BJP suffers crushing defeat in by-elections

The BJP suffered a crushing defeat in the bypolls held on October 30 losing all four assembly seats in West Bengal and three in Himachal Pradesh In Karnataka the party won the Sindgi constituency but lost Hangal to the Congress In Rajasthan the BJP accepted defeat with the partyrsquos state chief Satish Poonia saying it was ldquocircumstantialrdquo and depended on ldquolocal equationsrdquo Elections to three Lok Sabha seats and 29 assembly constituencies across 13 states and a UT were held on October 30West BengalThe TMC wrested the Dinhata and Santipur seats in Coochbehar and Nadia districts respectively from the BJP by huge margins The TMCrsquos tally in the 294member WB assembly rose to 215 while that of the BJP dropped to 75 from 77 The TMCrsquos share stood at a staggering 7502 per cent against BJPrsquos measly 1448 per centRajasthanThe ruling Congress in Rajasthan won in Vallabhnagar and Dhariawad Assembly segments pushing the opposition BJP to the third and fourth places there Before the bypolls the Dhariawad seat was represented by the BJP and Vallabhnagar by the CongressHimachal PradeshInvigorated by the victory in all three Assembly seats and the Mandi Lok Sabha seat the opposition Congress demanded Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakurrsquos resignation while the BJP said it will introspect the causes of its defeat The Congress retained the Fatehpur and Arki Assembly seats while it wrested JubbalKotkhai from the BJPCongress candidate from Mandi LS seat Pratibha Singh centre celebrates her victory in Shimla PicPTIKarnatakaIn Karnataka BJPrsquos Bhusanur Balappa won the Sindgi constituency by 31185 votes over Congressrsquos Ashok Mallappa Managuli Congressrsquos Mane Shrinivar won the Hangal constituency by a margin of 7373 votes over the BJPrsquos Shivaraj Sharanappa SajjanarMadhya PradeshIn Madhya Pradesh the BJP snatched two assembly seats mdash Jobat and Prithvipur mdash from the Congress but lost a sitting seat mdash Raigaon mdash to the opposition party It also won the Khandwa LS seatAssamThe BJP and its ally UPPL won all five seats in Assam with Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarmarsquos ploy of having three sitting Congress MLAs to cross over to the saffron camp paying off as all of them won on its ticket with big marginsMeghalayaIn Meghalaya the National Peoplersquos Party NPP wrested Rajabala and Mawryngkneng seats from the Congress while the United Democratic Party a partner in the NPPled Meghalaya Democratic Alliance government emerged victorious in MawphlangHaryanaIndian National Lok Dalrsquos leader Abhay Singh Chautala won the Ellenabad bypoll after defeating his nearest rival Gobind Kanda of the BJP with a margin of 6739 votes Main opposition Congressrsquos candidate trailed at the third spotBiharThe ruling JDU in Bihar retained both Tarapur and Kusheshwar Asthan seats It won Tarapur with a slender margin of less than 4000 votes while it bagged the Kusheshwar Asthan seat by a comfortable margin of over 12000 votesAndhra PradeshThe ruling YSR Congress defeated the BJP in the Badvel SC Assembly seat in Andhra Pradesh securing a record margin of 90533 votesTelanganaBJP candidate Eatala Rajender defeated TRSrsquos Gellu Srinivas Yadav in Huzurabad Telangana with a margin of 23855 votes When the counting was underway BJPrsquos Ponguleti Sudhakar Reddy had said ldquoBJP is the only party that can counter misrule and misdeed of the TRSrdquolsquoBJPrsquos exit is written on the wallrsquoSanjay Dutt Congress leaderlsquoThis is a vote for change against the antipeople policies of the BJPrsquos central and Himachal Pradesh governments It is a mandate expressing peoplersquos solidarity with the propeople stance of our leaders Soniaji and Rahul Gandhi jirsquoJai Ram Thakur CM Himachal PradeshlsquoThe BJP will introspect the causes which led to its defeat will formulate a strategy to overcome its shortcomings and do everything possible to ensure victory in the 2022 assembly electionsrsquoRandeep Surjewala general secretary CongresslsquoModi ji Shed arrogance Repeal the three lsquoblack lawsrsquo Stop PetrolDieselGas loot Disdain for peoplersquos pain is harmful The BJPrsquos exit is written on the wallrsquo164LThe vote margin by which BJP lost in Bengalrsquos Dinhata assembly constituency7490The vote margin by which BJP lost Mandi Lok Sabha seat in Himachal PradeshThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever