KL Dubey wrote: ↑Sun Jun 03, 2018 2:07 pm
^^^On the contrary I think some people dont pay attention to what the party says, and keep droning for years on 'unfulfilled expectations'.
In case you havent been following the news, the campaign slogan for 2019 is 'saaf niyat sahi vikas'. For 2014 it was 'achhe din aane wale hain'. It is all about development and that is what NaMo has been repeating for years. I fail to understand why people dont listen.
I am still waiting for someone to post a single speech of NaMo's 2014 campaign which raised Hindutva issues.
Hindutva folks vote for NaMo NOT because he has made fiery speeches, but because they know he will not allow hinduism to be pulled down. Hindutva actions like TT, RJB, UCC, etc will happen without needing to be overt campaign issues.
Exactly. If I were the BJP campaign manager, why would I rake up the Hindutva issues which will be used as a pretext to mobilize minorities in elections.?
Instead I would continuously paint the opposition as anti Hindu(actually true), which will allow me to mobilize the Hindu Voters. A lot of times negative sentiment works better than positive one.
Anyways many of the so called core Hindutva issues are not top performers at the ballot box. Just go and ask an ordinary hindu, what he thinks about removing unjust RTE and removing govt control over temples. More often than not you will get a blank face. I am willing to challenge anyone if he or she can prove that inclusion of these as chief electoral issues will increase the BJP voteshare by even 1%. I have done this exercise so I am pretty convinced. Hopefully Maybe the situation will change by 2024, so that parties(not just BJP) cant ignore it anymore.But right now this is not the case. A ground up movement for these issues is yet to be formed.
By the way BJP did promise to remove govt control over temples in the recently concluded Karnatka elections. While BJP pulled off a tremendous performance, it couldnt get past the majority mark. And if somewhere to conduct a survey of voters who voted for BJP they will find out the number of these voters who classified this as the high priority issue is miniscule. Tells you how little of the electoral dividend these issue gets.
Ram temple is definitely an emotive issue for people especially in UP, Bihar,MP etc. But even there high chance is that caste considerations will trump over the Ram temple issue. Otherwise why it is that when elections were held after demolition of Babri Masjid and subsequent dismissal of Kalyan Singh govt, BJP actually got less seats than before and SP-BSP combine were able to form govt.
While we should be making serious efforts towards these issues, the important point is not to raise these as electoral issues for 2019. Instead when you have the numbers(In Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha both), just pass the bills accordingly.
Promise Less, Deliver more.