Last Saturday, by-elections were held in 28 seats of Lok Sabha and State Assembly in 13 states of India. By-elections were held in three Lok Sabha seats in three more states, including four in the West Bengal Assembly. The three states are Himachal, Madhya Pradesh and the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
The BJP has lost four seats in West Bengal to the Trinamool Congress by a huge margin. In West Bengal, the BJP’s orchards have been devastated by grassroots storms in just five months. The Trinamool Congress won 213 of the state’s 294 seats in the March-April assembly elections. BJP got 6 seats.
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| Last Saturday, by-elections were held in 28 seats of Lok Sabha and State Assembly in 13 states of India. |
After the death of the candidate, resignation, change of party, seven seats in the assembly became vacant. By-elections were held on September 30 in three of those constituencies. The by-elections in the other four constituencies were held on October 30. Trinamool candidates won all the seats. Trinamool leader Mamata Banerjee won by a wide margin in Bhabanipur, South Kolkata.
In the March-April assembly elections, the BJP candidate in the Kharadaha constituency of the North 24 Parganas got 61,006 votes. And in the by-election, the result of Tuesday’s vote has decreased to 20 thousand 254. Votes dropped from 33.6 percent to 13.08 percent. The BJP got 72,014 votes in the Gosaba constituency of South 24 Parganas. This time in the by-election it has come down to 16 thousand 423. Votes fell 41.6 percent to just 9.95 percent.
In the last assembly elections in Dinhata constituency of Kochbihar, BJP got 1 lakh 17 thousand 35 votes, this time it got 25 thousand 46 votes in the by-election. It has come down from 47.60 percent to 11.33 percent. In the Shantipur constituency where BJP got 1 lakh 9 thousand 622 votes in May, it got 47 thousand 412 votes in the by-election. It dropped from 49.94 percent to 23.22 percent.
Thus, just six months after the BJP’s orchards in West Bengal were destroyed by the grassroots storm, the people of the state are beginning to think, but has the BJP started bleeding? What is the signal of BJP’s departure from West Bengal?
The same picture is not only in West Bengal but in the whole of India. The Congress, the Trinamool Congress, and other opposition parties have started destroying the BJP’s orchards.
On October 30, by-elections were held in three Lok Sabha seats and 25 Assembly seats in 13 states in India. Out of the three Lok Sabha seats, the Congress has won in Mandi in Himachal Pradesh, the BJP in Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh, and the Shiv Sena in Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
On the other hand, BJP has won 9 out of 25 seats in the assembly. Apart from this, Congress has won 6, Trinamool 4, and other political parties have won the remaining 4. After this result, various political parties are saying that the time of BJP is running out. In the future, the anti-BJP political parties in India will be stronger.
After the announcement of the by-election results, there has been great concern in the BJP camp. Especially in West Bengal, the way the anti-BJP grassroots is blowing, it seems that the BJP’s garden can really be destroyed in that wind?