BJP’s string of bypoll losses continues - Tyhe Hindu, September 16, 2014 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. The BJP has suffered electoral reverses in all the three rounds of bypolls held after the Lok Sabha polls. PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah in Ahmedabad on Tuesday. The BJP has suffered electoral reverses in all the three rounds of bypolls held after the Lok Sabha polls. Three hours after counting of votes began in 33 assembly constituencies spread across 10 States, two results were declared. Picture shows counting in progress at Gitam University in Medak, Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Mohd. Arif The Hindu Three hours after counting of votes began in 33 assembly constituencies spread across 10 States, two results were declared. Picture shows counting in progress at Gitam University in Medak, Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Mohd. Arif TOPICS election regional elections BJP loses 13 of the 24 seats held by it, cedes ground to SP in U.P., and Congress in Rajasthan and Gujarat The BJP on Tuesday suffered a major blow in the Assembly by-elections in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat, the States it had swept in the Lok Sabha polls four months ago, losing 13 of the 24 seats held by it. The BJP has suffered electoral reverses in all the three rounds of by-elections held after it swept the Lok Sabha polls four months ago. The saffron party, which got majority on its own in the Lok Sabha riding a “Modi wave”, has got a rude shock in the third round of by-elections, losing ground in key states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home State of Gujarat. Out of the 32 Assembly seats across nine States for which counting of votes was taken up on Tuesday, BJP won 10, Congress seven and Samajwadi Party seven while the TDP, the Trinamool Congress, the AIUDF and the CPI(M) bagged one each. One seat in Sikkim was won by an Independent. In three seats in UP where results were awaited, the BJP was leading in two and Samajwadi Party in one. It was Uttar Pradesh, where the BJP was on a high after a near-total sweep of the 80 Lok Sabha seats, that delivered a humiliating blow to the saffron party as it lost seven of the 11 seats held by it, including one held by its ally Apna Dal. The BSP’s absence in the by-elections had made it a virtual straight fight between the SP and the BJP in the politically crucial State. Equally crushing was the defeat in Rajasthan where BJP conceded three of the four seats to the Congress, which also managed to wrest three of the nine seats in Gujarat, where the elections were held for the first time in 12 years with Mr. Modi at the helm. All the seats in Uttar Pradesh (11), Gujarat (9) and Rajasthan (4) were held by the BJP and the bypolls were necessitated after the MLAs were elected to the Lok Sabha. The first bypolls were held in Congress-ruled Uttarakhand close on the heels of the May 16 Lok Sabha verdict. The outcome had shocked the BJP as the Congress had won all the three Assembly seats including two seats which were held by former BJP Chief Ministers who were elected to Lok Sabha by comfortable margins. The second round saw the party losing six out of the 10 seats in Bihar, despite a formidable show in the Lok Sabha polls. Seat adjustments among arch rivals — JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar and RJD’s Lalu Prasad besides the Congress — forced the BJP to beat a retreat as the three parties together won six seats. As the BJP again suffered reverses in the Assembly bypolls, the Opposition said that the results should ring alarm bells for the BJP and the Modi government. This meant that an anti-incumbency factor has set in within 100 days of the Narendra Modi government coming to power, Congress General Secretary Shakeel Ahmed said. “If you look at these results, these bypolls have proved to be bye-bye polls for the BJP,” NCP general secretary D.P. Tripathi remarked. The bypoll results have come