Assembly Election 2018: BJP planning to drop half of its current MLA's in Rajasthan to counter high anti-incumbency
The BJP is facing a tough contest in the Rajasthan assembly elections, as CM Vashundhra Raje’s government will be tested upon high anti-incumbency.
The party has decided to field new faces in the upcoming polls where the discontent against the incumbent MLA’s is seen across the state.
Sources have revealed in a report published in The Times of India that “80-100 of the 160 sitting MLAs might be replaced” in what could arguably be the biggest-ever political culling of incumbent MLAs of any party ahead of elections.
As per the report, the move is also to send message to the lower cadre and party workers or MLA’s of other states that they might also get dropped, depending upon the performance and the feedback from the citizens and state party leadership.
The feedback is being collected from traditional sources and channels as well as from the PM Narendra Modi’s Namo app.
The BJP won 160 of the 200 seats in the 2013 state assembly elections while the Congress managed a mere 25.
A senior BJP leader told The Economic Times that “There is growing dissent against senior ministers such as home minister Gulab Chand Kataria, public health engineering department minister Surendra Goyal, public works department minister Yunus Khan and Devasthan minister Raj Kumar Rinwa. There are indications that around six cabinet ministers will get the axe.”
Several party’s are also planning for the Lok Sabha elections side by side and they are pretty well aware about the spill-over effect of the State election can have tremendous outcome in the general elections result.
