BJP chief Nadda’s last shot! The term started due to defeat in Delhi elections, now the eyes are at the end

Author: Raj Kumar Singh
Jagat Prakash Nadda’s farewell Vela is close to the BJP’s National President. his/her term was completed in February 2024 last year, but the Lok Sabha elections and then the state assembly elections continued to be extended. According to the constitution of BJP, it is mandatory for 50% state units to have an organizational election before the election of the national president. This process was delayed. Therefore, the chairman of Nadda was also extended. Then in the name of the new president, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the consent of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is also necessary. Now there are indications that by mid -February BJP will get the new national president.Beginning from defeat: It will be interesting to see whether the BJP will be able to win Delhi on the way to Nadda? This question becomes more important because the party faced defeat once again in the February 2020 Delhi assembly elections held at the early period of Nadda. he/she was made the BJP Executive National President in June 2019, but the full -time president was formed in January, 2020. In this way, the first election examination was chaired by the Delhi Assembly Election Nadda in February 2020, but the BJP’s share was defeated.

Mixed results: JP Nadda’s entire term as a national president has been a mixed result for the party. Nadda was made the executive chairman after the party was made the Union Home Minister for the second consecutive time in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Assembly elections were held in Haryana, Maharashtra, Jharkhand and Delhi soon after that. The BJP, deprived of majority in Haryana, had to form a government by forming an alliance with the new regional party JJP, but after five years, the party made up the ‘hat -trick’ of power in the 2024 election after five years. In Maharashtra, the game of forming the government was long due to the dispute between the BJP and Shiv Sena. But in the 2024 assembly elections, the unilateral victory of the BJP -led Mahayuti alliance approved all its experiments.

Slows in many states: The BJP, who lost its power in Jharkhand during Nadda’s presidential period, could not achieve even in the 2024 election after five years. In South India, the BJP governments were ousted from power in their presidential era in their only stronghold Karnataka and Nadda’s home state Himachal Pradesh. Through Chirag Paswan in Bihar assembly elections, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal United was pushed third and the BJP became the largest party. But Nitish, who was angry with this furore, left the NDA and went to the Grand Alliance of RJD and Congress. he/she was also successful in becoming the Chief Minister. However, during the presidential period of Nadda, Nitish again changed his/her back to NDA earlier last year.

Win in the largest state: The BJP managed to get a majority for the second consecutive time in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s largest state. In Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Nadda also won during the Presidential period. In the assembly elections held in late 2018, BJP was evicted by the Congress from the power of these three states. From Jyotiraditya Scindia’s party change, BJP in Madhya Pradesh, in the 2020 Corona period, the Congress government was successful in forming its government, but for Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, it had to wait for the assembly elections held at the end of 2023.

Famous statements: In the Lok Sabha elections, BJP seats were reduced from 303 to 240 in Nadda’s presidential period. Nevertheless, in addition to an interview given regarding the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh amidst the Lok Sabha elections, his/her tenure is considered undeniable. In that interview, Nadda had said that when the BJP was new and weak, it needed the help of the Sangh, now the BJP has become big and capable. However, in relation to the Chairman of Nadda, it is said that most of the decisions were taken by the pair of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, which was done by JP Nadda. There is proof of Modi and Shah’s belief on Nadda that before the end of the Chairman period, he/she was handed over two important departments like a health and chemicals.

What will be farewell: Despite this, Nadda will wish that his/her farewell to the post of president should be with victory in the Delhi Assembly elections. Of course it is not easy, but not impossible either. It is almost certain that the BJP is going to perform better in the 2025 Delhi assembly elections from 2015 and 2020.

(The author is a senior journalist and political analyst)