New Delhi: One of the biggest setbacks for BJP on October 30 Bypolls has come from the State of Himachal Pradesh, where the powerful party loses all three assembly chairs and Sabha’s Lok Sabha where the selection is held.
The result will be a question mark to the ability of the main minister of Jai Ram Thakur to direct the party to victory in the election of the assembly due next year.
The fact that in one of the assembly chairs, BJP candidates even lost their deposits will definitely worry about the party.
More than that, because Himachal Pradesh was also a house holder of the National Presidential Election of the Party of J P Nadda.
Virbhadra Factor: In the parliamentary bath chair, the Pratibha Singh Congress Candidate, the wife of the former Chief of the Minister of Justice Virbhadra Singh, made BJP candidate Brigadier Khushal Thakur with a margin of 8,766 votes.
Virbhadra Singh is the highest congressional leader of Himachal and can be said that sympathy factors will shake many voters in the election for Pratibha Singh.
However, what would hurt the BJP tribe head was that showering was also the district of his house.
The constituency of its election, Chachiot or Seraj as previously known, fell in the bath district.
Bad performances in the assembly chair: Not only parliamentary seats, the powerful BJP also lost all three seat assembly to Congress.
In the Arki assembly chair, Congress Candidate Sanjay Awasthi defeated the candidate of BJP Rattan Singh Pal with more than 3,000 votes while in the assembly seat of Fatehpur, Bhawani Singh Pathania Congress defeated Baldev Thakur with a margin of 5,634 votes.
Significantly, an independent candidate received 12,000 votes at Fatehpur.
However, the most worrying message for BJP came from the Jubbal-Kotkhai constituency where the candidate only received 2644 votes and lost his deposit.
Congress Candidates for Rohit Thakur beat the Independent Chetan Bragta candidate by 6,293 votes.
Share the BJP selection in this chair is a trivial 4.67 percent show that many levels themselves may not vote for prospective party.
Large turnarounds for Congress: Bypolls in the country marked a major rotation in the fate of the opposition congress that had occurred at the end of the recipient in the contest election in the state of the hill after BJP stormed power with the majority pounding in 2017.
In 2019, BJP had won bypoll in the constituency of Dharamshala defeating candidates Independent with more than 6,000 votes.
The candidate congress at that time had lost his deposit.
However, 2021 Bypolls have signaled the change in parties according to the commission data, the total Voteshare Congress in three seats is almost 20% more than BJP.
While Congress candidates have collected 48.9% of the vote, BJP can only manage 28.1% voteshare in three assembly seats.
Leadership Questions: Bypoll Results are wake up calls for BJP.
The party now looks at the difficult question whether it can enter the poll next year under the leadership of Minister Thakur.
While the party will introspect and analyze, the clean sweep of the Congress is not easily explained for the current state leadership.
Not only Nadda President BJP at the national level, the Cabinet Union minister for information and broadcasting Anurag Thakur, who is the main official in the center, also comes from the state of Hill.
The Thakur Anurag also has the advantage of its age.
BJP had previously imposed leadership changes in the adjacent Uttarakhand state.
With a gloomy performance in Himachal, the party will do some difficult thoughts in Himachal Pradesh too.
Barometer Public Mood: Political Expert Rajesh Jha said that “Bypolls are considered a barometer of public mood.
The results show that people have chosen an alternative to powerful dispensation.
However, aftermath of the covid-19 outbreaks and price increases may also be a factor who can contribute to such results “.
Political scientist Ninanjan Sircar said that while the definitel of Bypolls was an indicator of the public mood, they were still different from the full selection where all party engines in action.
Himachal Bypolls: Defeat a wake up call for BJP when the Cong wins big
