Mayoral poll victory helped BJP’s resurgence
The resounding victory of BJP in the recently concluded mayoral poll in Lucknow has given a big boost to the sagged morals of the BJP workers. This changing attitude was much evident during the Parivartan Rally held at Lucknow recently. Although the victory may be of little consequence in terms of number of assembly seats, it helped infuse the moral of party workers who had converged on the Ambedkar Rally ground in the state capital.
People close to Dr. Dinesh Sharma, who eventually went on to win the mayoral election with a slender margin, tells that Dr. Sharma had least expected his victory. During the elections, Dr. Sharma was camping in the house of one of his close relative and is reported to have said on several occasions that he was fighting for the second or third position.
Till the mayoral elections, the BJP was being seen as a fragmented party with least chances of coming back to power. A few days hence that BJP leaders like Advani exuded confidence that the party will regain power in UP under the stewardship of Kalyan Singh, who, he said was BJP’s obvious choice for chief ministership. Advani had this to say further: “Out of the four states which are going to polls early next year, UP is the most important because the results of these election will decide the future politics of the nation.”
Echoing similar sentiments, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee exhorted party men to sink differences and work unitedly to achieve the target set by the party not only for the UP polls but also for the next Lok Sabha polls. Vajpayee went to the extent of saying that if the BJP regained power in UP, the UPA government at the Centre would not complete its full five-year term.
State party chief Keshari Nath Tripathi too claimed that the response to the rally was overwhelming.
All this show that the BJP is tightening its belt to go to the polls with renewed vigour once again and this has only been possible because of its unexpected win some time back.
The resounding victory of BJP in the recently concluded mayoral poll in Lucknow has given a big boost to the sagged morals of the BJP workers. This changing attitude was much evident during the Parivartan Rally held at Lucknow recently. Although the victory may be of little consequence in terms of number of assembly seats, it helped infuse the moral of party workers who had converged on the Ambedkar Rally ground in the state capital.
People close to Dr. Dinesh Sharma, who eventually went on to win the mayoral election with a slender margin, tells that Dr. Sharma had least expected his victory. During the elections, Dr. Sharma was camping in the house of one of his close relative and is reported to have said on several occasions that he was fighting for the second or third position.
Till the mayoral elections, the BJP was being seen as a fragmented party with least chances of coming back to power. A few days hence that BJP leaders like Advani exuded confidence that the party will regain power in UP under the stewardship of Kalyan Singh, who, he said was BJP’s obvious choice for chief ministership. Advani had this to say further: “Out of the four states which are going to polls early next year, UP is the most important because the results of these election will decide the future politics of the nation.”
Echoing similar sentiments, former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee exhorted party men to sink differences and work unitedly to achieve the target set by the party not only for the UP polls but also for the next Lok Sabha polls. Vajpayee went to the extent of saying that if the BJP regained power in UP, the UPA government at the Centre would not complete its full five-year term.
State party chief Keshari Nath Tripathi too claimed that the response to the rally was overwhelming.
All this show that the BJP is tightening its belt to go to the polls with renewed vigour once again and this has only been possible because of its unexpected win some time back.
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