as a shot in the arm for the Congress as it gained three seats each in Gujarat and Rajasthan after drawing a blank in Lok Sabha polls. Gloating over the BJP’s reverses, the Congress and the SP called it as a defeat of the communal forces. They said people had rejected the Modi government and the BJP’s “politics of polarisation”. The BJP, which is hoping to do well in the coming Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana, conceded that the bypoll results were not up to its expectations and said that people had voted on local issues. The only solace for the BJP on an otherwise dismal day was its entry into the West Bengal Assembly. BJP candidate Shamik Bhattacharya won the Basirhat Dakshin seat in North 24-parganas district by a margin of 1,742 votes against his nearest Trinamool Congress rival and former Indian soccer captain Dipendu Biswas. The seat was earlier held by the CPI(M). The BJP retained the Vadodara Lok Sabha seat, vacated by Mr. Modi, albeit with a reduced margin. Ranjanben Bhatt thumped her Congress rival Narendra Rawat by over 3.29 lakh votes. Mr. Modi had won the seat by 5.7 lakh votes. In the other two Lok Sabha by-elections, Mainpuri in Uttar Pradesh, the stronghold of the ruling SP, Tej Pratap Singh, the grand nephew of Mulayam Singh Yadav, defeated the BJP’s Prem Singh Skahkya by a margin of more than 3.21 lakh votes. Mr. Yadav had vacated the seat after he chose to retain Azamgarh. In Medak Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana, the ruling TRS retained the seat vacated by party chief K. Chandrasekhar Rao. Its candidate K. Prabhakar Reddy won by 3,61,277 votes. In Uttar Pradesh, out of 11 Assembly seats, the SP won seven seats and the BJP one. In Gujarat, the BJP won six seats and the Congress three, while in Rajasthan the Congress bagged three and the BJP one. In Andhra Pradesh, the ruling TDP retained the Nandigama seat. In West Bengal, the Trinamool and the BJP won one seat each. The BJP also made other advances in eastern region wresting Silchar constituency in Assam from the Congress. The All India United Democratic Front and the ruling Congress retained Jamunamukh and Lakhipur seats respectively in the State. The CPI(M) won the Manu (ST) Assembly constituency in Tripura while Independent candidate R.N. Chamling, brother of Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling, won Rangang-Yangang Assembly seat in Sikkim by 708 votes defeating his nearest Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) nominee. Last month, the saffron party suffered a 4-6 defeat at the hands of the RJD-JD(U)-Congress alliance in Bihar and yielded two strongholds to the Congress in Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh in the by-elections. In July, it lost all the three Assembly seats in Uttarakhand to the Congress in the by-elections. In U.P., while the SP won Bijnor, Thakurdwara, Nighasan, Hamirpur, Charkhari, Sirathu, Balha and Rohaniya assembly seats, BJP won Saharapur (city seat), Lucknow East and Noida. Charkhari was earlier held by Union Minister Uma Bharati and Lucknow East by Union Ministers Kalraj Mishra. In Gujarat, the BJP lost Dessa, Mangrol and Khambalia seats to the Congress. It managed to retain Maninagar, Tankara, Talaja, Anand, Kheda and Limkheda Assembly seats. In Rajasthan, the BJP lost in Nasirabad, Weir and Surajgarh Assembly constituencies. It retained Kota city. In West Benagl, whereas Trinamool Congress bagged the prestigious Chowringhee seat. The TMC candidate Nayana Bandopadhyay won by a margin of 14,344 votes against her nearest rival BJP’s Ritesh Tiwari. The AIDUF’s Abdur Rahim Ajmal won the Jamunamukh seat defeating Congress’ Bashir Uddin Laskar by 22,959 votes in Assam. The AIUDF president Badruddin Ajmal’s son Abdur Rahim Ajmal retained the seat polling 62,153 votes. The ruling Congress retained Lakhipur seat as its candidate Rajdeep Goala defeated his nearest BJP rival Sanjay Thakur by 9172 votes garnering 40,090 votes, while Thakur got 30918 votes. In