Integrated pension scheme approved before assembly elections in four states, is BJP afraid of 'postal ballot'?

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New Delhi: BJP, which dreamed of crossing 400 in the Lok Sabha elections 2024, got reduced to just 240 seats. BJP had to form the government at the center with the support of NDA constituents. As soon as BJP lost many seats in the Lok Sabha elections, it came under the target of opposition parties. But BJP is very active regarding the upcoming assembly elections in four states, this time BJP does not want to leave any chance. Perhaps this is the reason why the Modi government has given the gift of pension to government employees just before the elections. The central government has approved a new pension scheme for employees. This scheme has been named Unified Pension Scheme (UPS). With this decision, government employees will get 50 percent of their salary as pension after retirement. The opposition says that the government has taken this step in view of the displeasure of government employees regarding NPS. At the same time, the government says that UPS is a better version of NPS.

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BJP's focus is on government employees

A senior BJP leader said that the Integrated Pension Scheme is going to give relief to government employees, this scheme has been brought keeping in mind the long-standing demand of pension of government employees. In fact, this year assembly elections are to be held in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra and Jharkhand. In such a situation, by approving the new pension scheme, the BJP has tried to attract the votes of government employees. Statistics show that the BJP had lost huge votes in the Lok Sabha elections due to anger and protest over the pension of government employees. In the states where elections are being held this year, the number of postal ballots received by the BJP has decreased in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections as compared to 2019. The facility of postal ballot is given to senior citizens, Divyangs as well as employees working in essential government services including defense forces personnel.

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What do the postal ballot figures in Haryana say?

This time Congress has got more votes than BJP in postal ballots in Haryana. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Congress snatched 5 seats from BJP. Along with this, the vote share of Congress has also increased in postal ballots. In 2019, BJP won all 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. At that time, BJP got 74% votes in postal ballots, while Congress got only 16% votes. In the 2024 elections, BJP got 44.26% and Congress got 48.49% postal votes. In 2019, a total of 53,689 postal ballots were cast in Haryana. In 2024, this number decreased to 51,237. Assembly elections in Haryana are to be held on October 1.

BJP suffered huge loss in Jammu and Kashmir

In Jammu and Kashmir, BJP has faced a major decline in postal ballots in 2024 as compared to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. In 2019, BJP got 69 percent postal ballots, while the Congress-National Conference alliance got only 16 percent votes. The postal ballot figures changed in the 2024 elections. This time the Congress-National Conference alliance got 38.64 percent votes, while BJP got 33.26 percent votes. Voting is to be held in Jammu and Kashmir in three phases on September 18, September 25 and October 1. A total of 53,737 postal ballots were cast in 2019. In 2019, BJP won both the Lok Sabha seats in Jammu and the seat in Ladakh, while the National Conference won all three seats in Kashmir. This year, a total of 42,867 postal ballots were cast in Jammu and Kashmir (excluding Ladakh). In the 2024 elections, the BJP retained both its Lok Sabha seats in Jammu, while the National Conference had to be content with two seats. The third seat in Kashmir was won by an independent candidate.

See the report card of Maharashtra

The figures of postal ballots in Maharashtra show how the political equations are changing. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP and Shiv Sena got a big victory in postal ballots. But in 2024, Maha Vikas Aghadi got ahead. This clearly means that the competition is going to be tough in the 2024 elections. In 2019, BJP and Shiv Sena got 54.8% of the total 2.15 lakh postal votes. At the same time, Congress and NCP got only 30.15% votes. But in 2024 the picture changed. This time Maha Vikas Aghadi got 43.72% votes in postal ballots, while BJP and its allies got only 39% votes. There can be many reasons behind this change. There has been a lot of turmoil in the politics of Maharashtra since 2019. There was a break in Shiv Sena and NCP also split into two factions. The effect of these changes is clearly visible on the results of postal ballots.

The results were different in Jharkhand

The results of postal ballots in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Jharkhand and Haryana were different. In Jharkhand, the BJP alliance got more votes, while in Haryana the Congress alliance was ahead. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Jharkhand, BJP and AJSU got 57 percent of the total 38,553 postal ballots. At the same time, the Congress, JMM, RJD and CPI (ML) alliance got 32.49 percent votes. In this election, the NDA won 12 out of 14 Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand, while the opposition won 2 seats. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the results of postal ballots in Haryana were different. Out of the total 1.69 lakh postal ballots cast in Haryana, the Congress alliance got 47 percent votes, while the BJP alliance got 42 percent votes. Assembly elections are to be held in both the states this year.

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