Election results: BJP’s core agenda gets boost with Mahayuti’s heavy win | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The Congress could not have imagined a drubbing like in Maharashtra, where the MVA won only 46 seats – 10 less than the INDIA bloc’s tally in Jharkhand, where the assembly was less than a third the size of the western state amounts to . The Congress’s weakness in head-to-head battles with the BJP has also been highlighted once again.
Just six months after BJP’s LS was reversed in Maharashtra, the party will interpret its best-ever result in the state as a reaffirmation of Prime Minister Modi’s political style. His authority, after a win in Haryana and a sweep in Maharashtra, has now all but been restored after the blow that followed the LS results. In his post-victory speech, Modi made it clear that he would focus on ‘development’ as well as Hindutva issues and the ‘virasat’ (heritage) platform.
A charged up BJP will push its plans more aggressively on UCC and one nation, one election. Passing the ONOE law will be easier after two state victories.

Economic policy initiatives such as raising the ceiling on foreign direct investment in the insurance sector to 100% will be politically safer after the BJP’s landslide victory in Maharashtra.
Key government officials are optimistic that the bill can be presented to Parliament during the upcoming winter session. On caste census, which only a few months ago looked like a major opposition strategy, the BJP, which carried out electorally profitable social engineering in Haryana and Maharashtra, now has the luxury of not being forced into it for fear of a recoil.
Maharashtra’s victory is so overwhelming that BJP has won the optics game despite losing in smaller and politically less crucial Jharkhand. But even with that loss, the BJP’s vote share is close to that of the JMM-led INDIA alliance. The talk about the declining appeal of the party and Modi will now diminish.
The other big political message was that Rahul Gandhi’s accusations of crony capitalism against the BJP are not an issue that voters care about. The Adani factor was stepped up by MVA in Maharashtra. But ordinary citizens have once again proven that a degree of economic security, even through government support, is much more important to them than the accusations of which rich industrialist is working with which party.
The Congress, after successive losses in Haryana and Maharashtra, has all but lost the leading status it had acquired among the opposition parties following the improved LS performance. Alliance partners will again be more aggressive in negotiations and less willing to follow agendas unilaterally set by Congress.
This will be especially the case when it comes to Congress’ opposition to the BJP’s future Hindutva agenda, be it the Uniform Civil Code or the passage of the Waqf Reform Act. Modi was noted in his post-victory speech when he said the Constitution did not support a waqf law.