BJP workers' morale hit a new low after Patel stir, poll loss


Ahmedabad, Feb 29 (PTI): The sagging morale of Gujarat BJP workers after the loss in local body polls and the Patel quota agitation has worried party president Amit Shah, who feels that it could be a serious impediment for fighting the state Assembly elections in 2017.

BJP is a cadre-based party which is dependent on its workers for its victories in elections. Even as Shah accepted that there is "disappointment" among the party workers, the task cut out for the BJP is huge.

Shah, on Saturday, had organised a big party workers meet where he gave a pep talk accepting that sitting in Delhi, he could see the dampening morale of Gujarat BJP workers.

He had also said publicly that BJP cannot afford to lose Gujarat as it is a "laboratory" of ideology of Sangh Parivar. In his pep talk, he called on party workers to leave behind all "disappointments, infighting and work collectively" for the 2017 polls.

Shah said that as the 2012 state elections was the stepping stone for 2014 Lok Sabha win, in the same way 2017 victory will pave the way for win in 2019 national elections.

Patel, a numerically and socially influential caste in Gujarat, are up in arms against the state government for the last six months demanding quota. Agitation had turned violent killing 10 people and damaging public and private properties worth crores of rupees.

Acting tough against the leaders of quota agitation like Hardik Patel and his team, the state government has put them behind bars in sedition cases.

There is a simmering discontent among a large section of the Patel community as their quota agitation leaders are behind bars since last four months.

This, according to political pandits, led to the BJP debacle in the local bodies polls where it lost badly to opposition Congress in the district and taluka panchayats elections.

Absence of popular leaders like Narendra Modi from the political scene of the state, who had defeated Congress in elections after elections, was also a factor for the party's dipping spirits in Gujarat.

"All this things have affected the morale of the party cadres and Amitbhai Shah was able to recognise it. The party is passing through a bad phase in Gujarat for the first time after the 2001," a party leader said.

That is why a mega workers meet was organised by the party in which Shah came to boost the party workers, he said.

"We have more than one crore party workers. We win elections on the basis of work by workers. I am sure that on their strength we will come out victorious in the 2017 Assembly polls," newly-elected president of Gujarat BJP Vijay Rupani said.

Shah had also asserted that party will rise like a Phoenix to win Gujarat. "Congress leaders do not know that BJP is like a Phoenix, which will rise from the ashes," he had said.

  

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  • Mohammed, Mangalore

    Tue, Mar 01 2016

    People are not accepting end of RSS and BJP started.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Mon, Feb 29 2016

    Apne Hi Ghar Mein Mar Khane Ke Baad Kya Hizzat Bachi ...

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  • Joseph F. Gonsalves, Bannur, Puttur / Mangalore

    Mon, Feb 29 2016

    Amit Shah is feeling heat in the central as well as in Gujarat also.

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Mon, Feb 29 2016

    Dear Friend, still they have not read or learned what Abraham Lincoln said " You can fool all the people some times and some people all the times, but you can't fool all the people all the times".

    To fulfill all the electoral promise of prosperity in India, Mr. Modi has to locate the rod which Moses used (Musa in Quran),
    thus stretching the rod upward for the rain of wheat and rice and everything else stretch towards the Arabian see to turn the salty water into crude oil, fly around the nation and stretch the rob downwards to create straight highways and shining bullet trains. Still, I am in confusion, has he ever read any news about the world economy before starting the political rhetoric of turning India into a paradise through the foreign investments by the trillions? How he was totally blinded thinking that the foreigners are going to invest their hard earned money into a country with labor disorder-dilapidated infrastructure-red tape-corruption and now plagued with religious friction?

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  • jeevan, mangalore

    Mon, Feb 29 2016

    RSS and BJP must rejuvenate the.part cadre.

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Tue, Mar 01 2016

    Jeevan, let the RSS change the rod to Ak-47 which will make them more powerful and deadly. Already their power has increased in torturing the minorities in any way they can but remember that it will backfire upon the ruling BJP in due time I do assure you that without any apology.

    The letter Mr. Modi got from 24Congressmen and 8 Senators is simply a reminder the Christian and Muslim world are watching what is going on in India now, the reckless mishandling of the religious freedom of the minorities.

    Now the displeasure emerged not only from the Muslims-Christians and Sikh religions mainly, and the rest but now the once solid supporters of the BJP in Gujarat, Haryana and everywhere in the nation have joined hands with the minorities. The Patel community in the U.S. has fully taken a different stand now against the BJP.

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  • A. S. Mathew, U.S.A.

    Mon, Feb 29 2016

    The BJP rocket lost the fuel and now coming down. That is not only in India, but the rest of the world is watching the performance of a party which has delivered mammoth sermon of prosperity but concentrated in transforming a secular democratic nation into a
    Gujarathi imperialism, also as a Theocracy. The whole world is watching this.

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