Congress sweeps byelections in Rajasthan
JAIPUR/KOLKATA,February 02, 2018 00:00 IST
Updated:February 02, 2018 06:08 IST
Massive margins a jolt for BJP; Trinamool Congress bags Uluberia, Noapara seats
In a setback for the NDA, the Congress registered an impressive victory in the three by-elections in Rajasthan while the Trinamool Congress made a clean sweep in West Bengal.
The Congress wrested two Lok Sabha seats — Alwar and Ajmer — and one Assembly seat, Mandalgarh, from the ruling BJP in the western State with huge margins. Trinamool won the Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara Assembly constituencies.
With Rajasthan due to hold Assembly elections in a few months, a resurgent Congress will pose a serious challenge to the BJP. The party’s victory in the bypolls, being touted as the “semi-finals”, is being interpreted as a “people’s verdict” against the Vasundhara Raje government’s “failure and arrogance”.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi hailed the party’s impressive show in the bypolls and called the outcome a “rejection” of the BJP by the people. “Well done Rajasthan Congress! Proud of each and every one of you. This is a rejection of the BJP by the people of Rajasthan,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted.
In Alwar, Karan Singh Yadav of the Congress defeated the BJP’s Jaswant Yadav by a margin of 1,96,496 votes, while Congress candidate Raghu Sharma defeated his BJP rival Ramswarup Lamba in Ajmer by 84,414 votes.
In the Mandalgarh Assembly constituency, the Congress’s Vivek Dhakar trounced the BJP’s Shakti Singh Hada by 12,976 votes.
Hundreds of Congress workers burst firecrackers and distributed sweets outside the Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters in Jaipur as the trends became clear.
State Congress president Sachin Pilot, who stayed in Ajmer and criss-crossed the three constituencies during electioneering, was carried inside the building on the shoulders of jubilant party workers.
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JAIPUR/KOLKATA,February 02, 2018 00:00 IST
Updated:February 02, 2018 06:08 IST
Massive margins a jolt for BJP; Trinamool Congress bags Uluberia, Noapara seats
In a setback for the NDA, the Congress registered an impressive victory in the three by-elections in Rajasthan while the Trinamool Congress made a clean sweep in West Bengal.
The Congress wrested two Lok Sabha seats — Alwar and Ajmer — and one Assembly seat, Mandalgarh, from the ruling BJP in the western State with huge margins. Trinamool won the Uluberia Lok Sabha and Noapara Assembly constituencies.
With Rajasthan due to hold Assembly elections in a few months, a resurgent Congress will pose a serious challenge to the BJP. The party’s victory in the bypolls, being touted as the “semi-finals”, is being interpreted as a “people’s verdict” against the Vasundhara Raje government’s “failure and arrogance”.
Congress president Rahul Gandhi hailed the party’s impressive show in the bypolls and called the outcome a “rejection” of the BJP by the people. “Well done Rajasthan Congress! Proud of each and every one of you. This is a rejection of the BJP by the people of Rajasthan,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted.
In Alwar, Karan Singh Yadav of the Congress defeated the BJP’s Jaswant Yadav by a margin of 1,96,496 votes, while Congress candidate Raghu Sharma defeated his BJP rival Ramswarup Lamba in Ajmer by 84,414 votes.
In the Mandalgarh Assembly constituency, the Congress’s Vivek Dhakar trounced the BJP’s Shakti Singh Hada by 12,976 votes.
Hundreds of Congress workers burst firecrackers and distributed sweets outside the Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters in Jaipur as the trends became clear.
State Congress president Sachin Pilot, who stayed in Ajmer and criss-crossed the three constituencies during electioneering, was carried inside the building on the shoulders of jubilant party workers.
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