Mahila, Kisan, ‘OBC Secure Hain’, Vidarbha Flip & Sharad’s Collapse: 5 Elements Behind Mahayuti’s Maharashtra Win – News18
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BJP has performed the lead position within the Mahayuti by main in additional seats that the complete MVA mixed. It’s the single-largest occasion with seats within the excessive three-digit mark
Essentially the most essential motive for the BJP’s massive efficiency is the collapse of Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray) and the defeat of the Congress in direct contests with the BJP. (AFP)
Help from ladies and farmers, an OBC consolidation publish the ‘Ek Hain Toh Secure Hain’ slogan of the prime minister, a complete flip within the Vidarbha area, and the collapse of Sharad Pawar — these 5 main causes are behind the sweep of the Mahayuti (MY) within the Maharashtra elections, led by BJP.
With 53 lakh extra ladies voting in these elections in comparison with 2019, and their voting proportion rising by six proportion factors, the feminine voter has rewarded the Mahayuti for the ‘Ladki Behan Yojana’ underneath which over 2.5 crore ladies within the state received 5 instalments of Rs 1,500 every until the elections. With the ‘first-mover’ benefit on this scheme, the Mahayuti promised climbing the quantity to Rs 2,100 — one thing that the ladies voters have reposed their religion in fairly than the Rs 3,000 promise of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA). It’s clear that these ladies voters transcended caste boundaries, in addition to spiritual boundaries, to vote for the Mahayuti.
BJP has performed the lead position within the Mahayuti by main in additional seats that the complete MVA mixed. It’s the single-largest occasion with seats within the excessive three-digit mark. One other massive motive for that is farmers supporting the MY in an enormous manner after BJP reached out to the cotton and soybean farmers with assurances on the MSP problem. BJP promised to acquire cotton crops above the Minimal Help Value (MSP) this season and to acquire soybean underneath the Value Help Scheme with moisture content material tolerance of as much as 15 per cent. It appears farmers have been not upset with the Mahayuti.
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BJP additionally departed from conference to vow a full mortgage waiver for farmers — one thing it has normally not executed in state elections. That is chargeable for the entire flip within the Vidarbha area which the Mahayuti has received in an enormous manner this time, after dropping eight out of the ten Lok Sabha seats right here within the common elections six months in the past.
The fourth, and a significant factor, for the Mahayuti’s win is the robust OBC consolidation within the Mahayuti’s favour, pushed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slogan ‘Ek Hain Toh Secure Hain’. The slogan was such a draw that Rahul Gandhi needed to preserve his final press convention within the Maharashtra marketing campaign across the identical. Whereas MVA had mentioned the slogan is divisive, it has served its goal of a Hindu consolidation in Maharashtra. Within the Lok Sabha elections, the Maratha-Muslim-Mahar (Ambedkarite Buddhist) consolidation had harm the MY because the ‘Structure is in peril’ narrative run amok. Mahayuti had confronted a double whammy within the Lok Sabha polls. Whereas Marathas then voted towards them because of the unfulfilled promise of reservation, the Different Backward Courses (OBC), too, have been upset with the BJP’s overtures to the Marathas.
Nevertheless, this time, the PM’s slogan turned the dominant narrative and counter consolidation of the 38 per cent OBC vote in Maharashtra.
The ultimate, and maybe essentially the most essential motive for the BJP’s massive efficiency, is the collapse of Sharad Pawar’s occasion and the defeat of the Congress in direct contests with the BJP. There have been 76 seats by which BJP and Congress have been in direct fights — BJP is main in practically 2/3rds of those seats. The excessive strike price of the BJP has harm the Congress closely. Sharad Pawar was seen as a menace within the BJP camp earlier than the elections however his collapse and end on the final spot has harm the MYA. Additionally, BJP has been capable of snatch a whole lot of the ‘Hindu vote’ of Uddhav Thackeray’s occasion with its fashionable slogan ‘Ek Hain Toh Secure Hain’. The great efficiency of Eknath Shinde has additionally harm Uddhav within the direct contests.
A hidden weapon of the BJP has been the robust RSS groundwork in Maharashtra in these elections — the right-wing organisation did over 60,000 small conferences within the state and mobilised the BJP voter to return out and vote. That mirrored within the document 5 per cent greater voting within the state this time, in addition to the 80 per cent+ strike price of the BJP within the 152 seats it contested in these elections.
The million-dollar query now could be — with its massive tally, which is greater than double that of Eknath Shinde’s occasion, will the BJP insist upon Devendra Fadnavis because the chief minister, as he has the backing of the RSS too?
