Modi is set to become prime minister for a record third consecutive term after winning the Lok Sabha elections. But this is the first time his party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) needs the support of regional parties to form the government. Therefore, Modi's third term cabinet will have to be made according to the thousands of demands of the partners.
The BJP, which had an absolute majority in the previous two terms, won only 240 seats out of 543 in the Lok Sabha elections this time. 272 seats are required to form the government. And the BJP-led NDA coalition won 293 seats. On the other hand, the Congress-led India Alliance won 232 seats, of which the Congress won 99 seats alone.
Narendra Modi and his new cabinet members will be sworn in tomorrow Sunday evening in a grand ceremony. He will be the first three-term prime minister after Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru.
Meanwhile, using the opportunity to put pressure on Modi, the other partners of the NDA are putting pressure on the BJP by raising the demands of several ministries. According to their conditions, will the fate of Bengal be torn apart by the full ministry? This is the question that is now raging inside the Bengal BJP. There is also a strong discussion about this in Delhi. But now no one is saying anything openly.
The four coalitions whose support is most important for the BJP to reach a majority; They are — N Chandrababu Naidu's TDP, which won 16 seats, Nitish Kumar's JDU (12), Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena (7) and Chirag Paswan's Lok Janashakti Party-Ram Vilas (5). And because of this, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena faction and Chirag Paswan's LJPO could be at the center of Modi's new cabinet.
Meanwhile, BJP won 12 seats in West Bengal in this year's Lok Sabha polls. What was 18 in nineteen. At that time two or four MPs got Union ministry in turn. After Babul Supriya who won from Asansol, John Barla of Alipurduar, Subhash Sarkar of Bankura, Nishith Pramanik of Cooch Behar and Shantanu Thakur of Bangaon got the charge of state ministers of various ministries. However, no one got full ministry.
This time the winning rate is even lower. But will there be any place in Modi's third cabinet? The winning BJP candidates are also very skeptical about this. Rumors in Delhi's political circles are that Modi's cabinet may have not a full minister, but a maximum of three-four. The list includes the winning candidate of Tamluk and former judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Manoj Tigga of Alipurduar, Jagannath Sarkar of Ranaghat, Shantanu Thakur of Bangaon. There is also the name of 'angry' Soumitra Khan. Among them, Shantanu Thakur was the previous Minister of State for Shipping.
Selection of wrong candidates, communalization of vote, panic and anger towards leadership, lack of workers at all levels, not giving sufficient time to outgoing MPs in their constituencies. In the initial post-mortem, various such reasons are coming up to the Bengal BJP leadership behind the landslide in the state in the recently concluded elections. Friday was the meeting to select the leader of NDA. Therefore, every MP appeared in Delhi on the instructions of the party. There, such various theories emerged in the preliminary analysis of an MP of Bengal BJP and one of the top leaders of the state level.
According to him, even though the candidates were selected by the All India leadership, several decisions could have been taken more thoughtfully in the selection of candidates. At the same time, it is being claimed that even in the Hindu dominated areas like Ayodhya, Rajasthan, the same picture has been seen in the state where Hindus have not supported everywhere.
On the contrary, minorities have blessed Trinamool with open arms. The state BJP also claimed that a large section of grassroots workers remained silent during the election process. In some cases, the fear of the grassroots worked, some did not work because of the anger of the early-modern and then-leaders. Trinamool has filled the vacancies due to several MPs not spending enough time in their areas.
Apart from their own failure, another reason that BJP has highlighted as the reason for defeat is 'Lakshmi Bhandar'. However, the Bengal BJP is still not giving up on this project. According to them, in the condition of the economy of the state, this thousand rupees is a big deal to run many families. On top of that, the Bengal leadership feels that the Trinamool has received wind in its wings due to the fear that this income will stop if the Trinamool does not come to power.
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