A new way to fight anti-incumbency?

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reported comment in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party “Na baithunga, na baithne dunga (I will not tolerate idleness)”, the countdown would appear to have begun for the 2019 general election that could see a large number of members of Parliament (MP) being replaced. Modi is essentially warning those who have not worked in their constituencies or have become inaccessible. Informal party reviews — and the reported comment of Manohar Parrikar after Goa Chief Minister Laxmikant Parsekar, too, lost his seat — suggest that while the BJP managed to form the government in that state, the unpopularity of its Assembly members has come as a shock, mainly because voters charged that they had not visited their constituencies after their election. BJP leaders say similar reports are coming from states like Chhattisgarh and Bihar. They say that no non-performer MP, no matter what his or her experience, age or lineage, would be renominated. No one should take his or her renomination for granted. Is this a new way to fight anti-incumbency — present a whole new set of MPs as BJP nominees?