5 reasons why BJP lost in bypolls in all 4 states - Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Bihar
India | April 16, 2022 17:55 ISTThe BJP failed to win a single seat in these by-elections.
The BJP failed to win a single seat in these by-elections.
The bypolls held on April 12 were perhaps the most keenly watched, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing in all five seats in the four states.
Stones were pelted on the vehicle of BJP leader Agnimitra Paul, who is the party's candidate for the ongoing Asansol Bypolls. She alleged that TMC was involved in the same.
Shehbaz, 70, was the only candidate left in the race after former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced that his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party will boycott the voting and staged a walkout.
The Pandabeswar MLA was recently heard telling party workers in a purported video to intimidate BJP supporters so that they do not go to polling booths.
The by-polls in Asansol and Ballygunge will take place on April 12. No exams will happen between April 6 and 15.
According to the EC, the date of issuing gazette notification is March 17 and the last date of nominations is March 24.
By-elections were held in 14 states and one union territory on Oct 30 of which the results were announced on Nov 2.
Of the four seats for which by-elections were held on Saturday, the Khandwa Lok Sabha constituency and Raigaon Assembly seat were earlier held by BJP.
According to results announced by the Election Commission of India on Tuesday, Ramesh Bhusanur of BJP won in Sindgi seat by a margin of 31,185 votes, by securing 93,865 votes, while his closest rival Congress' Ashok Managuli secured 62,680 votes.
The BJP's Phani Talukdar, Rupjyoti Kurmi and Sushanta Borgohain retained their respective Bhabanipur, Mariani and Thowra seats which they had won in the assembly elections held earlier this year on tickets given by other parties but resigned after joining the saffron party.
In Mandi parliamentary seat, late chief minister Virbhadra Singh's wife Pratibha Singh of the Congress defeated her nearest rival -Kargil war hero Brigadier Khushal Thakur of the BJP.
The BJP has alleged that Moitra, who didn't have the jurisdiction to enter the centre with personal bodyguards, made the move to influence the counting personnel.
These instructions were issued to check surge in COVID-19 cases when counting was to be held for assembly elections held in Assam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, West Bengal and Kerala earlier this year.
The assembly by-elections which saw a high turnout were held in five seats in Assam, four in West Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one seat each is in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana.
Besides the three assembly seats in HP, by-polls were held in five assembly seats in Assam, four in West Bengal, three each in Madhya Pradesh and Meghalaya, two each in Bihar, Karnataka and Rajasthan and one seat each in Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Maharashtra, Mizoram and Telangana.
The results of these polls will be announced on November 2.
Lalu slammed Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and the NDA regime in the state, saying unemployment and corruption have increased manifold under the present regime but nothing has been done address these issues.
Assembly seats of Vallabh Nagar and Dhariyawad will go to by-polls on October 30.
Hitting out at Congress leaders for the allegation, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said, BJP was going to the election with the love and trust of the people.
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