Non-BJP Parties Targeting The Presidential Election?

Why has the opposition gone hyperactive in its efforts to form a front promising Swarna Bharat and BJP-mukt Bharat? Is the first fight going to be in the Presidential election?

The non-BJP parties are strongly feeling that the BJP would face a severe drubbing in the assembly elections to the 5 states under progress.

According to them, this would alter the strength of BJP v/s Opposition in Rajya Sabha, which could adversely impact the elections to the post of President of India, which is scheduled to be held in June or July. The opposition parties feel that BJP may not get more than 150 seats in the UP Assembly which has 403 seats.

If the BJP fails to come to power in at least 3 out of 5 states, including UP. If this happens, it would give a boost to the moves of the anti-BJP parties to form a new front. In this context, the election results of UP and Uttarakhand assume importance.

As far as the value of votes is concerned, UP has the highest number of votes, approximately 83,824 followed by Maharashtra and West Bengal.

Any reduction of seats will put the game in the opposition camp and if the CM of different regional parties join hands and put a joint candidate, the BJP may find it difficult to get its nominee elected unless there is division in the opposition camp or they are able to identify candidates like Abdul Kalam or Pratibha Patil.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao and Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray are keen to expand their footprints at the national level.