In MP, Chhattisgarh & Rajasthan, BJP is leading in 26 of 63 seats where Yogi Adityanath campaigned, raising questions about his effectiveness.
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s credentials as a star campaigner for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have taken a severe beating in these elections.
As per the latest trends, in the Hindi heartland, the BJP is trailing in 59 per cent of the seats where Adityanath addressed rallies.
The UP chief minister, who is the BJP’s Hindutva mascot, addressed rallies in 63 constituencies across Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. Of these, the BJP is leading in just 26 seats, a strike rate of 41 per cent.
Adityanath’s poorest strike rate was in Chhattisgarh, where he addressed rallies in 24 seats. Of these, the BJP is leading in only eight. In 2013, the BJP had won 16 of these seats.
Of 13 seats in MP where Adityanath addressed public meetings, the BJP is leading in five. The party had won eight of these in 2013.
Adityanath addressed rallies in 26 seats in Rajasthan, of which the BJP is leading in 13. The last time, the party had won 23 of these constituencies.
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The rabble-rouser fails to leave a mark
Adityanath’s poor strike rate puts a big question mark on the BJP’s strategy to use a Hindutva mascot to make provocative speeches in a clear attempt to polarise voters on communal lines.
Throughout his campaign trail, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister stoked controversies with his rabble-rousing speeches. In Rajasthan, he threatened terror outfit Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Masood Azhar of another surgical strike if he made any threats about the Ram temple. His controversial declaration of Lord Hanuman as a Dalit appeared to have cost the BJP many votes.
And while Adityanath was trying to stoke communal passions in poll-bound states, Uttar Pradesh continued to make headlines for all the wrong reasons — the latest being the killing of a police officer by cow vigilantes in Bulandshahr.
The chief minister had been addressing rallies in Rajasthan when mob violence in Bulandshahr resulted in the murder of Inspector Subodh Kumar Singh.
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BJP is on the verge of decline,Thier hate policies would not work anymore . …
The position of bjp was worst in these states
Its Yogi ji s hard that bjp at least won some seats
Bjp should bring yogi ji in front and announce him as PM candidate if bjp wants to win
Brick brain at work. Obviously no results
When reports emerged of infants / children dying at the government hospital in Gorakhpur – I think it was August last year – it showed not just Yogiji’s administration in a poor light, it began to dent the party’s national image for good governance. To make him a sort of brand ambassador at the national level is to project the many governance / development failings of the state as something for the country to aspire to. It will not work in the South, a largely unconquerable space, but in most other parts of the country as well. I often think of Yogiji as an immense iceberg drifting into the path of an approaching ocean liner on a dark night.