People are Ok with the drive of demonetisaton. There was no effect of demonetisation of what soever at the civic polls in Mumbai. Shiv Sena was the first one to target Modi on this crash crunch. But the people have increaed the mandate for the BJP in Mumbai. People who thought that the demonetisation could be encahsed have failed miserably.
Mumbai is a elite and mass city where people have faced the crunch of the demonetisation but they have not punished the BJP. They infact looks like have encourage the BJP. It looked as if they wnat Modi to proceed further on all fronts that the Government was thinking.
The BJP in the BMC election 2017 looks set to win 81 seats to the Shiv Sena’s 84, with none of them close to the 114 for majority. The BJP has also won eight out of ten major municipalities where elections were held this week, making it the day’s biggest gainer. Devendra Fadnavis has delivered again.
The party’s campaign for the crucial civic polls, billed as a mini-assembly election, was built completely around Mr Fadnavis, also featured in comic strips as a superhero. The Chief Minister led from the front saying that he would bear complete responsibility if the BJP fared badly in these elections but would credit the party for success.
“It’s a tight slap for those who said that the BJP will not get 40 seats in the BMC polls,” said the BJP’s Vinod Tawde, a minister in Mr Fadnavis’ government. The party’s best so far was the 31 seats it had won as the Sena’s partner last time. The Congress was number 2 that year, winning 52 seats. In this election it has been relegated to a faraway third.
Fadnavis has been credited also with the BJP’s big gains in the first part of civic elections in the state held a few months ago, mostly at the cost of the Congress and NCP in their rural Maharashtra strongholds.
