The arithmetic of a united Opposition pooling votes trumped the BJP’s hopes of repeating the chemistry that the Narendra Modi-led party rode on to win the 2014 LS polls.
Bypoll Results 2018 : The results of four Lok Sabha and 10 assembly by-polls, announced on Thursday reinforced the idea of a united Opposition that parties have been working on to fight the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, and sent Bharatiya Janata Party strategists back to the drawing board. The BJP and its allies could win three of the 14 seats.
The trend, apparent in the results of Uttar Pradesh’s Phulpur and Gorakphpur Lok Sabha by-polls in March, was reinforced by Thursday’s results, particularly in the Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur Assembly seats of the state.
The arithmetic of a united Opposition pooling votes trumped the BJP’s hopes of repeating the chemistry that the Narendra Modi-led party rode on to win the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.
Uttar Pradesh is crucial for the BJP in 2019. Its successive defeats in by-polls, barely a year after emphatically winning the Assembly polls, is likely to lead to questions being put to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
Graph On the eve of the polling on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi undertook a well-publicised roadshow on the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh border and addressed a public rally in Baghpat, where he reached out to the region’s sugarcane farmers. The farmers are upset about not getting a suitable price for their produce. The Opposition had accused the Prime Minister of violating the spirit of the model code of conduct.
On Thursday, an upbeat Opposition insisted that the by-poll results reflected “widespread” anti-incumbency against the Modi government at the Centre, and states run by the BJP and its allies, including Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra and Meghalaya.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra attributed the results to local issues and said the combination of Prime Minister Modi and party chief Amit Shah would help the BJP win the 2019 elections.
The results brought the BJP’s seats tally down to 272 in the Lok Sabha. The party is now on the brink of losing its majority status in the Lower House.
The results were a vindication for Yadav and second-generation dynasts who led their respective parties to victories in their home states. In the Kairana Lok Sabha constituency, Rashtriya Lok Dal’s Jayant Chaudhary led from the front to have his party’s Tabassum Hassan elected.
She was supported by the Congress, SP, BSP, Left parties and others. She also became the first Muslim from Uttar Pradesh to enter the current Lok Sabha.
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