If you divide, the opposition narrative will be destroyed in the fire! UP-Maharashtra did not live with Rahul-Akhilesh even for 7 months

New Delhi: The pot was made of wood only. Yes, it’s settled. In Haryana, the bottom of the pot was burnt, in Maharashtra the entire pot was burnt to ashes. The call of ‘If you divide, you will be divided’ lit such a torch of unity in the minds of Hindu voters that every fiber of the bottomless pot got burnt. The opposition campaigned extensively in the Lok Sabha elections that if BJP comes to power for the third time, the Constitution and reservation will be in danger. The biggest impact of this campaign was in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra. In UP, Samajwadi Party (SP) gave its best performance in history and left BJP behind. At the same time, BJP suffered a big setback in Maharashtra also. There the Congress party increased its seats by 12 while the BJP lost 14 seats. Only BJP, which gave the slogan of ‘this time 400 paar’ for its alliance NDA, was reduced to 240 seats while Congress added 52 seats to its tally and won 99 candidates. Similarly, SP went from five to 37 – a gain of more than 700%.

UP-Maharashtra bombed the opposition in Lok Sabha elections

The Lok Sabha election results gave a clear majority to the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), yet the duo of Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav campaigned as if the BJP had lost and the Congress-SP alliance had registered a landslide victory. Rahul Gandhi even said that Congress has got a psychological victory. On the other hand, no stone was left unturned in publicizing the defeat of the BJP candidate in Faizabad, the Lok Sabha seat of Ayodhya, the city of Lord Ram in Uttar Pradesh, as the defeat of Hindutva and nationalist sentiments. Akhilesh Yadav even called his/her Faizabad MP Avadhesh Prasad the ‘King of Ayodhya’.

Rahul-Akhilesh had weapons in their hands

Under the leadership of Rahul-Akhilesh, the opposition tried to show in the Parliament meetings that now it has got the weapon to ground the politics of Modi-Shah. Even while taking oath as an MP, Rahul Gandhi waved the Red Book of the Constitution in the Lok Sabha. On the other hand, Akhilesh Yadav started making MP Avadhesh Prasad sit next to him/her on the front seat as a symbol of the unbreakable alliance of PDA (Backward, Dalit, Minority). The message was clear – protection of the Constitution, demand for caste census and call for unity of PDA will remain the pivot of opposition politics. Rahul started strengthening his/her claim by giving the slogan ‘The more population, the more rights’ that he/she will not only ask for caste census from Modi government but also Will get it done. In fact, in a big state like Uttar Pradesh, the fear of threat to the Constitution and reservation turned Dalits against BJP, so Rahul felt that if this experiment went ahead in other states of the country too, BJP’s Hindutva politics could be demolished. On one hand Rahul’s confidence increased and on the other hand BJP came under psychological pressure. Even the Sangh justified the caste census provided the objectives were pure.

Broken narrative in Haryana assembly elections

The opposition entered the Haryana Assembly elections with strong morale while the BJP, trapped in the web of despair, contested the elections. Rahul Gandhi again started waving the copy of the Constitution in election rallies. Here, BJP learned from the mistakes of Uttar Pradesh and started secretly improving the ground. An intensive public relations campaign was launched and the voters were made aware of the reality of the opposition’s narrative. By then there was a coup in Bangladesh and under the guise of the movement against Sheikh Hasina’s government, Islamic Jihad started an orgy of brutality. In Bangladesh, Islamic fundamentalists started killing innocent Hindus, innocent Hindu girls started being raped, places of worship and houses of Hindus started being burnt. In this scenario, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in an election rally in Haryana – If you divide, you will be cut, if you remain united, you will remain noble.

Haryana’s defeat turned into a wooden pot

This mantra given by Yogi took deep roots in the minds of Hindus. he/she was seeing in Bangladesh how the oppressing Muslims were crossing the limits of brutality against the weak Hindus. On the other hand, BJP-Sangh workers also explained to him/her that the threat to constitutional reservation is nothing but false propaganda. he/she also presented evidence before the voters that it is the Congress which is threatening Dalit reservation because the state governments of its party have snatched away the reservations of Dalits and backward classes and given them to Muslims or have made attempts to give them to Muslims. Then when the results of the Haryana Assembly elections came, it became clear that the narratives that Rahul-Akhilesh had floated in the Lok Sabha would no longer be able to withstand the heat of election test. Congress, which was confident of victory, faced defeat for the third consecutive time in Haryana and for the first time the state ordered a government to return to power for the second consecutive time. In Haryana’s defeat, the pot of opposition’s narratives remained bottomless.

BJP made reforms after losing in Lok Sabha

Here, BJP understood that if it continues to move forward on the path of Hindutva without hesitation, carelessness and with immense confidence, then accidents like Lok Sabha elections can be avoided. Yogi Adityanath is again on the front foot in Maharashtra. The special thing was that not only RSS-BJP, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself took the lead. Do not divide among castes, remain united, only then you will be able to face vote jihad – Hindus have adopted this basic mantra. Today the results are out – Congress is on course to win only 16 seats after fighting on 101 seats, while its allies Shiv Sena (UBT) seem to be limited to 21 seats and NCP (SP) to 10 seats.

broke up within 7 months

On the other hand, BJP has surprised big political pundits by moving towards victory on 132 seats. Its fellow parties Shiv Sena and NCP also left no stone unturned in doing wonders. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde’s Shiv Sena is headed to win 55 seats while Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar’s NCP is headed to win 41 seats. This brilliant performance of Shinde and Ajit only means that Hindus in Maharashtra have vowed not to divide. That is why voters did not show even an iota of sympathy towards Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar respectively. On the other hand, in the by-elections held on nine assembly seats of Uttar Pradesh, BJP’s victory on seven seats proved Akhilesh’s PDA formula to be fleeting. Overall, the two states that brought joy to the opposition in the Lok Sabha elections, UP and Maharashtra, did not cooperate even for seven months.