Reasons And Excuses For BJP's Loss

[G.Subramaniam]

The BJP difference between Andhra and Kerala and Karnataka

In Karnataka, the BJP affiliates ran a strenous anti-conversion and anti-jihadi campaign in dakshin kanada and later latched onto the Lingayat vote bank as a base and now gets 40% of the vote

In kerala, there is some effort but the hindu vote is split among Commies, Congress and BJP
BJP won 7% of the vote

whereas in Andhra, in 1998 it had 18% of the vote on its own
It now has just 3% of the vote

Andhra will be easier to break in than TN, thanks to less dravidianism

The first step is to start a religious movement against conversions and jihadis
without a religious base, nothing can be built