Bharat Ganrajya

You have to bribe the poor and lower class voters again to offset the loss in trader votes. This is the reality of the Indian electorate and the legacy of soc-sec who have kept the pop poor and struggling for survival. Modi likes to create assets rather than bribe but I don't see any other way for h...

Girls education schemes are available in all BJP or former BJP ruled states. I don't know whether they have it in UP and BH which are the problem states. Rest have pretty much controlled their population except one community.

This is a useless talk. What we can have is some incentives for those planning their families like tax rebate, more feebies, etc.

Add to that the loss in income from having to pay GST.

And that rise in IT will be mostly from the trading/business community even if you account for natural growth. Salaried people already paid taxes.

The only hope are the poor and lower middle class who are 70% of pop and don't care about GST, IT as their income is too low.

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BJP is winning Assam panchayat elections. Modi should go all out for the votes of poor and lower middle classes who have benefited from his schemes.

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Mort, that is unconstitutional. I am glad they appointed Kamal Nath as CM. May be Gehlot will be CM too. EXpect them to be big failures. Demo and GST should go hand in hand as the latter prevents or reduces further generation of BM. The two had to be done together to have any effect. The traders and...

He should just say what he did and humbly request for one more term to make things better. If there are loose comments by opposition he can attack them but talking about what happened in the past will no longer bring votes.

It will keep core voters from not voting in 2019. It will bring chaos in the ranks of sec-soc as they will be dammed if they oppose it (Hindus) and dammed if they support it (Muslims). Will create chaos in their ranks and unmask parading RG as a Hindu.

That is old news and will no longer bring votes.

Also stop attacking Cong and RG for what happened for last 60-70 years. This is not 2014. People want to know what you have done and what more you will do. What goodies you will give.

Spoke to two guys from RJ and they confirm my analysis. The trading class who are a voting block for BJP for decades voted Cong or NOTA due to GST and demo. Apparently the entire black money driven informal economic chain has been broken. They are angry but I wonder why they voted Modi in 2014 when ...

These are disgruntled voters who chose NOTA rather than vote Congress. With the right kind of messaging, persuasion and carrots they can be made to vote in 2019.

Talk to Babulal Marandi in JH to get an alliance.

Good that this happened now. Otherwise complacency would have set in for 2019 and the ground waves would have been missed. This gives a chance to calibrate and restrategise.

Patch up with SS in MH, give Patels reservation in GJ, align with Ajit Jogi in CG (he took part of the tribal vote).

They should also appoint a crack team for 2019 just like they did for 2014. I am sure bright ideas will come out of these on how to package the message. The messaging is now sounding similar and repetitive. Stop all talk about demo and GST.

There is a reasonable chance that Modi will find re-election tough. In such a situation I would go for a slog. Bring as many core issues forward as possible. At least even if you loose you will have some achievements other than handing over India to the Congress for 15 years. This is not the time to...

Also the poor have not changed their vote from Cong to BJP even after all freebies. So net vote of BJP has reduced. Target your core voters first.

No it is not Jaitley. Basically there has been an increase of 30-35 million people who are now paying tax. If average size of family is 4-5 that means about 120-170 million people are affected. Plus traders and small business profit has taken a hit after GST. Earlier they were cheating on tax. These...

They have lost in both urban and rural areas.

They are basically taking all the freebies and then voting for Cong. Also RSS may not have mobilized substantially over differences on RJB.

This is a very serious setback. I am specially surprised by CG. My take is that GST and demo has not gone down well with that section of BJP voters who never paid taxes or had legit business. We have seen some example of that on BRF/BGR. My take would be to stop talking about these and go back to co...