MUMBAI: Maharashtra may well have delivered the face-saver for BJP on Thursday. The handiest certainly one of 3 in the past held Lok Sabha seats it retained was Palghar, a tribal borough the place it defeated the Shiv Sena candidate in a bitter contest between the two allies. But the celebration lost the Bhandara-Gondia constituency in Vidarbha to the NCP, which fought the bypoll in alliance with the Congress.
While the Palghar win provides respite to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and can assist stay away demanding situations to his management in Maharashtra forward of the 2019 basic and assembly elections, NCP’s victory in Gondia comes as a spice up to opposition morale and cohesion at a time when BJP and Sena remain at loggerheads, with rarely any indicators of burying their variations forward of next year’s giant fight.
While the consequences had been a mixed bag for BJP, the victory in Palghar was by way of a margin of rather less than 30,000 votes in a multi-cornered contest the place anti-incumbency votes had been divided. The Sena too has sufficient to introspect as it lost despite striking up local boy Shriniwas Wanga, son of the overdue BJP MP Chintaman Wanga; BJP in a last-minute scramble had to rope in ex-Congress minister Rajendra Gavit as its candidate for the reserved constituency.
The campaigning took ties between the allies to a brand new low: Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray made non-public allegations against the CM, accusing him of using coercion and cash power all over the campaign.
The barbs continued after Thursday’s results. Fadnavis mentioned parties in executive should no longer contest against each different, while Uddhav gloated over the fact that BJP had won handiest 2 of 11 seats throughout India the place bypolls had been held. “Four years in the past, when BJP got here to power, it was mentioned BJP would rule for the next 25 years. But the situation has modified in just four years. The BJP’s downfall has begun,” he mentioned.
Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath had come to Palghar to campaign but had didn't win the Kairana LS seat in his own state, he pointed out. He additionally accused Adityanath of “insulting” Chhatrapati Shivaji and the folk of Maharashtra.
Fadnavis tried to strike a reconciliatory tone announcing, “We are not against a BJP-Sena alliance, nor do we believe that our alliance will destroy down. Efforts have to be made both ways. We are able for talks with the Shiv Sena.”
State Congress president Ashok Chavan mentioned the result mirrored the “anti-Modi temper” in the country. Chavan mentioned Thackeray blamed the BJP but at the similar time was no longer keen on snapping ties with it. Both Chavan and NCP chief Nawab Malik claimed BJP won the Palghar seat owing to a break up in opposition votes.
In Bhandara-Gondia too, it was Fadnavis who had led the BJP campaign, while the Congress-NCP campaign was spearheaded by way of Nana Patole, who quit the seat and celebration, necessitating the bypoll, and NCP chief Praful Patel. Patole had quit the BJP last year alleging that the Modi executive was ignoring farmers.
Patole joined the Congress and was expected to contest the by-election as Congress nominee if the NCP nominated Praful Patel. In 2014, Patole rode the Modi wave to defeat Patel by way of a margin of over two lakh votes. But following the intervention of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and NCP president Sharad Pawar, it was determined that neither Patole nor Patel would contest but that there can be a mixed opposition candidate. The opposition cohesion technique perceived to have labored, with NCP nominee Madhukar Kukade successful by way of a comfy margin against BJP’s Hemant Patle.
While the Palghar win provides respite to chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and can assist stay away demanding situations to his management in Maharashtra forward of the 2019 basic and assembly elections, NCP’s victory in Gondia comes as a spice up to opposition morale and cohesion at a time when BJP and Sena remain at loggerheads, with rarely any indicators of burying their variations forward of next year’s giant fight.
While the consequences had been a mixed bag for BJP, the victory in Palghar was by way of a margin of rather less than 30,000 votes in a multi-cornered contest the place anti-incumbency votes had been divided. The Sena too has sufficient to introspect as it lost despite striking up local boy Shriniwas Wanga, son of the overdue BJP MP Chintaman Wanga; BJP in a last-minute scramble had to rope in ex-Congress minister Rajendra Gavit as its candidate for the reserved constituency.
The campaigning took ties between the allies to a brand new low: Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray made non-public allegations against the CM, accusing him of using coercion and cash power all over the campaign.
The barbs continued after Thursday’s results. Fadnavis mentioned parties in executive should no longer contest against each different, while Uddhav gloated over the fact that BJP had won handiest 2 of 11 seats throughout India the place bypolls had been held. “Four years in the past, when BJP got here to power, it was mentioned BJP would rule for the next 25 years. But the situation has modified in just four years. The BJP’s downfall has begun,” he mentioned.
Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath had come to Palghar to campaign but had didn't win the Kairana LS seat in his own state, he pointed out. He additionally accused Adityanath of “insulting” Chhatrapati Shivaji and the folk of Maharashtra.
Fadnavis tried to strike a reconciliatory tone announcing, “We are not against a BJP-Sena alliance, nor do we believe that our alliance will destroy down. Efforts have to be made both ways. We are able for talks with the Shiv Sena.”
State Congress president Ashok Chavan mentioned the result mirrored the “anti-Modi temper” in the country. Chavan mentioned Thackeray blamed the BJP but at the similar time was no longer keen on snapping ties with it. Both Chavan and NCP chief Nawab Malik claimed BJP won the Palghar seat owing to a break up in opposition votes.
In Bhandara-Gondia too, it was Fadnavis who had led the BJP campaign, while the Congress-NCP campaign was spearheaded by way of Nana Patole, who quit the seat and celebration, necessitating the bypoll, and NCP chief Praful Patel. Patole had quit the BJP last year alleging that the Modi executive was ignoring farmers.
Patole joined the Congress and was expected to contest the by-election as Congress nominee if the NCP nominated Praful Patel. In 2014, Patole rode the Modi wave to defeat Patel by way of a margin of over two lakh votes. But following the intervention of Congress president Rahul Gandhi and NCP president Sharad Pawar, it was determined that neither Patole nor Patel would contest but that there can be a mixed opposition candidate. The opposition cohesion technique perceived to have labored, with NCP nominee Madhukar Kukade successful by way of a comfy margin against BJP’s Hemant Patle.
In Maharashtra bypolls, BJP wins Palghar, loses Gondia to NCP
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