Be it farmer agitation or protesting against the rise in fuel price, the Opposition party is dexterously planning every single move.
To wrest power from ruling BJP, which won 163 seats in 2013 assembly election and swept away Lok Sabha election winning all 25 seats, the Congress poll strategists are working day in and day out to have all the bases covered.
Be it farmer agitation or protesting against the rise in fuel price, the Opposition party is dexterously planning every single move.
The success in by-polls has given Congress the much neeed boost which they would like to translate into a bigger success during the assembly polls slated in the end of this year. To achieve the task, the party has zeroed on those seats where its candidates lost election by a slender margin. If these seats are converted by Congress this time, it won’t be a surprise if BJP comes a cropper.
In 2013, when the Modi wave swept across the nation, Congress had to face the most humiliating loss ever. In the state the party was reduced to 21 seats, almost 10 per cent of the total 200 seats. Post to the huge defeat in the last assembly poll, the Congress received another blow when not even a single candidate could become a parliamentarian.
In the years that followed, the party revived itself by registering victories in local bodies elections. They multiplied the success when they stunned all by registering a good show during bypolls in Ajmer, Alwar and Mandalgarh constituencies this year that prompted PCC Sachin Pilot to claim that party would form government with two third majority (134 seats) in the upcoming polls.
The aim is to ensure that unlike 2008 when Congress managed 96 seats and were short of majority in the house of 200, former CM Ashok Gehlot had to pull support of six BSP MLAs. The agenda of the poll strategists is to make sure that such dependence is also avoided. The aim is to convert 33 seats where margin of victory was just below 10,000 votes in 2013 election. Moreover, the margin was less than 5,000 votes on 12 seats the same year. There were over half-dozen seats where BJP registered victory with less than 10,000 vote margin against all the candidates that was 15 per cent of the 200 seats and winning them in 2018 would put Congress in a comfortable position.
But the challenge is two-pronged. The party is also faced with an uphill task of solving differences within the party to stop the BJP juggernaut. The infighting in the party is too conspicuous and if things are not addressed soon it will surely dent the party’s prospects.
Name Of Seats Lost With Lowest Margin In 2013 Election
Kushalgarh: 708
Sagwara: 640
Shahpura: 2397
Adarsh Nagar: 3803
Jaisalmer: 2867
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