After successfully testing the strategy of going with a new Chief Minister’s face for the state assembly elections, the BJP once again implemented it in Tripura. On Saturday, Biplab Deb, the first CM of the saffron party in the state, resigned from the post to make room for Dr Manik Saha.
Rajya Sabha MP Saha is the state BJP president and will now face the challenge of keeping all the parties together ahead of the assembly elections due in March 2023. The transition seemed smooth and regimental in the usual BJP style. The party’s move is a clear attempt to quell the anti-incumbency wave and dissent within its ranks in the state unit.
In the legislature party meeting, Saha was elected as the new leader. Deb, who met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi a few days ago, congratulated his successor on Twitter and said it was his pleasure to serve the “people of Tripura”, and he was “grateful” for the party. Occasion.
Ahead of the assembly elections, BJP has implemented its “CM-Change Formula” in Uttarakhand, which worked for them. So, they expect the same thing to happen in Tripura. The party has changed five CMs since 2019, including in Gujarat and Karnataka.
Saha is the fourth former Congress leader from the Northeast to become chief minister in the region after joining the BJP, a clear indication that a leader’s electoral value is paramount. Himanta Biswa Sarma of Assam, Pema Khandu in Arunachal Pradesh and N Biren Singh in Manipur are the first other CMs with the Congress.
What and why is BJP’s formula
Political analysts said the BJP’s move to change the chief minister, while being criticized by the opposition for doing so, shows that the party analyzes its ground response and is always ready to address it. A BJP leader said broadly three factors work behind such changes in the last two to three years: “delivery on the ground, keeping the organization in good humour, and the popularity of the leader”.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014, endorsed a long rope for chief ministers, but after the BJP’s defeat in the Jharkhand assembly elections to CM Raghubar Das’ seat, the party was forced to change leadership. realized the need. ,
The BJP has made a return to more traditional politics with regard to political fault lines such as caste identity in its most recent changes in states ruled by the central government or the party. Taking forward the urge to experiment in the background, it also gave preference to leaders who had started their careers in other political organizations.
In September 2021, the BJP replaced Vijay Rupani with Bhupendra Patel, who was from the numerically important Patel community, as the CM of Gujarat. While changing the CM in Karnataka, the party appointed another Lingayat leader Basavaraj S Bommai in place of Lingayat stalwart BS Yediyurappa. In Uttarakhand, it replaced two Thakur CMs with another Thakur. In Assam, the BJP replaced its five-year-old CM Sarbananda Sonowal with Himanta Biswa Sarma.
(with PTI inputs)
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