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From the north in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, to the east in West Bengal and down south in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh , Telangana and Goa, there is an exodus of legislators from other parties to the BJP. For the BJP, which promised better days as well as its claim to be practitioners of principled politics, the brazen attempt to destabilise duly elected governments as well as to shore up its numbers through defections does not augur well for democracy. It has also shaken BJP’s core supporters, who have been left astounded by the BJP national leadership’s gleeful embrace of the turncoats. The Congress itself is to blame because of factionalism within. In Gujarat, the poaching of five Congress MLAs last March served as a precursor of things to come. After the Lok Sabha debacle in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh(MP), the Congress leadership is on high alert after BJP’s ‘operation poaching’ progressed from Karnataka to Goa. The Kamal Nath government in MP is critically dependent on a couple of SP and BSP MLAs and a few independents. A shift in allegiance by the independents to BJP will topple the MP government. In Rajasthan, the Congress government under Gehlot depends on a dozen independents who have extended support on the condition that Gehlot should remain CM. However, trouble seems to be brewing from within the Congress and not from the BJP, as the tussle between CM Gehlot and Sachin Pilot seems to be growing. In Karnataka, after the 2018 state assembly election, no party was able to attain majority on its own. The BJP emerged as the single-largest party with 105 members, Congress with 78 and JD(S)37. The Governor invited the BJP to form the government but Yeddyurappa resigned even before facing the trust vote as he could not cobble up a majority. After a year of open bickering and bad mouthing between the coalition partners landed the BJP with a gift after 16 rebel MLAs- 13 from Congress and three from JD(S) withdrew support to the coalition and resigned. This would leave the BJP with 105 and after two independent MLAs switched sides, the party will have a very slim majority of 107 members in a house of 225 whose effective strength would also come down to 211, if the resignations of the 16 rebel MLAs are accepted. In the 2017 Goa assembly election, the Congress emerged as the single largest party with 17 seats and the BJP with 13 seats. In October 2018 two Congress MLAs defected to BJP. This was followed by the exodus of ten MLAs to BJP on July 11 leaving the Congress with only five MLAs. Three of the defectors have been rewarded. Two were made ministers and one a deputy chief minister. Just a few days after then chief minister Manohar Parrikar’s death, two MLAs from the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (two-thirds of the MGP’s three MLAs) were spirited away to the Raj Bhavan in the dead of night and sworn in as ministers after joining BJP. In Andhra Pradesh, after the Lok Sabha rout, four TDP Rajya Sabha MPs joined BJP. In Telangana, Congress suffered a blow when 12 MLAs defected to the TRS. In Bengal, the BJP continues with its ‘operation poaching’ when two Lok Sabha MPs and two MLAs of TMC joined BJP along with 50 councillors. It is ironic that the BJP’s pledge for ‘One Nation One People has turned into ‘One Nation, One Party.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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