For the first time since Narendra Modi swept to power as prime minister in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party is seeing disorganisation and c...
For the first time since Narendra Modi swept to power as prime minister in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party is seeing disorganisation and chaos in its usually disciplined party structure.
Without a doubt, the starkest example here is West Bengal. After three years of rapid growth between 2018 and 2021, the BJP faced a significant setback in the Assembly elections as it threw all its energies behind unseating Mamata Banerjee – only to see her sweep the elections. The shock of going from Union home minister and chief strategist Amit Shah predicting more than 200 seats to the party winning only 77 shook up the party structure.
Turbulence
On Friday, no less than the party’s national vice president Mukul Roy drove over to the Trinamool office in Kolkata in order to be reinducted back in a public ceremony. Roy had defected to the BJP in 2017.
This is on top of second-rung BJP leaders, also poached from the Trinamool, who have released multiple public statements denouncing the BJP and entreating Mamata Banerjee to take them back. Trinamool sources now claim that a fourth of the BJP’s MLAs are ready to desert the party. And this is just big leaders: at the grassroots, The Wire reports that there has been a...
