Even more critical, an experienced politician of India like Sharad Pawar opined recently that by practicing “temple politics, “the BJP has lost the recent Lok Sabha election in Ayodhya.
While addressing a trader’s meeting in Baramati, the Nationalist Congress Party or NCP spokesman dwelt on how the Bharatiya Janata Party or BJP was rendered from more than 300 in the previous Lok Sabha to a mere 240 in the current House. Pawar attributed this decline, to a certain extent, to the verdict delivered by the voters of Uttar Pradesh – the state that houses the Ayodhya constituency.
However, the outcome indicates that their 60 seats were slashed. Uttar Pradesh plays a significant role in this truncation since the state’s residents delivered a different verdict, quipped Pawar.
The SP candidate for Faizabad, Awadhesh Prasad, with the seat that also includes the temple town of Ayodhya, stunningly defeated the sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh.
Even Pawar, a leader of the crucial INDIA bloc, was not happy with the people of Ayodhya for taking ‘a different stand’ to set right the ‘politics of temple’ floated by the BJP. He expanded his point by stating that the “collective conscience” of the people means that the democracy in the country is still preserved.
Consequently, Pawar’s observations also point out the shift in the political context wherein the voter has become demanding and contestational to the briefing of political parties.
