New Delhi: Will BJP's drought in Kerala finally end and will the political temperature rise after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's sharp attack or will Congress increase turnout after relatively low enthusiasm among voters in the first phase, these are the questions people are asking. are roaming in the mind because voting is to be held on 89 Lok Sabha seats on Friday.
As polling entered the saffron strongholds, several senior BJP and opposition leaders, including Congress' Rahul Gandhi and Shash Tharoor and Union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Kailash Choudhary and Rajeev Chandrashekhar, are in the fray.
In 2019, the BJP had won 53 of these and its existing allies had won 12 seats, including seven out of eight in Uttar Pradesh, all 13, eight and seven seats in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and four out of five in Assam and Bihar. Seats included. ,
Constituents of the current India Bloc had won 23 seats in the last general election.
To improve its numbers, the BJP will have to not only retain its stronghold but also make fresh inroads as it battles the opposition Indian faction, led by Modi.After the first phase of voting on 102 seats on April 19, the Prime Minister stepped up his attack on the Congress, accusing it of seeking to provide nationwide reservation to Muslims in the quota earmarked for Other Backward Classes.
He has also warned voters in his election rallies that the Congress government at the Center will take away women's property, including their 'Mangalsutra', to benefit those who are "infiltrators" and those who have more children, as he said in his Cited a speech of predecessor Manmohan Singh. Return your claim.
The Congress, in turn, has accused him of lying and spreading communal division and claimed that he is fed up with the BJP's poor performance and has filed a complaint against him with the Election Commission.
BJP has also filed complaints against Congress leaders including Gandhi, due to which the Election Commission has issued notices to the presidents of both the parties and sought their answers.
Political observers will be keeping an eye on whether the rising political temperature prevails over the heat wave-like conditions that have been blamed in some quarters for the decline in voting percentage last week and are pushing more voters to the booths.If Kerala, like Tamil Nadu in the first phase, will be the test of BJP's entire expansion campaign, states like Maharashtra and to some extent Karnataka are being keenly watched as many new factors have emerged there since 2019.
Uddhav Thackeray, an ally of the BJP in the last national elections, is now the face of the Indian faction in Maharashtra, while the official version of the Shiv Sena he once led is an ally of the BJP under Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Another major regional party, the Nationalist Congress Party, has also split and its faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, which is recognized as the de facto party, is now with the BJP, while its founding leader Sharad Pawar is part of the opposition faction. .
The BJP-led alliance had won 41 out of 48 seats in the western state, which has the highest number of Lok Sabha seats after Uttar Pradesh.
Congress is now in power in Karnataka and its former ally JD(S) is in the BJP camp.The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has sitting MPs on 27 of the 28 seats in the state, and the India Bloc is counting on its welfare schemes to make a dent in its stronghold.
The BJP is counting on actor Suresh Gopi, Union minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar and Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader AK Antony, to open its account in Kerala, where the party has never elected any MP. In Thiruvananthapuram, Chandrashekhar is contesting against three-time Congress MP Tharoor.
Gandhi is contesting from Wayanad, the constituency he currently represents in the Lok Sabha.
Voting in the first phase was recorded at 62.37 percent, which may still be revised as the number of votes increases.The voting percentage in the first phase in 2019 was 69.43 per cent when 91 seats went to polls.
As polling entered the saffron strongholds, several senior BJP and opposition leaders, including Congress' Rahul Gandhi and Shash Tharoor and Union ministers Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Kailash Choudhary and Rajeev Chandrashekhar, are in the fray.
In 2019, the BJP had won 53 of these and its existing allies had won 12 seats, including seven out of eight in Uttar Pradesh, all 13, eight and seven seats in Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and four out of five in Assam and Bihar. Seats included. ,
Constituents of the current India Bloc had won 23 seats in the last general election.
To improve its numbers, the BJP will have to not only retain its stronghold but also make fresh inroads as it battles the opposition Indian faction, led by Modi.After the first phase of voting on 102 seats on April 19, the Prime Minister stepped up his attack on the Congress, accusing it of seeking to provide nationwide reservation to Muslims in the quota earmarked for Other Backward Classes.
He has also warned voters in his election rallies that the Congress government at the Center will take away women's property, including their 'Mangalsutra', to benefit those who are "infiltrators" and those who have more children, as he said in his Cited a speech of predecessor Manmohan Singh. Return your claim.
The Congress, in turn, has accused him of lying and spreading communal division and claimed that he is fed up with the BJP's poor performance and has filed a complaint against him with the Election Commission.
BJP has also filed complaints against Congress leaders including Gandhi, due to which the Election Commission has issued notices to the presidents of both the parties and sought their answers.
Political observers will be keeping an eye on whether the rising political temperature prevails over the heat wave-like conditions that have been blamed in some quarters for the decline in voting percentage last week and are pushing more voters to the booths.If Kerala, like Tamil Nadu in the first phase, will be the test of BJP's entire expansion campaign, states like Maharashtra and to some extent Karnataka are being keenly watched as many new factors have emerged there since 2019.
Uddhav Thackeray, an ally of the BJP in the last national elections, is now the face of the Indian faction in Maharashtra, while the official version of the Shiv Sena he once led is an ally of the BJP under Chief Minister Eknath Shinde.
Another major regional party, the Nationalist Congress Party, has also split and its faction led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, which is recognized as the de facto party, is now with the BJP, while its founding leader Sharad Pawar is part of the opposition faction. .
The BJP-led alliance had won 41 out of 48 seats in the western state, which has the highest number of Lok Sabha seats after Uttar Pradesh.
Congress is now in power in Karnataka and its former ally JD(S) is in the BJP camp.The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has sitting MPs on 27 of the 28 seats in the state, and the India Bloc is counting on its welfare schemes to make a dent in its stronghold.
The BJP is counting on actor Suresh Gopi, Union minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar and Anil Antony, son of veteran Congress leader AK Antony, to open its account in Kerala, where the party has never elected any MP. In Thiruvananthapuram, Chandrashekhar is contesting against three-time Congress MP Tharoor.
Gandhi is contesting from Wayanad, the constituency he currently represents in the Lok Sabha.
Voting in the first phase was recorded at 62.37 percent, which may still be revised as the number of votes increases.The voting percentage in the first phase in 2019 was 69.43 per cent when 91 seats went to polls.
