With sturdy anti-incumbency fuelled with the aid of using a raft of corruption allegations in Karnataka, the BJP is now focusing at the place which has been the stronghold of its rival Janata Dal (Secular) or JDS – Chamrajanagar district withinside the Old Mysuru Region – for the election due later this year. BJP Chief JP Nadda nowadays flagged off the birthday birthday celebration`s first election marketing campaign, “Vijay Sankalp Yatra” – first the various 4 deliberate yatras from the 4 corners of the state – from Hanur meeting seat.
The Old Mysore Region, with sixty one meeting seats, is a stronghold of the JDS. The Congress has additionally been a prime pressure withinside the area. In 2018, the BJP did relatively nicely in coastal Karnataka and the Mumbai-Karnataka regions. However, it fell brief of a clean majority in components of the antique Mysuru place and the Hyderabad-Karnataka place.
“It’s been nearly not possible for the BJP to assert victory withinside the Old Mysuru place. To improve the base, they’ve began the yatra from here. The awareness is, of course, to bolster the Nanjangud and Gundlupet meeting seats. And greater importantly, the Chamarajanagar meeting seat in which we lacked support. Further, we can slowly flow into Mysuru, Mandya and Nanjungudu,” stated BJP spokesperson S Prakash.
Chamarajanagar is one the various 9 districts of the Old Mysore Region that consists of Mysuru, Mandya, Ramanagara, Bengaluru Rural, Kolar, Chikkaballapur, Tumakuru, and Hassan districts. It has 4 meeting segments – Hanur, Chamarajanagar, Kollegal and Gundlupet.
Why Chamarajanar turned into the selection of the BJP to flag off the yatra?
In Hanur, the BJP has located it difficult to defeat the Congress’s 3-time MLA R Narendra from the Vokkaliga network at the same time as in Chamarajanagar meeting seat, Congress’ C Puttarangashetty from the OBC network gained withinside the 2018 meeting election.
In 2018, Mr Puttarangashetty scored a hattrick with the aid of using defeating BJP’s KR Mallikarjunappa with a margin of 4,913 votes. He turned into the winner from the seat withinside the 2013 and 2008 elections too.
“Mr Puttarangashetty has been going through a sturdy anti-incumbency wave. A terrible overall performance withinside the meeting should spell hassle for the Congress, at a time whilst the BJP is attempting difficult to shift the Congress votes with pro-improvement promises. Observing the overall performance of the BJP MLAs and gauging the heart beat of the people, the BJP has determined to release their election marketing campaign from Chamarajanagar district nowadays,” a ballot strategist with the Congress advised NDTV.
Highly located reassets withinside the BJP advised NDTV: “In 3 of the 4 meeting seats in Chamarajanagar district, the BJP is seeking to discipline applicants from the Lingayat network at the same time as the fourth seat – Kollegal – has been reserved for the candidate from Scheduled Caste network”.
The BJP is now that specialize in consolidating the Lingayat and tribal votes which are greater focused withinside the Chamarajanagar district. “The votes from the tribal network had been break up among the Congress and the BJP. There is a proper-wing tilt the various more youthful era of the Vokkaliga network. The outreach with the aid of using nearby BJP leaders appearance exquisite and they’re in advance of all political parties,” delivered a political analyst with the Congress.
The Congress is now banking on Siddaramaiah and its Karnataka Pradesh Committee’s running president R Dhruvanarayan, who misplaced the 2019 Lok Sabha election with the aid of using a whisker to BJP’s V Srinivas Prasad.
The Congress had in January released a march – Prajadhwani Yatra – which traversed throughout the Mysuru-Chamarajanagar-Mandya belt, highlighting the BJP is focused on the development of temples as opposed to running on pro-improvement schemes.
The BJP currently introduced that it’d assemble a Ram temple in Ramanagara district withinside the place. Inspired with the aid of using Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Karnataka, the Prajadhwani Yatra is headed with the aid of using teams – one with the aid of using Siddaramaiah who’s presently travelling meeting constituencies in north Karnataka and some other group with the aid of using DK Shivakumar who has been focusing at the southern districts.
“With BJP sidelining BS Yediyurappa, the simplest USP for the birthday birthday celebration proper now could be to capitalise on their critical leaders’ go to and with the aid of using taking benefit of V Sommanna – the sitting MLA and Minister for Housing who has a massive Lingayat following. In Chamarajanagar, when you have money, ballot fortunes can alternate and it is seen with the BJP,” stated a Congress political observer. Mysuru BJP MP Pratap Simha stated the BJP is in a good spot due to the fact they haven’t any large face withinside the antique Mysuru place which has placed them at the lower back foot
“BJP turned into in no way there withinside the Old Mysuru Region. We had been in no way capable of make inroads in there. Since 2019 – via improvement, we’re winning. During the preceding election, BJP gained simplest sixteen of the sixty one seats. Most of the seats withinside the antique Mysuru place have long gone to the Congress and JD(S) and the BJP is attempting difficult to squeeze in. If we get at the least 25-30 seats withinside the Old Mysuru Region, we can have an absolute majority,” stated Mr Simha
“The BJP in no way had a kingdom-stage management and a massive call withinside the Old Mysuru Region. The Congress and the JDS constantly had leaders like SM Krishna, Devraj Urs, Deve Gowda however the BJP in no way had a tall chief from the region. Most of the leaders withinside the Congress and JDS had been from the Vokkaliga network. Without Vokkaligas electorate, a win is tough withinside the vintage Mysuru region. However, withinside the previous few years, some leaders from the network have joined the BJP. In the existing kingdom government, distinguished leaders from the Vokkaliga network are ministers. We also are attracting electorate with pro-improvement schemes like the imminent inauguration of the Mysuru expressway, consuming water beneathneath the Jal Jeevan mission. People are slowly tilting towards BJP due to the improvement schemes we’re offering,” he added.
The birthday birthday celebration is banking on relevant leaders and the supermegacelebrity electricity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the meeting election. Tomorrow, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will flag off the second one Yatra from Nandagarh in Belagavi. Home Minister Amit Shah will release the 0.33 and fourth yatras on Friday from Basavkalyan in Beedar district and Avathi in Devanhalli. The yatras will converge on March 25 in Davanagere with a rally to be addressed through PM Modi.
