BJP held 13 states across the country on its own and six with alliances but currently, it is ruling in eight states on its own and equal no. of states with an alliance.
NEW DELHI| On Monday the results of Jharkhand was out stating a clear win for the JMM and ally Congress. While Congress-RJD-JMM alliance won 47 seats whereas BJP finished a distant second with 25 seats. Unlike in Maharashtra or Haryana, it wasn’t even the Single-Largest Party. However, the trend seen in recent assembly elections is worrying for the BJP. Having Maharashtra slipped out of its hand and now Jharkhand, slowly and steadily BJP is losing hold over prominent states.
BJP which emerged as the single largest party in the 2019 Lok Sabha election held 13 states across the country on its own and with alliance partners in six other states. but looking at the present situation the largest party is losing its foothold. Now it is holding onto eight states on its own and an equal number of states with the alliance partners. Earlier, 70 per cent landmass was under the BJP rule but now it has shrunk to 34 per cent.
The contraction began from last year where BJP registered a defeat in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. While it lost by a small margin in Rajasthan and MP, the party suffered a humiliating defeat in Chhattisgarh. The BJP had ruled both MP and Chhattisgarh for three consecutive terms before it lost power to Congress in December 2018.
In October this year, the BJP lost power in Maharashtra after its pre-poll ally Shiv Sena broke the alliance to form the government led by Uddhav Thackerey with support from the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress.
Even in Haryana, which went to polls at the same time, BJP had fallen short of the majority mark and had to reach out to Dushyant Chautala’s JJP to form the government in the state.
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The most important part was Jammu and Kashmir, BJP was part of the ruling coalition in Jammu and Kashmir in March 2018, the state was put under Presidents’ rule after the BJP withdrew support to the PDP.
In August this year, the BJP-led central government revoked the special status of Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370 and divided the state into two Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh. Of these, only J&K is a UT with a legislature where elections are yet to happen.
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