Why did BJD and BRS make a distance? Is there a new strategy in opposition or is there a new strategy?

News India Live, Digital Desk: The election for the post of Vice President of the country has once again intensified the stir in political corridors. While the ruling NDA and opposition ‘India’ alliances are face to face, some big regional parties have waged a new debate by keeping themselves separate from this election process. Biju Janata Dal (BJD) of Odisha and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) of Telangana have decided not to vote in the election. Now the question arises that what does this step of these parties mean? Is this a big dent in the unity of the opposition or is it prepared for a new political khichdi before the 2029 Lok Sabha elections?

Why BJD and BRS back back?

Both parties have given their reasons to distance away from voting. BJD says that it wants to keep equal distance from both NDA and ‘India’ alliance and its focus is only on the development of Odisha and the welfare of the people. The BJD has been doing this on many occasions before, where it avoids standing in one court on national issues.

At the same time, BRS has made the issue of farmers its shield. The party says that the central government is not giving enough urea to the farmers of Telangana, and it is boycotting the election against it. This stand of BRS can also be an attempt to present it as a supporter of farmers at the national level.

Congress raised questions, said- “This is the help of NDA”

The Congress has strongly objected to the decision of these two parties. The Congress believes that this decision to stay away from voting is directly like benefiting the NDA. The party leaders say that if the BJD and BRS are really against the BJP, then they should have supported the opposition candidate, in this way these parties are making the way to win the NDA in a way.

What is its political meaning?

Politics experts are looking at this entire development from different perspectives. Some believe that this is a well thought out strategy of regional parties to maintain their identity. They neither want to appear with the ruling party nor completely with the opposition, so that there is scope for the center to negotiate for their states.

At the same time, some analysts are also seeing it as a big weakness of opposition unity. At a time when the entire opposition is trying to surround the ruling party, then the two big parties to hold a different path in such a way show that there are many challenges left in front of the ‘India’ alliance.

However, this decision of BJD and BRS is not expected to have any significant impact on the election results, as the figures are already in favor of NDA. But it has definitely raised many new questions about future politics. It will be interesting to see what this “neutral” attitude of these parties feeds in the coming times.