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Hoping to thrust connected a imaginable mobilisation of Ezhava votes successful the State, the Bharath Dharma Jana Sena (BDJS), is engaged successful hard bargaining with the BJP for much seats to contention successful the upcoming civic polls.
However, its mediocre electoral show successful the past predetermination has undercut its bargaining capacity.
BDJS leaders consciousness that the enactment shall beryllium fixed its owed recognition for the awesome show of galore BJP candidates successful the 2024 wide predetermination successful the State, particularly successful constituencies specified arsenic Alappuzha, which has a sizable fig of voters belonging to the Ezhava community.
Though BJP person Shobha Surendran was relegated to the 3rd presumption successful Alappuzha, she bagged 2,99,648, marking a important leap successful the ballot stock of the party. A ample fig of assemblage votes were polled successful favour of Ms. Surendran, they argue.
The party, they claim, was palmy successful swaying distant the assemblage votes successful favour of the BJP candidates successful galore constituencies, which different would person been polled successful favour of its opponents.
“The enactment meetings precocious organised by the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana (SNDP) Yogam, demanding much practice for assemblage members successful the civic bodies, person energised the assemblage votes.
The enactment stands to payment from the run arsenic the enactment members and leaders mostly beryllium to the Ezhava community. Nearly 95% of the enactment leaders are besides office-bearers of assorted SNDP unions,” says K. Padmakumar, State vice-President of the enactment and the National Democratic Alliance.
However, respective enactment leaders caregiver a grouse that the BJP had sidelined the organisation portion sharing the seats among the beforehand partners.
The BJP took distant the winnable seats successful galore section bodies and near the remainder for the BDJS. Though the enactment had contested 19 seats successful the Kochi Corporation past time, it had to beryllium contended with 10 seats with small electoral prospects this time.
The NDA’s sharing of seats remains inconclusive successful galore districts connected relationship of the unjustifiable attack of the BJP, says a BDJS functionary.
Interestingly, the mediocre show of the enactment successful the 2020 polls has taken distant its bargaining powerfulness successful astir of the districts. Though the enactment had fielded candidates successful astir 1,000 seats successful assorted section bodies crossed the State past time, lone a fistful romped home.
The enactment has nary elected representatives successful astir civic bodies and districts of the State, which is considered an denotation of its mediocre electoral influence. However, the enactment leaders are hopeful that the concern volition amended this time.
Commenting connected the developments, enactment president Thushar Vellappally says a wide representation of the fig of seats contested by the enactment volition beryllium known successful a mates of days arsenic negotiations are progressing.
