Delhi election 2015: Delhi results may impact Bihar election outcome

PURNIA: “The Aam Aadmi Party’s landslide victory in Delhi assembly elections is a wake-up call for the state BJP unit in poll-bound Bihar where the potboiler of murky political shenanigans are currently hogging the national headlines”, says a BJP supporter Shashi Sharat, and warned the party not to “burn its fingers by meddling too much in the internecine warfare in the ruling JD (U)”.
The Delhi results, which have not belied all pollsters and exit polls, have surely ripped off the face of the BJP which marshalled all kinds of forces to win the election. “If the party has suffered the most ignominious rout, it must not only take the blame squarely but, also shed off the arrogance which has gone into its head before it girds up for the Bihar poll,” says Sukumar Jha, a keen observer of political scene in Bihar.
Apprehending that the knives will soon be out against Modi-Amit Shah duo, who did not only undermined the top hierarchy in the party but arrogated too much to themselves, the party’s rank and file feel that the top leadership must also rein in the loudmouths and loose cannons in the party who are doing more damage to the party than good. “The party will have to judge and choose every word before they open their tongues in the public,” a senior BJP functionary said.
The BJP’s stunning debacle in the Delhi poll has, however, given a shot in the arm of the JD (U) and RJD, principal adversaries of the party in Bihar which is now going through a churning process. “The voters of Delhi have snubbed the BJP for its divisive agenda and its abysmal failure to deliver and fulfil its poll promises,” believes Ram Shanker Yadav in Purnia.