India, Sept. 11 -- After a stunning victory in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is determined to retain the three poll-bound States -Maharashtra, Haryana and Jharkhand - where Assembly elections are scheduled to be held later this year.
The BJP chief Amit Shah has prepared an ambitious plan to bag over 75 seats or Mission 75-plus for the polls in Haryana, Mission 65-plus for Jharkhand and Mission 220-plus for the 288-member Maharashtra Assembly.
These elections will be an acid test to see whether the BJP will be able to continue its winning streak. Why is the BJP so confident? First, these polls are being held in the backdrop of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stunning victory in May and the fact tha...