Can BJP Win Delhi? Modi’s Get together Has This 5-Level Technique to Finish 27-Yr-Lengthy Drought – News18

Final Up to date:January 06, 2025, 07:00 IST

Delhi elections: Main the cost towards AAP is BJP’s high face, PM Narendra Modi. A wildcard benefit for BJP may very well be the Congress and BSP contesting on all 70 seats and consuming into AAP’s votes

Can the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) finish its 27-year-long energy drought in Delhi?

The celebration is using a multi-pronged technique to dwell as much as this problem because it senses “anti-incumbency” towards the Aam Aadmi Get together’s (AAP) decade-long rule, and feels that the narrative of AAP’s corruption and misgovernance has percolated to the plenty.

The BJP’s marketing campaign can be very localised this time, with the Prime Minister talking about sewers and water-logged roads and the DTC fleet, in a marked shift from the ‘nationwide’ points marketing campaign run by the BJP in Delhi prior to now.

The hassle is to the touch the heart beat of the frequent Delhiite on the problems he’s going through day in and day trip.

The BJP’s technique appears to be on 5 political pillars, glimpses of which have been evident within the two public addresses of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi final week.

1. Modi is once more the BJP’s face in Delhi and the celebration will not be projecting any chief ministerial face.
2. The PM and residential minister Amit Shah are main the assault on AAP on the ‘sheeshmahal’ marketing campaign across the CM’s prosperous residence, feeling that is AAP’s Achilles’ heel.
3. The BJP is highlighting the AAP’s misgovernance from the state of the Yamuna to air air pollution, to attempt to preserve the marketing campaign ‘native’. It says Delhi wants a ‘double-engine’ authorities run by the BJP.
4. The BJP is planning a powerful counter to AAP’s two main weapons – free electrical energy, and the Rs-2,100 promise to girls. The BJP has additionally made a significant overture to slum-dwellers who’re a significant vote financial institution, with Modi saying everybody will get a pucca dwelling.
5. The BJP is hoping that the Congress and the BSP will dent AAP’s votes in a number of seats, and the BJP might achieve from it.

MODI IS THE FACE

Main the cost towards the AAP once more is the BJP’s high face, Prime Minister Narendra Modi. This was additionally the case in 2020 when the BJP misplaced. The BJP had projected Kiran Bedi as their chief ministerial face in 2015, however that resulted in a catastrophe because the AAP received as many as 67 out of the 70 seats in Delhi. Arvind Kejriwal and his celebration are taking potshots on the BJP asking who their “dulha” (bridegroom) is in these elections.

However the BJP feels that there are greater points on this election than a CM face. It’s buoyed by the wins in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh in 2023 with out projecting any CM face. The 2 posters launched by the BJP to date solely have Modi because the face on them.

The BJP feels the AAP has sophisticated its personal technique by saying that Kejriwal will substitute Atishi because the CM if the AAP wins, regardless of the Supreme Court docket placing stiff circumstances on Kejriwal whereas granting him bail.

SHEESHMAHAL IS AAP’S ACHILLES’ HEEL

In contrast to 2020, when the BJP didn’t have as a lot ammunition on the entrance of corruption of the AAP, this election is completely different because the ‘sheeshmahal’ controversy across the CM’s prosperous residence may show to be its Achilles’ heel, the BJP feels. This explains PM Modi and Shah main the assault on the difficulty.

“I by no means constructed a home for myself…I may even have constructed a sheeshmahal however my dream has been that the poor get a concrete home,” PM Modi stated at a rally on Friday.

A contemporary CAG report, which has not been tabled within the Delhi Meeting but, has additionally posed critical questions on the lavish expenditure on refurbishing and renovating the CM’s residence in Delhi.

The PM has led the assault on this CAG report as effectively, saying Kejriwal was targeted on constructing the “sheeshmahal” at a time when the nationwide capital was fighting Covid.

FAILED GOVERNANCE MODEL

The BJP can be doubling down on the state of the Yamuna river, and the persistent air air pollution situation within the nationwide capital, to nook the AAP’s governance mannequin in Delhi. The PM has termed AAP as “AAP-Da” or a calamity for Delhi.

Whereas the AAP is showcasing its well being and schooling mannequin in Delhi, the BJP is making an attempt to inform the folks that the AAP has failed on core governance points such because the sewage system and water shortage, and is at all times on a confrontational mode with the centre, therefore impeding Delhi’s growth.

In reality, the BJP is imploring voters to return to the ‘growth’ mannequin of governance moderately than the AAP’s freebie tradition – very like it was within the Sheila Dikshit-era when the Congress was in energy each within the centre and the state. The BJP is urging Delhi’s voters to once more go for a ‘double engine’ authorities in Delhi of the BJP in order that developmental exercise in Delhi can go forward unhindered.

“It’s important for Delhi to stroll hand-in-hand with India’s growth journey…It’s important for the BJP to be in energy each within the centre and in Delhi,” the PM stated in Rohini on Sunday, including that every one large works in Delhi are carried out by the centre and that it has given Rs 75,000 crore to Delhi.

The Prime Minister’s twin rallies in Delhi final week have targeted on a ‘growth present’ for Delhi and that is the BJP’s large focus now. The PM can be imploring voters to think about how can a celebration whose high leaders needed to go to jail in varied corruption scams concentrate on growth?

The excise rip-off, moreover sheeshmahal, is one other large marketing campaign level for the BJP. PM Modi on Sunday pointed to varied scams in Delhi to say varied senior AAP leaders confronted critical legal prices and have been to jail.

COUNTERING AAP’S ACES

The AAP appears to have a powerful benefit on two counts in Delhi – one, its continued concentrate on free electrical energy that has delivered large wins in 2015 and 2020. The opposite is its promise of Rs 2,100 for ladies this time, if it returns to energy, which has proved to be a profitable technique for a number of events in different states – just like the BJP, the Congress, and the JMM. The BJP may strongly counter each these factors with sure guarantees in its manifesto, News18 learns. To date, the BJP has been making an attempt to poke holes within the AAP’s girls’s scheme promise saying that AAP has didn’t ship the identical in Punjab for almost three years now.

Nevertheless, the BJP is aware of it’s going to take extra to persuade the voters in any other case. Particularly, because the BJP is implementing the same girls’s scheme in states similar to Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. The PM appears to have hinted in direction of the identical when in Rohini he stated the BJP will take steps to make the life of girls simpler.

UNLIKELY ALLIES

A wildcard benefit for the BJP may show to be the Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP) contesting on all 70 seats in Delhi and the prospect of each these events consuming into the AAP vote-bank and ending up serving to the BJP. The Congress is aggressive towards the AAP which has dismissed the Congress as “not a problem”.

In main triangular fights, like the important thing seats of Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi, the Congress has put up robust faces to make sure there isn’t any walkover. All that is music to the BJP’s ears.

Will this be sufficient for the BJP to carry out a miracle in Delhi? BJP leaders say that after the Haryana win final yr, nothing is unimaginable.