![]() This plan pivoted on: a decision to invest more political capital than any previous national administration in states with little national electoral heft the presence and popularity of the PM ideological flexibility and political pragmatism : and the co-option of leaders with strong local following. The same plan marked its moment of consolidation in 2023, where despite significant local problems and anti-incumbency, it managed to retain its hold over these states. In many ways, this episode encapsulated the BJP’s gameplan in the North-East, one that first came to fruition in 2018 – with a clear win over the formidable Left in Tripura, the power-grab in Manipur, and the formation of alliances in Meghalaya and Nagaland. The scholar Arkotong Longkumer notes that this was not a disjointed outreach, but a calibrated strategy that thrust a figure that had long endured in the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) imagination of the North-East into the political limelight, attempting to springboard the Sangh’s grassroots work into electoral heft in a region where the BJP had little footprint on the ground, and even less ideological traction.ĪLSO READ: PM Modi hails Tripura, Nagaland wins, says ‘Northeast is neither far…’ That year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the birth centenary celebrations of the leader he called Rani Maa, making public his government’s push in the North-East and building on the goodwill generated by his three-day tour to the region in the winter of 2014. ![]()
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