Too Strong To Afford To Lose

Its panchayat-to-Parliament mission leaves BJP no room to quit in any state

- Bhavna Vij-Aurora

For a party with 11 crore members more than the population of many countries losing an election is not an option. Any loss would be a setback to the BJP’s aim of ushering in the “golden era” when the saffron party will rule from panchayat to Parliament, and every state in between. This spirit drives the BJP’s formidable election machinery as assembly polls draw near in Mah­arashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand. Also in Delhi, where elections are due early next year, preparations are on in full swing as the BJP plans to wrest the national capital from the Aam Aadmi Party. The first set of elections since the Narendra Modi government was reconfirmed in power with a brute majority in the Lok Sabha will