Bypoll results: BJP says Modi factor will help it win in 2019; opposition says it's 'beginning of the end'

NEW DELHI: The reverses in the bypoll results on Thursday have underlined the problem that the BJP will have to struggle towards a most probably united opposition in the Lok Sabha elections, however its leaders asserted that national issues mixed with the Modi issue will pave the way in which for its win in 2019.

BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP GVL Narasimha Rao highlighted how the Modi issue has helped the birthday party win a spate of assembly elections in states, however in bypolls persons are driven by native issues, castes and candidates, realizing well that results won't have any have an effect on on governments in both at the Centre or states.

"The BJP has secured unusual and extraordinary mandate in four years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rule. While Modi continues to swing election after election by his ever-growing popularity... in by-polls local issues, castes and candidates take precedence over national leadership," he mentioned.

The BJP's loss in Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly byelections to joint rival candidates following a similar drubbing in Gorakhpur and Pulpur Lok Sabha bypolls has made it abundantly clear that it is at a numerical drawback to a mixed opposition in a state key to its fortunes in the normal elections.

Opposition parties gained 11 seats, proscribing the BJP and its allies to only 3, out of four Lok Sabha and 10 Assembly seats throughout 11 states.

The BJP's reverses sparked recent calls from the opposition parties to forge harmony in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

The Congress termed the end result of the bypolls as the people's mandate towards the 4 years of the Narendra Modi rule and the "beginning of the end" of BJP's empire while the Samajwadi Party(SP) mentioned persons are giving a "befitting reply" to the Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP).

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary, whose birthday party nominee wrested the Kairana seat from the BJP, mentioned the united opposition had succeeded in halting the ruling birthday party's "chariot of hate" in Uttar Pradesh. He hoped the mixed opposition would stay its momentum to defeat the BJP in the next Lok Sabha polls.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee mentioned persons are disappointed and seen that regional parties are very sturdy now.

"This is a defeat for those who do not believe in democracy and play divisive politics. People have given a befitting reply to the BJP. This is a victory for the farmers, poor and dalits," Akhilesh Yadav advised journalists in Lucknow. The SP gained the Noorpur byelection in UP after its candidate, who used to be supported by other opposition parties, wrested the seat from the BJP. BJP misplaced the Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary seats in bypolls early this yr.

Yadav mentioned the bypolls have ended the "divisive politics" of the BJP. "This success of the alliance(in UP) is a message for the entire country. All parties including BSP, RLD, Peace Party, AAP worked together for the victory," he added.

In UP, BJP had gained 71 seats and its best friend every other two of the whole 80 seats in 2014, however reaching near this feat will require a new spherical of consolidation of votes in its favour.

BJP president Amit Shah had ultimate week mentioned that his birthday party will work to get 50 in keeping with cent vote percentage in 2019 to quell the problem from opposition parties in the event that they unite.

The birthday party, then again, played down its defeat in the bypolls. It could retain handiest some of the two Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra attacked the Congress saying it has been lowered to a peripheral participant in national politics.

"As far as the Congress is concerned, though it has every rights to criticise in a democracy, the fact is the opposition party been reduced to a peripheral player in Indian politics today," he advised journalists right here.

Citing the case of UP where the BJP misplaced many of the bypolls sooner than the state elections, Patra mentioned regardless of that it emerged victorious with 325 seats in the Assembly polls.

"People do not elect their CM or PM in such elections. They vote on local issues but in national elections, when they have to chose their leader, the BJP will emerge as the front runner," he mentioned.

The birthday party spokesperson mentioned that to turn out to be the top minister, 'P' for performance and 'M' for 'mehnat' (hard work) are required, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi has.

"Under the able leadership of Narendra Modi, who has practised politics of performance, the BJP will be victorious in 2019 getting more number of seats than what it won in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections," he mentioned.

Another birthday party chief claimed that opposition parties will finally end up serving to the BJP's reason in 2019 by making it "Modi vs the rest" in the Lok Sabha election.

The BJP is certain to profit, he mentioned, as it is going to be in a much better position to leverage national issues and its top ministerial face to seek a recent mandate towards a "disjointed" opposition fighting with no face or any cohesive schedule.

He mentioned the BJP did well in 3 Lok Sabha elections in 1996, 1998 after which 1999 when its top ministerial face Atal Vihari Bajpayee used to be at the centre of national polity and folks gave the BJP-led NDA bigger mandate in one poll after every other to place an end to the "unstable coalition politics".

"We are confident that a ragtag joint opposition having many leaders accused of corruption will not inspire confidence among the people, who will choose Modi over them in 2019," he mentioned.