Fanning the inkling to 2024.

The most awaited and crucial poll results of 2022 are out. As earlier predicted by the exit polls, the incumbent BJP, along with its allies has succeeded in reclaiming four out of five states which recently went to polls. The outcomes will determine the cause of politics at national level. With grand old party recording its yet another dismal performance, while AAP - a product of mass revolution, spearheading onto the path of launching a third front, satiating the nothingness created by former one, will subsequently facilitate major churns in national politics.

In the politically most crucial state Uttar Pradesh, BJP has once again embarked upon the road of victory by winning over 250 seats, trampling upon the future aspects of regional players, comfortably enough, to form the government. The invincible chariot of BJP has been bossing since 2014, resulting in humiliating defeat to its rivals. The state has seen for the maiden time in the last 37 years, an incumbent government returning to power.  Never has a party in power, been successful in taking over the reins of the state consecutively, since 1985.

The recently held assembly election also undid the ‘Noida jinx’ – if a chief minister visited Noida, he/she would lose the next election. During his tenure as chief minister, Yogi Adityanath made several visits to the city, bogging down the infamous old wives’ tale. The recent elevation of Yogi Adityanath in the party’s pecking order has humbly contributed to his chances of getting inducted in the party’s parliamentary board.  The unassailable duo of Modi and Shah only witnessed its influence raking up manifold. The eventuality has brightened the BJP’s ornamentation flickering onto the pathway en voyage to 2024 general election.

BSP, in pre-poll surveys, was seen as not-so-significant-sort-of-competitor given its internal bickering, has expectedly, registered its worst performance ever since its inception. Traditionally, Mayawati always banks upon the Jatavas and non-Jatavas votebank, but this time its dreary show is the evidence in itself that once long established votebank has largely steered itself away from her, choosing to back BJP. Given the solitary MLA into the house, Mayawati would have to chalk out serious strategies needed to lift the party from the dumps.

The regional player SP, though seemed taking long strides in its electoral campaign along with other smaller yet significant parties, could not lessen the winnability prospects of BJP’s. Despite of not ferrying the party over the boundary line, young Akhilesh Yadav has had his mettle proved by more than doubling up his tally from 2017, signaling to a tough battle in the years to come. In Western UP (read Jatland), SP along with RLD, has prospered in making some inroads into the traditional votebank of BJP, thus affecting a minor dent to the overwhelming support BJP had expected before the election. Somewhat, same is the scenario in Eastern UP as well, where BJP had fielded its star campaigners ranging from cine artists to prime minister himself.

Having won two seats, INC has yet again, what can be termed as burying its own graveland, contributed to its own further erosion. The prevailing mystifications over party’s leadership, the occasional presence of Rahul Gandhi at the crucial time of campaigning and internal disintegration amongst the members, are among the profound causes behind hanging of sword over party’s existence.