Why the Bihar elections are so important for the BJP ?

Reply to the initial segment of your Question "BJP does not have a decent Chief Minister applicant":- who was the essence of CM in decisions of Maharastra and Jharkhand and even in Haryana yet when they got another face as CM, individuals are not disillusioned atleast.

With respect to part of the inquiry I might want to cite an anwer given by Ratan Tata when he was asked "How would you look at between Nitish Kumar and Narendra Modi(at that time modi was c.m)?" He answered pleasantly as- - "Modi does the legislative issues of advancement while Nitish does the governmental issues of individuals" and that is reality what I think. 10 years was sufficient for a decent overseer to put Bihar on track.

Going into the 2019 general polls, JD(U)’s continuous slide in vote share are a explanation for concern for the BJP

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In the din of the by-election defeats of BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary seat by-elections in UP, the sweeping implications of the BJP-JD(U) alliance’s defeat within the Araria Lok Sabha body and Jehanabad Assembly body in province went unnoted.

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The defeat in province is a lot of worrisome for the BJP than it’s UP defeat. Why is it so? In Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary seat by-elections, SP and BSP, aligned and defeated BJP by a comparatively lower margin, whereas in Bihar’s Araria and Jehanabad, the second party defeated the alliance of 1st and third party. it's too oversimplified to state that that RJD maintained each Araria and Jehanabad and thus the BJP-JD(U)’s defeat won't have any impact within the 2019 general elections.

To understand why this defeat is worrisome for the BJP, it's vital to review the expansion of the varied political parties in province since 2005 and the way the alliance with JD(U) could become a burden for the BJP whereas facing future elections.

Bihar could be a politically active State wherever variety of smaller parties and independents enter the fray in each election. As a result, the vote share of the most political parties commonly gets restricted to concerning 70-80 per cent. Given this and also the multi-cornered contests, any party that incorporates a vote base of concerning twenty five per cent or a lot of incorporates a cheap chance of winning elections, if it may type associate degree alliance with smaller parties to require the vote share to 30-35 per cent.

There are 3 thought parties that are deciding Bihar’s political fate within the last 20 years — the RJD, the JD(U) and also the BJP. though the Congress and also the LJP are within the fray either severally or in alliance with one or a lot of of the 3 main players, their role isn't as important because the 3 dominant political parties.

The BJP, that was an overseas third party with a vote share of concerning eleven per cent in February 2005 improved its vote share to fifteen.65 per cent by Oct 2005. In 2010, it more consolidated its position by securing sixteen.46 per cent of the vote share, in alliance with the JD(U). By taking advantage of the Modi wave further as its organisational strength, the BJP emerged because the best party in Bihar by 2014 with twenty nine.9 per cent vote share. Even throughout its defeat within the 2015 Assembly elections, the BJP managed to secure twenty four.4 per cent votes, the best among all political parties, another time establishing its numero uno position.

the JD(U) has been obtaining additional share in seat allocation than its true strength thanks to political circumstances.

The reasoning is that the balloting pattern of the past elections show that the strike rate of JD(U) has been poor no matter the alliance it belongs to (Congress is another party whose strike has been poor). the opposite reasoning is that given the poor organisational machinery and inability of the JD(U) in garnering votes, the BJP can ought to provides a piggyback to JD(U) in 2019 general elections and there's honest risk that the sizable seats assigned to JD(U) might not come back to NDA kitty given its poor strike rate, even once being a part of the winning alliance.

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In this scene what are the BJP’s choices in Bihar? on condition that the BJP alliance while not JD(U) won thirty one out of the forty seats from Bihar within the 2014 general elections, and on condition that within the current circumstances the JD(U) cannot be a part of hands with the RJD, , the BJP ought to assign seats to the JD(U) in proportion to its strength within the 2019 general elections.

Once again with the worry of Maha Gathbandhan the forthcoming election are a difficult state of affairs for the BJP.