How a spate of spoilers may ruin BJP's election strategy for 2019

In the run-up to the elections, the BJP will not be able to deploy the chess moves that it was perhaps counting on

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) hopes for pulling off elections in nearly a dozen states along with the general election have been dashed. The expectations of obtaining favourable judgements on crucial poll issues from the Courts also seem increasingly futile. And the key investigative agencies of the state seem reluctant or unable to do the government’s bidding.

The pieces that the party wanted on the electoral chess-board before the election campaign are simply not falling into place.

The party’s attempt to club an early general election with a dozen state elections in February 2019 has been effectively stalled by Chief Election Commissioner