POLITICS

Who will be new BJP President?

Who will succeed J P Nadda as BJP President. Names of Om Mathur, Vinod Tawde and Sunil Bansal are doing the rounds in the Party circles.

BJP’s task force points out reasons behind UP’s debacle

The report of BJP’s task force on the unexpected defeat of the party in Uttar Pradesh in the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls has listed out two main reasons for the defeat – dissent within the party and lack of cooperation from the district administrative machinery. The report has been submitted to the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and following the report submission, the chief minister transferred as many as 12 district magistrates - mostly from the districts falling in the constituencies from where BJP lost in the polls. The BJP’s tally dropped to 33 seats versus the 62 it won in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The task force also blamed BJP’s ‘odd’ ticket distribution, Opposition’s ‘Threat to Constitution’ narrative, and a shift of the BSP vote base to Samajwadi Party (SP) — which successfully managed to woo the Dalit and Muslims voters by playing its Picchda Dalit Alpsankhyak (PDA) card, for the party’s dismal show.