Lucknow:The Bhartiya Janta Party is reviewing its performance in the recently concluded assembly polls in five states, especially the politically significant Uttar Pradesh, which it won with a clear majority, with an eye on the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, party sources said.
While the Yogi Adityanath government broke the anti-incumbency jinx by retaining power in 36 years of the UP election history, the party lost nearly 60 seats as compared to the 2017 assembly elections winning 255 seats against 325 in 2017, a statistics that must be concerning the party leadership. The BJP is also set to form governments in Goa, Uttarakhand and Manipur while the AAP formed the maiden government in Punjab.
Sources said that the BJP is engaged in the review and analysis of the elections, especially regarding the results of the Uttar Pradesh elections.
According to sources, a lot of analysis and brainstorming has been done in different meetings over the results and the new cabinets in the state governments. If sources are to be believed, Dharmendra Pradhan, the in-charge of Uttar Pradesh put the complete blueprint of the results of Uttar Pradesh elections before Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a recent meeting. In the meeting four major factors- educational qualification of the winning candidate, specialisation, his/her caste and age of the candidate were discussed threadbare with the candidates categorided by the leadership accordingly, sources said.
As per sources, the educational qualification and age of candidates are being given due diligence in the new Cabinets with educated and young winning candidates likely to get coveted berths. Besides, the seats where the party's vote share increased and those where the party's vote share decreased, are also being analysed for course correction in a bid to strengthen the party in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, added the sources. If party sources are to be believed, candidates from diverse backgrounds are being considered for representation in the government.