DOUBLE ENGINE GOVERNMENT

Jan. 17, 2022

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has repeated the need for a ‘double engine government’ for better development of the states during his election campaigns in Tripura, Assam, West Bengal and most recently in Uttar Pradesh and Goa, where elections are scheduled during February-March 2022.

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  • The BJP has frequently used the phrase ‘double engine government’ during campaigns for various state Assembly elections.

  • The party first used the expression during the 2014 Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly elections, which took place after six months of the Lok Sabha elections: BJP leaders appealed to voters to choose the same party (BJP or NDA) in these states as the one ruling at the Centre for better development of their states.

  • The same appeal was echoed in subsequent Assembly elections.

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