Bengaluru: Due to Covid, many State Government project wasn’t implemented in the State. Many leaders of the BJP have been haunted by this fact that the anti-incumbency wave may have put a brake for gaining votes. The BJP leaders have high hopes on popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to win the state.
According to party sources, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will campaign in state in more than 20 places in the next 20 days. If one goes back in history, no party in Karnataka has been re-elected after 1985. The neighboring Kerala also has a similar political history. However, the CPI (M), which was in power in the Assembly elections two years ago, won for a second time in Kerala. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s desire is to create a similar history in Karnataka.
So, BJP is preparing a strategy to reduce anti-incumbency wave through Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
According to party sources, the BJP High Command is planning to seek votes in three ways. As a first point, the BJP is going to the people of the state with the appeal to vote for the party’s symbol and not the candidates. Secondly, as there is Modi, the new government with new faces would function well. Thirdly, if people give full mandate to BJP the new government would function differently and efficiently.
In addition, Modi, in his speech, like always would try to remember local cultural and social harbingers and thereby develop a heart-to-heart relationship with voters. It has been successful in the past. Moreover, Modi says in his own vein what kind of disadvantages people faced when the Congress was in power. In addition, Modi will all likely say what kind of benefit people get from the double engine Government. He could tell how the Central Government’s clear policies were helpful in Karnataka.
In the case of the caste reservation, the party is in confusion. It seems that if party makes effort to appease Muslims, the Lingayats and the Vokkaligas are likely to go away from the party. Hence BJP leadership is completely depending upon Modi’s popularity to win the elections this time.
Apart from this the party is facing stiff resistance from rebel candidates in more than 30 constituencies including Former Sangh Parivar leaders who joined other parties after party denied ticket to them.