The ruling Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) on Saturday emerged victorious in Rajasthan meeting by polls profitable 5 seats out of seven whereas the Congress and Bharat Adivasi Occasion managed one seat every.
This was Congress’s worst efficiency in meeting bypolls previously ten years. (File photograph)
The outcomes got here as a shock to Congress because it held 4 of the seven seats within the 2023 meeting election however misplaced three seats within the bypolls.
Congress candidates got here third in 4 of seven seats and the social gathering candidates misplaced their deposits on the Chorasi and Khinvsar seats.
Rashtriya Loktantrik Occasion founder president and Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal misplaced the Khinvsar seat and with this defeat, the social gathering has no illustration within the state meeting.
Cupboard minister Kirori Lal Meena’s brother Jagmohan Meena misplaced the Dausa seat on a BJP ticket. Meena who was as soon as a robust chief of the Meena neighborhood has seen his affect waning, and the outcomes suggests the identical.
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The BJP gained Ramgarh, Jhunjhunu, Khinvsar, Deoli Uniara and Salumber seats whereas the Congress gained Dausa and Bharat Adivasi social gathering gained Chorasi seat.
This was Congress’s worst efficiency in meeting bypolls previously ten years. The social gathering had carried out higher than the BJP in bypolls within the final ten years however this time, it was the BJP which had the higher hand.
Triangular fights in Jhunjhunu, Khinsar, Deoli Uniara and Salumber labored in favour of the BJP.
In the meantime, political commentator Narayan Bareth criticised the social gathering’s marketing campaign.
“The Congress did not do proper groundwork. They took the election lightly. The factionalism between former CM Ashok Gehlot and former deputy CM Sachin Pilot was evident and the party did not work in a united manner”, he mentioned.
Analysts attributed BJP’s victory to good candidate choice and unity within the social gathering.
“The BJP did not take the election lightly. Their candidate selection was good. The party was united. There was no interference from the party high command. Former CM Vasundhara Raje too was inactive. But the party posted its best result in a decade,” Political analyst Manish Godha mentioned.
Reacting to the outcomes, a BJP chief on situation of anonymity mentioned, “The CM and Rathore should get credit for the victory. The party fought the election in a strategic manner. The candidate selection was pertinent keeping in mind the caste equations. The CM and Rathore did well to manage the rebels who could have hurt the party’s electoral prospects. The leaders made a strategy for each seat and did not take the election lightly,” he mentioned.
Analyst Prakash Bhandari was additionally of the view that the victory was a morale booster for CM Bhajanlal Sharma.
“It was a big test for him. His government was seen as weak. The opposition taunted the government as a ‘parchi sarkar’ that was being run from Delhi. He had his detractors within the party too. But the victory will now silence his detractors and boost his confidence.”
The power of the political events within the state meeting now stands as follows, BJP 119, Congress 66, Bharat Adivasi Occasion 4, BSP 2, RLD 1, RLP 0 and Independents 8.
On the Ramgarh seat, Sukhwant Singh of BJP defeated Aryan Khan of the Congress by a margin of 13,636 votes. Khan is the son of late Congress chief Zubair Khan.
Khinvsar noticed a significant upset with BJP wresting the seat from Rashtriya Loktantrik Occasion (RLP).
Khinvsar seat has been a bastion of RLP president Hanuman Beniwal. He has been contesting and profitable the seat since 2008. This time Beniwal had fielded his spouse Kanika Beniwal, who misplaced to BJP’s Revant Daga by a margin of 13,901 votes.
In Jhunjhuna, Rajendra Bhamboo of the BJP notched up a complete win over Amit Ola, son of Congress chief Brijendra Ola and grandson of Congress stalwart Sis Ram Ola. The seat was thought-about a pocket borough of the Ola household for the previous 5 many years, however Bhamboo gained by a margin of 42,848 votes.
On the Deoli Uniara seat, Rajendra Gurjar of the BJP trumped KC Meena of the Congress by a slender margin of 4,121 votes.
In Salumber, the BJP candidate Shanta Meena registered a slender victory profitable by 1,285 votes.
The Congress was in a position to register a win on the Dausa seat, the place the social gathering candidate DD Bairwa defeated BJP’s Jagmohan Meena, brother of cupboard minister Kirori Lal Meena, by 2,300 votes.
The Bharat Adivasi Occasion retained its maintain on the Chorasi seat, with social gathering candidate Anil Kumar Katara defeating Karilal Ninoma of the BJP by 24,370 votes. Congress candidate Mahesh Roat misplaced his deposit on the seat.
Political commentator Narayan Bareth mentioned regardless of BJP profitable the Salumber seat, the BAP has emerged as a power within the Vagad area.
“The tribal community was seen as a strong vote bank, but the party has lost its hold. The BJP too has been trying to establish its foot hold here and has succeeded to an extent. However, both the BJP and Congress have to rethink their politics in the tribal region. The issues have changed, and people are drifting away from the two parties. The BAP graph is rising.”