The dates for the Assembly polls in the States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram are yet to be announced but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public rallies and meetings have already set the contours of the BJP election campaign.
In the three States of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, it has been made quite clear in words and deeds by the national leadership of the BJP that there will be no projection of a single face in the party’s campaign. The second list of candidates released by the BJP for Madhya Pradesh, fielding seven sitting MPs — three of whom are Union Ministers, makes the message clear that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan was not seen as the rallying force for the party in the State.
While addressing a rally at Chittorgarh in Rajasthan on Monday, Mr. Modi had declared, “We have only one face: the lotus.”
