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BJP scored only 2 seats in 1984 elections against the Rajiv Gandhi wave. When senior journalist Shekhar Gupta asked about the possible reasons for their defeat to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, He accepted one of the reasons for their horrible defeat was scarcity of young leaders against Congress’s young Rajiv.
Not only he accepted that but also worked on that along with then ‘Karta Dharta’ of BJP sangathan L.K Advani , and groomed many leaders from various states of India popularly termed as “2nd generation BJP leaders”
Arun Jaitley from Delhi, Promod Mahajan from Maharashtra, Sushma Swaraj from Haryana, Venkiah Naidu from Andhra, Ananth Kumar from Karnataka, Rajnath Singh from UP, Uma Bharti from MP , Manohar Parrikar from Goa and Narendra Modi from Gujarat. All these leaders not only helped Atal and Advani coming in power but were also posted on important places. These were the sailors of Atal Advani who were became their successful successors. Became efficient cabinet ministers , BJP presidents , chief ministers , Prime minister and Vice President.
Does today’s BJP have the leaders from various states of India who can succeed Modi and Shah?
The natural name which comes up when you talk about succession is of Yogi Adityanath. He is Hindu priest, has a huge fan following , is a hard task master but unlike Modi his administration abilities are highly questionable.
The other leader who comes up on mind is Devendra Fadnavis who has all the administration abilities but his electoral and political metal is not yet proved. In 2014 he won because of Modi wave and in 2019 he was the reason for embarrassment for BJP because of his alliance with Ajit Pawar.
Anurag Thakur is yet another name whose future looks bright but is not powerful in his home state.
Dharmendra Pradhan is considered one of the most efficient ministers in Modi cabinet but under his leadership BJP lost Bengal very badly.
Smriti Irani is very efficient campaigner like Sushma Swaraj but unlike Sushma her administrative abilities are highly questionable.
BJP won in 2014 and remain relevant between 2004 to 2014 because of their regional leader s like Vasundhra in Rajasthan, Raman in Chhattisgarh, Yedyuruppa in Karnataka, Shivraj in Madhya Pradesh, Parrikar in Goa and Modi in Gujarat but today most of the states doesn’t have big young leaders.
No Big young name in Gujarat, Bihar, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.
BJP must fix their HR management before 2024 or it could go the Advani way of 2009.
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