BJP started 2018 with Mission-180 for the Assembly polls but it lost the by-elections in Alwar and Ajmer Lok Sabha seats and Mandalgarh Assembly seat in January 2018.
BJP started the year 2018 with dream of winning state Assembly elections and with a resolution of forming government again. However, by end of the year, the saffron party was in for big disappointment.
BJP started 2018 with Mission-180 for the Assembly polls but it lost the by-elections in Alwar and Ajmer Lok Sabha seats and Mandalgarh Assembly seat in January 2018. It had faced defeat in all 17 Assembly constituencies in the by-elections including 16 Assembly seats of Alwar and Ajmer Lok Sabha seats.
After this defeat, the party started preparations for 2018 Assembly elections while making organisational changes. To win Assembly polls, it formed 21-member booth committees on more than 51,000 polling booths across the state. In addition, the Vistaraks and Panna Praukhs were appointed in each Assembly area.
Due to the defeat in by-elections, the then BJP state president Ashok Parnami had to quit. The BJP’s top leadership had asked for Parnami’s resignation on April 16. After this, Union minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat’s name came up in the discussion for the new chief of the state unit of the saffron party. The Central leadership wanted to make Shekhawat the state president but the then chief minister Vasundhara Raje was not in favour of making Shekhawat as the state president. This led to a controversy over the name of new state president in the BJP. The issue became a power game between the Central leadership and Raje. Due to Raje’s pressure, 74 days later the state BJP got a new state president. Rajya Sabha MP Madan Lal Saini was made the BJP state president in July. This controversy spoiled the party’s image in the state and also the party’s preparations for Assembly elections were affected. BJP National President Amit Shah came on a two-day tour to Jaipur and started campaigning for the Assembly elections. PM Narendra Modi, Shah and others came to campaign in Rajasthan. Despite this, the BJP failed to form government. From winning 163 seats in the 2013 Assembly elections the party was reduced to just 73 seats in 2018.
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