Silchar, however, BJP’s Dilip Kumar Paul won. Ruling Telugu Desam Party’s Tangirala Sowmya won the Nandigama Assembly bypoll in Andhra Pradesh by 74,827 votes. Riding on the sympathy wave, Sowmya, a software engineer, got 99,748 votes. The by-election was necessitated following the death of Ms. Sowmya’s father due to a cardiac arrest. CPI(M) candidate Prabhat Chowdhury trounced the Congress candidate Mailafru Mog in Manu (ST) constituency in Tripura. The constituency fell vacant after former Industries and Commerce Minister Jitendra Chowdhury was elected to the Lok Sabha. My Comments: The BJP needs to THOROUGHLY INTROSPECT and that too hurriedly, for loosing miserably in all the THREE ROUNDS of the bye-polls within 100 days of its rule at the Centre; Uttarkhand (Lost 3 out of 3 to Congress), Bihar (Lost 6 out of 10 to JDU, RJD & Congress Combine) and now the DELUGE - lost 8 out of 11 in UP to SP, 3 out of 4 in Rajasthan to Congress where in fact, it had made a CLEAN SWEEP in Loksabha elections! AND the ‘crowning shame’- in Modi’s ‘own Gujarat’, Loosing 3 to Congress out of 9 where also it had made a clean Sweep in Loksabha! If it does INTROSPECT thoroughly it would realise that the REASONS for this consecutive three DEBACALES are: 1) Promising the MOON & then delivering NOTHING, not even ‘MOON DUST’! Promising Acche Din in 100 days’ (where are they? In Nepal with 10000 Cr AID From Modi? While ONLY 100 Crores for WOMENS SAFETY in INDIA?), Promising to Bring back BLACK MONEY within 100 days from SWISS Banks for UPLIFTING the Poor and Reducing income Tax to ZERO ( AND then, adding insult to injury, HIKING RAILWAY FARES hugely that verily, struck at the poor man’s Pocket!), Promising to reduce PRICES of all Essential Commodities in 100 days where as PRICES kept rising all the time making the Common Man’s life miserable! 2) Winning a THUMPING majority in the LOKSABHA by harping only on the DEVELOPMENT MODEL (Incidentally, the so called & MUCH HYPED GUJARAT MODEL!) and then UNLEASHING FRINGE COMMUNAL characters on the whole NATION and especially in UP with the STAR campaigners / performers in particular being various YOGIs from and IN UP apart from the BIG GUNS of the RSS and its affiliates in general, to VITIATE peace through False Love - Jihad & other Communally DIVISIVE propaganda in UP and many other places ( Goa, PUNE, Gujarat etc)! 3) AND while all this big ‘Communal Song and Dance DRAMA by the Fringe Groups and their Characters is all the time being continuously performed on the National Stage, Mr.Modis MUCH PUBLICISED rhetorical ABILITIES vanish and he starts EMULATING our previous PM, Dr Manmohan Sing, to REMAIN totally SILENT at “HOME” in India, whatever be the PROVOCATIONS from the RIGHT WING FRINGE ELEMENTS(!) but is found to be, not only HIGHLY LOQUACIOUS but also is found to be in quite some SPIRITS while DRUMMING - UP support for India in FOREIGN lands (Particularly in JAPAN!) and very ‘Generous’ too, towards Foreign Lands, declaring ‘suo-moto’ 10000 Cr AID to Nepal ( while ONLY 100 Crores gets allotted for WOMENS SAFETY in INDIA, same as the 100 Crores for Sardar Patels Statue in Gujarat?!) The PUBLIC has thoroughly understood the Gap which is huge, between what Mr Modi had promised and its PRACTICAL FEEBLE manifestation on the ground as well as the dichotomy, double speak and double standards that the BJP follows with its Government Talking of Development all the time while its surrogates ( RSS, VHP, BAJRANGDAL etc through their Sub - delegated Fringe Characters) keep the Communal Cauldron not only HOT but Boiling Over for short term ELECTORAL GAINS that results in Shredding the Nations Secular Fabric permanently that WE INDIANS, as a WHOLE, thoroughly ABHOR permanently! The Complete Link: thehindu/news/national/bypolls-trends-in-uttar-pradesh-gujarat-rajasthan-west-bengal/article6415396.ece?utm_source=vuukle&utm_medium=rss&utm
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 09:38:07 +0000
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