Sangh backs pivot PM Modi to return to power

New Delhi: In the face of an increasingly hostile Rahul Gandhi, the RSS continues to bank on Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the pivot to stay in power for the next five years. With Modi remaining BJP’s single biggest vote catcher, it is an unequivocal thumbs-up for him from the Sangh.

As such the Sangh remains steadfast in its commitment to providing the BJP manpower for micro electioneering, a parallel setup to manage all the constituencies across the country.

From ‘Prantcharaks’ to ‘Zilla Karwas’, they are coordinating with local units of the Bharatiya Janata Party for door-to-door campaigning. Bringing the voter to the poll booth is the simple strategy as the BJP ‘karyakartas’ and the RSS foot soldiers work in tendem.

Connecting with the voters directly, involvement in bringing them to the booth is the priority. Voter contact and polling booth management are core areas. This mass of legionnaires is the grassroots army that supports the leadership. BJP President Amit Shah has perfected this into an art form. It is evident that the Sangh is backing the Prime Minister to the hilt, he is their go-to man for the 2019 polls.

Now that the Congress has realized that the 2,20,000 polling booths across the country are what everyone is fighting for, they too have fine-tuned their new strategy to focus on workers and voters and ensuring that they dovetail. Sangh insiders also reckon that with the debasement of the political discourse with both sides adopting polarising attitudes and positions, Congress president Rahul Gandhi is attacking the Sangh openly and brazenly, even as Modi is targeting the dynasty. The shrill nature of this visceral hatred is acting as a divisive agent and the Sangh, which is confident that Modi will return to power, doesn’t want any mishaps along the way.

Pollsters and pundits are already predicting that the BJP will fall short of a simple majority on its own and despite the ratcheting up of the volume on the convergence between hyper nationalism over national security and Hindu machismo, the BJP has over-promised and under delivered. As such they have moved all their muscle and firepower behind Modi and the BJP.

The Congress is gnawing away at economic issue – ‘notebandi’, farm distress, jobs and ‘Gabbar Singh Tax’ – as also corruption over Rafale. Despite that Modi's own charisma and equity are relatively intact and the Sangh would want him to lead the BJP to power for a second full term, something that the BJP has never done in the past. (IANS)

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