Chhattisgarh Elections 2018: Voters seem to approve of BJP's zero tolerance towards Maoism as party is likely to win in South Chhattisgarh

It seems that BJP will beat Congress in South Chhattisgarh in the assembly polls which happened in November The region which has 12 seats is likely to see six of the seats going to the BJP and the rest of it going to Congress. The remaining one seat will go to others.

Thus, Congress will lose three of its seats, two of which will go to BJP and one of which will go to others.

In 2013, the Congress had swept the first phase of polls on 18 seats in the Maoist-dominated districts of Bastar and Rajnandagaon, negating the Modi wave that had helped BJP win the national elections comfortably a few months later during the Lok Sabha 2014.

The results of the exit polls indicate that BJP's policy and pre-poll messaging has worked for South Chhattisgarh as the region is home to Bastar.

Bastar ia a Maoist stronghold and BJP has taken a strong stand against Maoism. PM Narendra Modi himself spoke several times against the government's action against the Naxalites.

The gain of two seats means the party's stand of zero tolerance towards Maoist terror stand has received a direct electoral seal of approval. It might even mean the party's urban naxal narrative is also receiving some traction.

During his Chhattisgarh poll campaign on November 10, while addressing the public in Jagdalpur, PM Narendra Modi said,  “The urban Maoists, who live in air conditioned homes in the cities, look clean, roam around in fancy cars and whose children study abroad, remote-control the Adivasi (tribal) children in Maoist-dominated areas. I want to ask the Congress, why it supports the urban Maoists when the government takes action against them and come to Bastar and speak against Naxalism?"

PM Modi had also labeled Congress as anti-development and that it considers Dalits, and other deprived and backward people as its vote bank.

He had thanked the people of Chhattisgarh for voting the Congress out of power, and accused it of ruining the state after its creation in 2000. “Will you forgive such people? These people will not win Chhattisgarh,” he said. “I appeal to you to ensure that BJP wins all seats in the Bastar region. If anyone else wins, it will be a blot on Bastar's dreams.”

He also said that the previous governments did not do much for the state. He said that earlier ruling parties did not eliminate unemployment, poverty and starvation,  and that the children were forced to hold the gun instead of pen. 

"Maoists set fire to schools, which is a reflection of their evil mentality," he said.

 

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