BJP’s
Mission 2024
BJP
changing its tune, wants alliance with regional parties in states
The BJP leadership is re-calibrating its strategy towards regional parties. Instead of attacking them left, right & center, it is wooing them keeping an eye on 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Until the other day, BJP Chief, J P Nadda was attacking them saying they follow dynastic (Parivarvaad) politics and are corrupt. But now it wants alliance with TDP’s Chandrababu Naidu in Andhra. The Prime Minister had a brief “bump in” meeting with Naidu which followed a meeting of his son Nara Lokesh with Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the contours of alliance. The TDP had supported the NDA candidate in presidential polls. The BJP was keen for an alliance with the ruling YSRCP. But the latter was reluctant due to its own political compulsions.
In Haryana, it is working hard to bring various factions of the Devi Lal's family. Two factions; Dushyant Chautala-led JJP and Ranjit Kumar are already part of the NDA. But the BJP wants the Abhay Chautala led INLD to be part of a greater alliance to give Bhupinder Singh Hooda-led Congress a united fight.
It
is also trying for a patch up between the two factions of LJP; one led by Union
Minister, Pashupati Paran and the other led by Chirag Paswan, Lok Sabha MP and son of
late Ram Vilas Paswan. In Tamil Nadu, it is working hard to bring the EPS and OPS
factions together though EPS faction won a legal battle. The BJP has altered
its strategy in crucial states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu and Haryana
as the leadership has sensed the danger emerging. The PM had said in Kerala recently that all corrupt Opposition parties are trying to unite against the
BJP before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is a
potential face against the BJP not only in the state but outside too. Nitish
Kumar virtually launched his party’s national campaign through display of big
posters with slogans like "Pradesh mein dikha, Desh mein dikhega”.
Therefore, the BJP changed its strategy and wooing allies in states.
