Rolling up sleeves before facing the voters : Ahead of the 2017 polls
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: April 19 2016 -
Preparing in advance. Apparent that the Congress, the BJP and the Left have rolled up their sleeves and are today preparing for the coming 2017 Assembly election.
Less than a year away and it is apparent that these political parties are not leaving anything to chance.
This should explain why the CPI, CPI (M), CPI (ML) Liberation, RSP and AIFB have come together to float the Left Parties Coordination Committee and embarked on the 15 day long sensitization campaign for electoral reforms.
It is along this line the BJP has been holding political conferences and highlighting the ills of the Congress Government and seeking to win the people’s confidence ahead of the elections.
The Congress too has come forward and constituted its poll committee. In short the political parties seem be gearing up for poll date in 2017.
This is about electoral politics and to be sure the people must be watching with keen interest the developments within the two major political parties, that is the BJP and the Congress.
As things stand right now, speculations are rife on who may be made the president of the State unit of the BJP.
It may be an internal matter of the BJP, but the choice of the president can have a deep impression on the prospect of the party in the coming election.
A point which would not have blown over the heads of the BJP leadership and this is where the question of who will be the next State president of the BJP becomes interesting.
Early days yet but it should be more than apparent that the BJP seems best placed to take the fight to the Congress in the coming Assembly election.
From a party which could not send a single MLA in the 2012 Assembly election, the party today has two MLAs, thanks the success of its candidates in the by election to the Thangmeiband Assembly Constituency and Thongju Assembly Constituency.
Many are of the opinion that the two MLAs, Kh Joykishan and Th Bishwajit, won the by elections due to their personal quality and not because of being BJP candidates and while this may be true to a certain extent, what stands true is that the BJP seems to be on stronger turf than before.
On the other hand, the Congress seems to have ridden over the internal dissent seen some time back with the induction of three new faces in the Council of Ministers after appointing a new president of the MPCC.
The crisis may have blown over but this may have an impact on the coming Assembly election. A point which would not have missed the eyes of the BJP members here.
So the big fight will certainly be between the Congress and the BJP and it is a sad commentary that the MPP, the oldest regional political party in the State is nowhere in the reckoning.
There is also no indication that things will improve for the MPP in the coming days.
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