: BJP faces defections, desertions ahead of 2024 general elections #IndiaNEWS #India Hyderabad: From alliance partners to its party leaders and cadre, the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be losing

BJP faces defections, desertions ahead of 2024 general elections #IndiaNEWS #India
Hyderabad: From alliance partners to its party leaders and cadre, the Bharatiya Janata Party appears to be losing them all, left, right and centre.
After being ignored and backstabbed repeatedly for long, Pawan Kalyans Jana Sena Party in Andhra Pradesh was the latest to abandon the saffron party. Several senior leaders like K Swamy Goud and Dasoju Sravan too quit the BJP to join the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (now Bharat Rashtra Samithi) in Telangana.
All this is happening less than 20 months from the general elections in 2024 when the BJP is keen to retain the power at the Centre by winning more seats in the South Indian States. There is evidently a growing frustration among NDA constituent parties and within the party as well, recent developments show.
Pawan Kalyan was miffed over the BJPs lack of enthusiasm to work with his party and had already indicated that there was a “gap??? between the two parties lately. Though the Andhra Pradesh BJP leaders resorted to some firefighting measures, BJP national executive member Kanna Lakshminarayana admitted that the relationship has not been well for quite some time, as the BJP State leadership failed in coordinating with the JSP chief.
Though both TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu and BJP Andhra Pradesh chief Somu Veerraju came to extend their support to him after the Visakhapatnam arrests, Pawan Kalyan chose to address a joint press conference with Naidu rather than Veerraju. Surprisingly, Pawan Kalyan had even extended his best wishes to BJP senior leader in Telangana Dasoju Sravan who quit the party to join TRS (BRS).
Terming Sravan as his dear friend who is also a dynamic and visionary leader, the JSP president hoped that everyone will realise the formers true potential. Along with Sravan, Telangana State Council former chairman K Swamy Goud too quit the BJP and joined the TRS (BRS).
Alliance partners deserting the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is nothing new. When Narendra Modi formed his first government in 2014, the BJP-led NDA had the support of around two dozen political parties.
But within a few years, at least half of them including major alliance partners like Janata Dal (United), Shiromani Akali Dal, Telugu Desam, Shiv Sena and Jammu Kashmir People Democratic Party among others, deserted him.
In the last few months after Nitish Kumars JD(U) severed ties with the BJP, there appears to be fissures between NDA partners BJP and Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) in Haryana.
Trouble is also brewing in Tripura where at least six MLAs from BJPs alliance parties including Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura have resigned in the last one year. Similar cracks are appearing in the NDA alliance partners in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh as well.

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