What made the BJP winner of Gujarat
and the Most Influential Party of India

In 2016, Amit Shah said that his party would have to develop a "51 percent politics" strategy to defeat electoral forces, After being appointed BJP president for the 2nd time on January 24, 2016. He now said 6 years ago that, the central point of politics had shifted from Congress to BJP. It will be "BJP versus all" or "Narendra Modi versus all" in the future, akin to "Congress versus all" or "Indira Gandhi versus all" of the past, and opponents will also join hands for political survival.

The recent Gujarat election result, where BJP first time managed to get a 52.5 percent vote share even after ruling the state for 6 consecutive terms, is a historic mandate that BJP leadership led by charismatic Prime Minister Narendra Modi, J.P. Nadda and Amit Shah were working for.

The electoral result shows how hardcore Narrative Based Campaigning, and the arduous work by the highly organized party BJP can be synergized to deliver beyond the record-breaking "51 percent" mandate. Though the Congress has won the Himachal Pradesh election, and the AAP won the MCD elections in Delhi, the BJP vote share in the hill state is only just 0.9 percent below the winning Congress party, which denotes the BJP narrowly missed Himachal Pradesh win.

Also, the party added 3 percent more votes to 39% in the Delhi municipal elections than 36% in 2017, with it having formed Govt. It gave a tough fight to the winner AAP despite carrying anti-incumbency for the past 15 years. The AAP won because it could successfully add a major chunk of Congress and Independent candidates' vote share. The BJP wins over its opponent not only because Congress has not been able to counter its narratives, especially in the entire northern India Hindi belt, but also because Congress's morale is down and the party is disorganized and fractioned like never before.

If the AAP had put the same or even small effort in Himachal as in Gujarat, it would have cut into anti-BJP votes or Congress Votes, and the results would have been more likely in BJP's favor instead of Congress's.