The opposition must accept that the BJP has built a strong social base for itself. she 1990 Many equations that have arisen in the decade have been absorbed in themselves.
Anti-BJP parties and groups, if they wish, can draw a special message from the by-election results on Sunday. The message is that the strategy they are relying on to deal with the BJP is not working. Rather, even after eight years of coming to power at the Center, the initiative remains in the hands of the BJP. Otherwise, its support base does not appear to be expanding from Telangana in the south to Odisha in the east. By the way, the biggest setback to the opposition was in Gopalganj seat of Bihar. In August last, when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar changed his side, the critics still engrossed in the two-decade-old grammar of politics had said in one voice that now at least in Bihar, the political face will be completely reversed. It was immediately predicted for the general election of 2024 that it would result in one-sided, but in the reverse direction, like 2019. But contrary to the supposed ‘quantum shift’ of Nitish Kumar’s supposedly expected ‘quantum shift’, the BJP managed to save the Gopalganj seat.
Now for the opposition, it is only an argument for consolation that the victory margin of BJP has come down from 36 thousand to two thousand in the Tuanal of 2020. Or that if Owaisi’s party and Sadhu Yadav’s wife had not together cut 19 thousand votes, the story would have been reversed. This if is the permanent if of every election. However, the lesson of this result is that the BJP has become a strong pole on its own in Bihar. Of course, the reason behind this being the immense resources he has and his complete control over the media is one aspect. But at the same time the opposition must acknowledge that the BJP has also built a very strong social base for itself. It has absorbed many of the arguments and equations that arose in the 1990s. Unless the opposition groups make their strategy accepting this truth, they will remain doomed to be disheartened after the results of every election.
