proper coordination between the government and the party. Among those who participated in the two-day conclave were the BJP national general secretary (organization) B L Santosh and his co-incharge Saudan Singh, as well as national general secretary incharge of Bihar Bhupender Yadav his co-incharge Hari Dwivedi, state president Dr Sanjay Kumar Jaiswal, state general secretary (organization) Nagendra and other functionaries, including Ratnakar and Shivnarayan. As said by Bhupender Yadav, the conferences of the active workers would be held in the near, and the details would be disclosed soon.

The Times of India

2020-12-16

Patna