There is no shortcut to political success, especially outside one’s political stronghold. NS Trinamool Congress I can claim ‘moral victory’ Tripura civic elections saying that he has occupied the main opposition position in no time, but Clean sweep for BJP Should come as a reality check for TMC developing national ambitions.
To be honest, the TMC think-tank never thought that it would win the civic polls, but it was more to set up ground in a new state. However, the party has set an ambitious target to oust the Congress as BJP’s major opposition party in 2024 and is entering various states with that mindset.
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But TMC must be realistic and realize that such success will not come from mere noise and propaganda in an attempt to capture the imagination of the public or by expending forces from parties which are themselves in decline. Such tactics rarely translate into electoral success.
Be it Tripura, Goa or Meghalaya, where Congress leaders have joined the TMC, there is no alternative to serious ground work and organization first. Without him or a vote-base that is convinced to overthrow the government in favor of a new entrant, hardly a party has succeeded outside its stronghold. Take for example the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has been trying to enter Punjab since 2014. It enjoyed decent success, reaching a peak in the 2017 assembly elections only to collapse and flop in the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha. Election.
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TMC and AAP have been cut from the same cloth as business leaders Mamata Banerjee And Arvind Kejriwal is the pioneer who has countered the charges of BJP in his states. But Kejriwal’s ‘magic’ has not worked outside Delhi even after seven years of efforts. The party’s long political efforts outside Delhi may eventually yield some positive results this time in Punjab and Goa – the latter being a state where the AAP is actually a more serious challenge to the BJP than the TMC in these elections. TMC may claim that it will win Goa, but it would be good to learn from you.
The constant ridicule of the Congress by TMC leaders could also be a miscalculation. Certainly weaker, the Congress, however, still remains the largest all-India opposition party with a 20% national vote share and governments in three states. The Congress wrested three states from the BJP in the 2018 assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. Unlike TMC, it has organizational strength in many states, especially the Hindi heartland. If the Congress does its job in unison, it will certainly be in a better position to challenge the BJP in 2024.
TMC’s latest takeovers, Kirti Azad, Ashok Tanwar or Pavan Varma, could bring little dividends for the party in their states as they failed to do the same for the parties they were with. Tanwar, in fact, is held responsible by many in the Congress for running the party on the ground in Haryana, before Hooda tried in vain to revive it at the last minute before the state elections. Azad last won elections from Bihar seven years ago and since then he has changed three parties. JD-U Rajya Sabha MP Verma was expelled by Nitish Kumar along with Prashant Kishor.
Sushmita Dev is one such leader who came with TMC with electoral base in Assam and may help the party to enter some northeastern states as well. But the TMC needs many more strong leaders in other states, as well as long-disciplined groundwork, to make a mark.
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