Narendra Modi-Amit Shah combination had shown India and the world what ‘surgical strikes’ are.
These surgical strikes have fetched huge political dividends for BJP.
After bringing BJP to power at the Centre in 2014, Modi started his ‘surgical strike’ on black money by announcing ‘demonetisation’ all of a sudden in October 2016.
It was followed by ‘surgical strikes’ on Pakistan in February 2019, just before Lok Sabha polls in May 2019.
BJP retained power with a landslide victory in May 2019 polls on the back of these surgical strikes.
In between, Modi-Amit duo also launched ‘political surgical’ strikes to grab power in different states despite not getting the required majority to form the government.
Karnataka was the classic example of ‘political surgical strike’ which dethroned the Congress-JDS government and brought the BJP government to power.
The mother of all political surgical strikes is the recent Maharashtra episode where the surgical strike was done midnight demolishing Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP alliance and bringing revolt in NCP to help BJP to form the government with the help of rebel NCP MLAs. All this happened at the stroke of midnight.
The Maha episode has fuelled speculations of BJP undertaking ‘political surgical strikes’ in the Telugu States to dethrone TRS government in Telangana and YSRCP government in Andhra Pradesh by engineering defections, splits, revolts in TRS and YSRCP.
Telangana BJP president Dr K Laxman already threw hints on political surgical strikes in Telangana in the coming days by stating that to fulfill the aspirations of people, the BJP will undertake political surgical strikes to oust TRS from power.
BJP wants to increase its hold on South India by weakening regional parties.
After wresting power in Karnataka in the South, the BJP has set his eyes on AP and Telangana.
So, TRS and YSRCP, beware of BJP’s political surgical strikes.
