BJP core committee lays out road plan for local body polls
A BJP insider said the Congress' 'lacklustre' showing in the Nilambur Assembly byelection had buoyed the party's hopes for a better showing in the elections that lay ahead.
He said the core committee's reading was that the Congress had failed to cash in on the 'anti-incumbency' anger against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) government fully.
Later, former BJP State president K. Surendran told a press conference that the Congress had merely held on to a traditional stronghold wrested from it by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) using an Independent candidate.
He said the voting pattern in Nilambur revealed the Opposition United Democratic Front's (UDF) inherent electoral weaknesses, which the BJP would exploit to its full advantage.
Mr. Surendran said the BJP was initially not keen on contesting the Nilambur bypoll at the fag end of the second Pinarayi Vijayan government. 'The bypoll was of scarce political or electoral consequence. Still, the BJP kept its options open,' he said.
Mr. Surendran said the core committee meeting had finalised the contours of a roadmap for emerging as a potent electoral force in the local body elections. He stated that the BJP was open to tactical alliances without compromising its core ideology or national agenda.
BJP State president Rajeev Chandrasekhar and leaders P.K. Krishnadas, V. Muraleedharan, Sobha Surendran, and M.T. Ramesh were among those present.
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