Kishor also criticized the India Bloc’s failure to announce a joint prime ministerial candidate, which the BJP also used to attack the opposition group.
New Delhi: Election strategist Prashant Kishor has mocked the Congress-led Indian faction’s chances of defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, arguing that the opposition faction has repeatedly failed to take advantage of that moment. . Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is in defensive mode. , Referring specifically to the controversial Ram temple incident (Pran Pratishtha in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh), he said, “The opposition effectively laid down its arms (after the incident). By the time it woke up again in February, it was very was late.” ,
Three members of the opposition group – Trinamool, Congress and INC. DMK- he told NDTV on Tuesday.
Kishor also criticized the India Bloc’s failure to announce a joint prime ministerial candidate – which was also criticized by the BJP – and suggested that this informed voters that the opposition group had “no credible face against the BJP or Not a strong story”. ,
He also criticized the group for failing to function after its formation in June last year.
The India Bloc had then announced that it aimed to defeat the BJP in every election, including the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, but it failed to build a consensus in the five state elections held in November. Actually, Akhilesh Yadav’s disagreement with Samajwadi Party regarding six seats in Madhya Pradesh is making headlines.
The BJP suffered defeat from the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, following which the Trinamool chief, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Mr Yadav criticized the larger party.
Trinamool had its own problems sharing seats with the Congress, resulting in Ms Banerjee having to contest this election alone, potentially splitting the vote in favor of the BJP.
However, in recent days it has confirmed that it remains part of the India faction.
Mr Kishor’s warning to the opposition is similar to one issued in April.
He had then said that the BJP would significantly increase its seat and vote share in South and East India, except Karnataka, two areas where its control is weak and non-existent. He also said that the BJP and Modi are not invincible, but the opposition has missed three clear and realistic opportunities to defeat the party.
The three occasions he was referring to were the saffron party’s indifferent results in the 2015 and 2016 state elections. During these two years the party lost many assembly elections.
Mr Kishor has long argued that the opposition should have emphasized its gains during those 24 months to derail what has since become a formidable election-winning machinery.
The second occasion was after demonetisation, when the BJP scored big in 2017, winning Uttar Pradesh for the first time in over a decade, but almost lost Gujarat (the Prime Minister’s home state), which it had ruled since 1995. . The Congress made a “mistake” in the 2019 elections, in which it got only 52 seats.
“The latest problem is the declining popularity rating of the Prime Minister after the Covid pandemic and the poor performance of the BJP in the Bengal elections,” Mr Kishore said. “If you keep dropping catches, the batsman will score a century, especially if he is a good batsman,” Kishore had warned two months ago.
The seven-phase general election ends on June 1, when Modi’s seat in Varanasi goes to the polls.
The results will be released on June 4.
