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Headline : BJP dominance squeezes Opposition, on Gujarat street, refrain once again is for ‘jaisa chal raha hai’

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Come to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state, which the BJP swept in the last two Lok Sabha elections, winning 26 out of 26 seats, and in which a BJP government has ruled uninterrupted since 1998, to get a glimpse of what total dominance looks like, even and especially when it is fraying at the edges. Winning all 26 seats again is not the BJP’s stated goal this time — the party is striking a bigger and bolder posture in its Gujarat showcase. It says it will win every seat here — the state goes to polls in Phase 3 on May 7 — by a margin of 5 lakh votes.

Come to Surat in this election, where the BJP candidate Mukesh Dalal has just got elected unopposed — after the nomination papers of the Congress candidate were cancelled because of alleged discrepancies in proposers’ signatures, and amid allegations of kidnapping, the rest of the candidates stood down subsequently — to see the “Opposition-mukt” polity of the BJP’s national dream.

Surat may not be an incidental setting for the contest that turned into a no-contest. It is the bastion of BJP president C R Paatil, a third-term MP from the adjoining constituency of Navsari, known not to conduct a campaign as it is defined conventionally.

Paatil makes a point of not asking voters for their vote, takes pride in not addressing election sabhas or meetings. No hoardings or posters are put up in his name — because, it is said, he presides over a well-honed system of election “micro-management”, in which the public outreach is micro-data-driven, below the surface, silent and systematic.

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