Loksabha Election 2024: On Friday (June 23), a grand gathering of opposition events befell in Bihar’s capital Patna, through which the technique to take away PM Modi from energy in 2024 was brainstormed. The one agenda of this assembly, which was known as by Nitish Kumar, was to overlook all of the variations and produce the completely different events collectively for 2024. How profitable this mission was, it will likely be recognized sooner or later, however even earlier than this, the opposition has united in opposition to PM Modi and BJP a number of occasions. Let’s examine what occurred then.
2017 UP Meeting Elections
In the Modi wave of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP had gained a one-sided victory in Uttar Pradesh. After this, meeting elections had been held within the state in 2017. At the moment there was a Samajwadi Occasion authorities within the state below the management of Akhilesh Yadav. Akhilesh Yadav made an alliance with the Congress to cease the impact of the Modi wave within the meeting elections and contested the elections collectively however failed. Not solely did the BJP win the state, however it was capable of single-handedly seize greater than 300 seats within the 403-member meeting. BJP together with its allies gained 324 seats.
UP- 2019 Lok Sabha Elections
The large victory of the BJP in 2017 created an enormous undercurrent within the politics of Uttar Pradesh, the impact of which was mirrored within the Lok Sabha elections held two years later. Samajwadi Occasion and Bahujan Samaj Occasion contested collectively on this election. The 2 events had been collectively for the primary time after the 1995 visitor home incident however nonetheless didn’t cease the BJP. BJP gained 62 out of 80 Lok Sabha seats within the state. Samajwadi Occasion and BSP received a complete of 15 seats, through which Samajwadi Occasion received solely 5 seats and BSP received 10 seats.
2015 Bihar Meeting Elections
After coming to energy on the Middle in 2014, below the management of PM Modi, BJP’s victory chariot was shifting from one state to a different. Throughout this, the meeting elections got here in 2015, the place a singular experiment was carried out to cease the BJP. Nitish Kumar and Lalu Prasad Yadav, who’re bitter opponents of one another within the state, got here collectively. JDU-RJD and Congress contested the elections collectively, through which BJP was defeated. The Grand Alliance authorities was fashioned within the state.
Karnataka – 2019 Lok Sabha Elections
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, an experiment befell in Karnataka, much like Uttar Pradesh, the place the Congress and the Janata Dal Secular (JDS) contested collectively. A yr earlier than this, each the events had fashioned a coalition authorities after the meeting elections. In 2019, each the events determined to kind an alliance earlier than the elections however the outcomes weren’t beneficial. BJP gained 25 out of 28 seats within the state whereas Congress and JDS received just one seat every.
2022 UP Meeting Election
After the setbacks in 2017 and 2019, as soon as once more in 2022, there was an alliance to defeat the BJP in UP. This time the Samajwadi Occasion contested the meeting elections along with Jayant Chaudhary’s RLD, Om Prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Occasion and others. The alliance was new however the end result was no completely different from final time. BJP as soon as once more gained and fashioned the federal government.
2019 Jharkhand Meeting Election
Inspired by the success of Bihar, in 2019, a Grand Alliance was experimented within the neighboring state of Jharkhand as nicely. Shibu Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Congress and RJD contested the meeting elections collectively. Like Bihar, the Grand Alliance issue was profitable in Jharkhand as nicely and the BJP was defeated.
The energy of the united opposition in Patna
Now let’s take a look in entrance of BJP and know the energy of united opposition in Patna. At current BJP has 301 MPs in Lok Sabha and 93 in Rajya Sabha. Together with this, there’s BJP-led NDA authorities in 16 states.
The opposition events concerned within the Patna assembly have a complete of 140 MPs within the Lok Sabha, whereas the Rajya Sabha has 93 members. Together with this, there are governments of the events gathered right here in 11 states. One factor is to be famous that the ruling events of Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh didn’t take part on this assembly.
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