Thread by @seshanm

#BJPOnTheBackfoot
"The BJP was not prepared for the setback in Bihar, a crucial state where the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) switched sides and joined hands with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)."

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"This sudden rhetoric and diatribe against AAP leaders can have only two reasons – you decide to make it stronger and more relevant to cut down the other opponent (in this case, the Congress in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat) or you are desperate,”

"With Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, Nitish Kumar in Bihar, K Chandrasekhar Rao and MK Stalin in the south, and Arvind Kejriwal in the north, the BJP has formidable competition from different regions."

States where @BJP4India will have a tough fight
"Tamil Nadu (39 seats) Kerala (20), Telangana (17), Andhra Pradesh (25), Bihar (40), Punjab (13), Odisha (21), and West Bengal (42) together have more than 200 seats. “The comfort zones have shrunk,”

"the silence of the top leadership on the recent order on the remission of the life sentences of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case (and the developments that followed) made them uneasy,"

“No genuine RSS leader or a member can justify it. In the ‘shakhas’, we grew up hearing the chivalry and bravery of Shivaji. We grew up hearing the stories that Shivaji never tolerated the dishonour of women."

"Women from captured territories were sent back with honour by him. No Hindu king revered in our legends disrespected women,” said a leader."

"This all happened immediately after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for respect and empowerment of ‘Nari Shakti "

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