Kusum Mahadele (now 80), who was a minister at that time, was also not given a ticket for the 2018 elections.
The issue of age and the BJP’s stance on it came to center stage in the 2019 lok sabha elections when party
patriarch LK Advani and veteran murli manohar joshi were not given tickets. At that time, the then bjp president
Amit Shah had said that the party had decided not to give lok sabha election tickets to those above 75 years of
age.
bjp got 109 seats in 2018
Political observer Jairam Shukla said that this time BJP’s move to give tickets to those above 70 years of age
could be due to the minor defeat in the 2018 elections. Despite having a higher vote share in 2018, the BJP
managed to win only 109 seats, while the congress won 114 seats, just short of the majority in the 230-member
House. Shukla recalled that ramakrishna Kusmaria (81) was not given a ticket in 2018 and had contested the
elections as an independent from Damoh and Patharia.
Shukla said, “Kusmaria got 1,133 votes in Damoh and about 13,000 votes in Patharia. bjp had lost to congress in
Damoh by just 798 votes and to Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) in Patharia by 2,205 votes. Incidentally, Kusmaria
later returned to the bjp and was made the chairman of the madhya pradesh State backward classes Commission
ahead of the 2023 elections to ensure that he does not again affect BJP’s chances of victory in Bundelkhand,
Shukla said. Do it. Shukla said, after VD Sharma (50) was made the madhya pradesh bjp chief in february 2020,
the party started building youth leadership by nominating several young faces as district presidents.
bjp has never made any official announcement
He claimed that this step of the party was not liked by the veterans and many of them stopped coming to the party
meetings chaired by their juniors. Earlier, political observer Girja shankar had told PTI that the bjp has never
made an official announcement that it will not give tickets to people above 75 years of age. He said that the
possibility of victory matters most for any party. shankar claimed, political parties experiment (in elections) and
learn from them.
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