The Bharatiya Janata Party’s plank for the upcoming elections to five State Assemblies will be ‘good governance versus bad governance.’
The party is hoping the ‘anti-incumbency wave’ in Rajasthan and Delhi will help it return to power, while ‘good performance’ in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will help to retain it .
The party will field candidates in all the seats of Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, while it will contest a majority of seats in Mizoram, said Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, BJP Vice-President and party in-charge of the Central Election Management Cell.
He said the Central Election Committee chaired by party president Rajnath Singh has already started the selection process of candidates in the five States.
The party’s Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, will have a say in the selection of candidates and the campaign. He will be BJP’s star campaigner in all the five States.
Naqvi said the Delhi and Rajasthan Governments, led by the Congress, were examples of “bad governance and corruption”. “Despite the economic packages of the Union Government, these States were engaged in looting public money,” he said, maintaining that corruption and bad governance would be the focus of the party’s campaign in these two States.
In the previous Assembly elections, the BJP bagged 143 seats and the Congress 70 in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly. In Rajasthan, the saffron party got 70 seats, while the Congress defeated it by bagging 96 seats in the 200-seat Assembly. The Raman Singh Government has 50 seats in the 90-member Chhattisgarh Assembly, while Congress has 38 members . In Delhi , where Congress’s Sheila Dikshit has completed her third term, out of the 70 seats, the BJP has 23 seats.