Shimla: BJP in power emptied four Bypolls in Himachal Pradesh – Bath Parliamentary Constituency and Constituency Assembly Fatehpur, Arki and Jubbal-Kotkhai – on Tuesday.
The result is important for both parties as Himachal is scheduled to hold assembly polls next year and four times the weakness involved 20 assembly constituencies.
While both parties faced disgradition in each chair at this time, it was the BJP involved in the fight.
Making Bypolls as “semi-finals” and the precursor of the party’s victory in the election of the assembly next year, the President of the Himachal Congress of Kuldeep Singh Rathore demanded the resignation from the minister’s chairman of moral land after the defeat of BJP.
Congress managed to maintain the Arki and Fatehpur assembly chair and grab Jubbal-Kotkhai from BJP.
It also takes the constituency of bathing Lok Sabha from BJP.
The rest of defeat, CM Jai Ram Thakur said BJP would introspect about the cause of the party’s defeat.
Alleges that some BJP workers have worked against party candidates, he added that “the action will be taken against them.” Thakur was sure to win a bath parliamentary seat, which was won by BJP in 2014 and 2019.
Bypoll needed by the death of Sitting MP RAM Swaroop Sharma in March.
There were six candidates in Medi in the bath, but the main contest remained between the Pratibha Singh Congress, wife of the former chairman of the Minister of Virbhadra Singh, and BJP candidate, Cargil War Hero Brigadier Khushal Thakur.
Congress plays an emotional card by telling voters that every sound surveyed for Pratibha Singh will be award for six times Virbhadra Singh by highlighting the slogan “Choose Nahi Shraddhanjali.” When the results were stated finally on Tuesday, Pratibha Singh beat Brigadier Khushal Thakur with a margin of 7,490 votes.
Pratibha secured 3.69,565 votes for 3,62,075 surveyed by Brigadier Khushal Thakur.
Interestingly, the Margin of Pratibha Singh’s victory was lower than 12,661 sounds surveyed under the note.
In the assembly chair Fatehpur, Congress has dropped Bhawani Singh Pathhania, former son of Mla Sujan Singh Pathhania, while BJP chose Baldev Thakur after denying tickets to the former MP Rajya Sabha Parmar.
Pathania, who secured 24,449 votes, defeated Thakur with a margin of 5,789 votes.
Independent candidates and former members of the Rajan Sushant parliament are guaranteed 12,927 votes.
From Arki, Congress offered Sanjay Awasthi, and this caused a rebellion by Rajender Thakur, who resigned from the party.
BJP also faced attached after protecting Rattan Singh Pal and denied the ticket to the former Govind Sharma Mla.
In the jubbal-kotkhai assembly chair, BJP denied the ticket to Chetan Bragta, the son of Sitting Mla Narinder Singh Bragta whose deaths needed elections.
Bragta was contested as independent but lost to Congress Neelam Saraik with a margin of 6,293 votes.
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