Bihar in Bharat: The growth of the BJP in Bihar

The communal polarisation the BJP achieved with the Ayodhya movement did not help the party much in the state as Lalu Prasad.

The BJP’s rise in Bihar has been slow and steady. In the first assembly poll in 1951, the Jana Sangh, the precursor to the BJP, contested 47 seats and forfeited its deposit in 44 of them. It won 1.18% of the votes polled. Three decades later, in 1980, the BJP won 21 of the 246 seats it contested, polling 8.41% of the votes.

The tally fell to 16 seats and 7.54% votes in the 1985 election. The communal polarisation the BJP achieved with the Ayodhya movement did not help the party much in the state as Lalu Prasad, whose government had stopped a rath yatra by getting L K Advani arrested, won successive elections in 1990, 1995 and 2000.

However, splits in the Mandal ranks triggered a political churn that led to the BJP forging an alliance with Nitish Kumar’s JD(U). In October 2005, the JD(U)-BJP combine won office with the BJP winning 55 seats, out of 102 it contested, with 15.65% votes. In 2010, its score went up to 91 (out of 102 seats) and vote share to 16.5%. The thrust of electoral politics had by now shifted from mere caste assertion to a broader platform of governance.

First uploaded on: 22-09-2015 at 02:22 IST

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