Analysis | BJP’s challenges are both organisational and existential
The Hindu
In West Bengal, BJP leaders point out that the lack of a local face as a chief ministerial candidate hurt them.
BJP’s failure to breach fortress Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal drawing blank in Kerala was only offset by its return to power in secure numbers in Assam and victory of the NDA in Puducherry. Challenges for the BJP are however both organizational and existential. In Assam for example, the BJP’s victory has thrown up the interesting conundrum of just who should be the new chief minister of the State — sitting Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal or Health and Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who is the BJP’s power house in the North East holding its alliances in several States together, and who managed to steer the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests away from politically harming the BJP in the state. Senior party leaders have been saying that the party’s parliamentary board will be taking a view on the matter, meaning that a question mark is hanging on the issue.
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