KOLKATA: Union minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday attributed the BJP's bypoll defeat in two of the three Lok Sabha seats it had to the adaptation within the voter turnout as compared to common elections and said opposition team spirit was not a risk to the saffron party.
He said the BJP was a "thinking party" and that it would analyse the explanations for the bypoll defeat and take important actions.
"Out of three (Lok Sabha seats which were with the BJP) we lost two. There's a difference between general elections and bypolls. In general elections, the voting percentage in all the three seats was more than 70 per cent. Now, it was 50 per cent. So the difference in the voting percentage produced a different result," Javadekar advised journalists at the Press Club right here.
"We are a thinking party. We are not dynasts. We have already started analysing in detail, up to the booth level and we will take necessary action," he said.
Though the BJP managed to retain the Palghar parliamentary seat in Maharashtra, they misplaced Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and Kairana in Uttar Pradesh.
Hailing the BJP's appearing in elections in 14 different states within the final 4 years, the central minister said, "Winning elections in 14 states is an achievement. It's okay if we have lost two by-elections. We will analyse."
On opposition team spirit posing a risk to the BJP, he said: "Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal came together in Uttar Pradesh. It happens often in politics. It is not a threat to the BJP."
"What is the basis of their alliance ... 'Modi hatao' cannot be an agenda because he is working for the country and the poor. People are asking why should he be removed ... Because we cannot fight Modi single-handedly, we are coming together," he said on rival events banding in combination to take at the BJP.
"We were ruling 6 states when we came to power in 2014. Now we are at the helm of 20 states," he said, highlighting the BJP's incessant electoral successes in quite a lot of states because the final Lok Sabha elections.
About the new panchayat elections in West Bengal, Javadekar said the State Election Commission (SEC) had transform "Mamata Election Commission".
He alleged the TMC government followed four-pronged strategy to "win or rig" the elections.
"In the local body elections, they did not allow opposition candidates to file nominations, they didn't allow anybody to campaign, did not let people vote and officers to count ballots at many places," he alleged.
He said the BJP was a "thinking party" and that it would analyse the explanations for the bypoll defeat and take important actions.
"Out of three (Lok Sabha seats which were with the BJP) we lost two. There's a difference between general elections and bypolls. In general elections, the voting percentage in all the three seats was more than 70 per cent. Now, it was 50 per cent. So the difference in the voting percentage produced a different result," Javadekar advised journalists at the Press Club right here.
"We are a thinking party. We are not dynasts. We have already started analysing in detail, up to the booth level and we will take necessary action," he said.
Though the BJP managed to retain the Palghar parliamentary seat in Maharashtra, they misplaced Bhandara-Gondiya in Maharashtra and Kairana in Uttar Pradesh.
Hailing the BJP's appearing in elections in 14 different states within the final 4 years, the central minister said, "Winning elections in 14 states is an achievement. It's okay if we have lost two by-elections. We will analyse."
On opposition team spirit posing a risk to the BJP, he said: "Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal came together in Uttar Pradesh. It happens often in politics. It is not a threat to the BJP."
"What is the basis of their alliance ... 'Modi hatao' cannot be an agenda because he is working for the country and the poor. People are asking why should he be removed ... Because we cannot fight Modi single-handedly, we are coming together," he said on rival events banding in combination to take at the BJP.
"We were ruling 6 states when we came to power in 2014. Now we are at the helm of 20 states," he said, highlighting the BJP's incessant electoral successes in quite a lot of states because the final Lok Sabha elections.
About the new panchayat elections in West Bengal, Javadekar said the State Election Commission (SEC) had transform "Mamata Election Commission".
He alleged the TMC government followed four-pronged strategy to "win or rig" the elections.
"In the local body elections, they did not allow opposition candidates to file nominations, they didn't allow anybody to campaign, did not let people vote and officers to count ballots at many places," he alleged.
BJP lost due to low voter turnout in bypolls: Prakash Javadekar
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