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BJP eyeing 2024: After losing grip in West Bengal, party focusing to expand in South

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Last year, even after trying its best, the Bharatiya Janata Party had lost the West Bengal assembly elections, and the Trinamool Congress won over 210 assembly seats, with BJP shrinking below 80. Though the saffron claimed that despite losing, its performance was excellent, as in 2016, the party was able to win just 3 seats. But, the political analysts and even the strategists of the BJP know pretty well that West Bengal election results are a big jolt to BJP, as in 2019, the saffron party, for the first time ever, won 18 Lok Sabha seats in the state, leading in around 126 assembly constituencies, and gave a tough fight to TMC - which was able to win 22 Lok Sabha seats. So, if compared to the 2019 results, when the BJP was leading in 126 assemblies, its performance worsened in the state elections. Since after losing the assembly elections in West Bengal, the BJP has been continuously facing defections. Some of the strong leaders who joined the BJP after 2014, went back to t

1984 - An Election To Be Remembered: Arjun Singh's Strategy And Atal's Defeat Against Madhavrao Scindia From Gwalior

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The Congress party is going through its hardest phase currently, but there was a time when the grand-old-party used to have several political "Chanakyas" in its core team. One of those sharp politicians was Arjun Singh, former union minister and Ex-CM of Madhya Pradesh. Belonging to Vindhya region of MP, Arjun Singh had played a vital role in not only the state but the national level politics of the Congress party.  In 1984, after the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination, her younger son Rajiv Gandhi, who was a pilot by profession, was made the Prime Minister of India in October, and the Lok Sabha polls were to be held in December. Though there was a wave in favour of the grand-old-party due to the sympathy for former PM late Indira Gandhi, the Congress party was facing a tough fight in some particular parliamentary constituencies from the BJP, which was formed in 1980 and was contesting in Lok Sabha elections for the first time. This was the time