Uttar Pradesh, Bihar bypolls 2018: BJP loses all 3 Lok Sabha races, fails to make gains in Bihar

[Kool_SRG]

The loss in the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency is likely to sting the most.

 

NEW DELHI: It was terrible Tuesday for the BJP. The party is on the way to losing bye-elections in two Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, and missed out on a chance to one constituency from the RJD in Bihar. The BJP and JDU also failed to secure two Assembly seats in Bihar and only retained a seat that the BJP had won on its own in 2015.

The BJP was significantly behind Samajwadi Party candidates in both seats. In Gorakhpur, BJP's Upendra Dutt Shukla trailed SP's Pravin Nishad by close to 15,000 votes after 14 rounds of counting. In Phulpur, SP's Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel enjoyed a lead of over 20,000 votes over BJP's Kaushalendra Singh Patel.

 

The loss in UP's Gorakhpur and Phulpur constituencies is bound to sting the BJP, especially Gorakhpur. The last time BJP or its associate organisations did not win the seat was in 1984, when the Congress won in the sympathy wave after the Indira Gandhi assassination. In the that election, the Congress had swept battles across the country, winning in 404 constituencies.

 

The loss of Phulpur may not dent morale, considering 2014 was the first time ever that the BJP won the constituency. However, what could worry the ruling BJP is that in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, it had won both constituencies with humongous margins - Gorakhpur by 3.13 lakh votes and Phulpur by 3.08 lakh votes.

In the bye-election to Bihar's Araria Lok Sabha constituency, BJP's Pradeep Kumar Singh failed to take the seat back. He had lost to RJD's Mohammed Taslibackn in 2014, and is now trailing to his son, Sarafaraz Alam, by about 24,000 votes. Significant however is the fact that BJP has managed to sharply thin the margin - it had lost in 2014 by 1.47 lakh votes.

In the bypoll to the Jehanabad Assembly seat, RJD Kumar Krishna Mohan Yadav led JDU's Abhiram Sharma by over 32,000 votes. The RJD candidate's father, Mundrika Singh Yadav, had won in 2014 with a margin of 30,000 votes.

The Bhabua seat was the lone lining of silver in an otherwise dark day for the BJP. The party's candidate, Rinki Rani Pandey, is ahead by about 24,000 votes. Her late husband, Anand Bhushan Pandey, had won by about 8,000 votes in 2015.

[Kool_SRG]

5 Ways In Which Gorakhpur Loss Hits BJP Hard

UP by-poll result 2018: The UP defeat means that the BJP's tally in the Lok Sabha will now dip to 272 - exactly the number needed for a majority.

Impact of the Gorakhpur defeat on the BJP in 5 points:

1. Gorakhpur has been counted as one of the BJP's safest seats owing to Yogi Adityanath's complete hold on it. The 45-year-old was the Gorakhpur lawmaker since 1998 for five terms till he resigned after being picked to be chief minister. Before Yogi Adityanath, his mentor Mahant Avedyanath was the Gorakhpur MP for three terms starting 1989. Yogi Adityanath also succeeded Mahant Avedyanath as the powerful head priest of the Gorakhpur Matt.
2. Yogi Adityanath had called the by-elections a "dress rehearsal for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections." The BJP's hopes for re-election at the centre hinge heavily on a good performance in UP and the party wants a repeat of its landslide victory in 2014, when it had, along with allies, won 73 out of the state's 80 parliament seats. It followed that up with a sweep of assembly elections last year and the party had hoped for its winning streak to continue. 
3. It's a big loss of face for Yogi Adityanath, seen as a mascot of the BJP's Hindutva hardline and who was handpicked to lead the party in the crucial state ahead of the 2019 election. It is also a setback for the Hindutva agenda that Yogi Adityanath has sought to revive after taking over. 
4. The election result today has validated the unusual decision of the Samajwadi Party and the BSP, bitter rivals for 25 years, to join hands to consolidate their voter bases to defeat the BJP in the by-elections. It is a message that such an alliance can be a gamechanger and that the BJP's strategists could now have to counter a new Bihar-type "Grand Alliance" in UP. 
5. The UP defeat means that the BJP's tally in the Lok Sabha will now dip to 272 - exactly the number needed for a majority. The party had won 282 seats, signaling often that it was well over the halfway mark on its own and didn't really need its allies. Its partners have complained of being given little importance by the BJP in their national alliance NDA and, ahead of the 2019 elections, can now flex some muscle.

 

 

[Kool_SRG]

Gorakhpur & Phulpur  are Loksabha seats vacated after  Present CM Yogi Aditynath & Deputy CM , State BJP head KP Maurya resigned...Now in both seats BJP losses.

 

 

[SonyKongara]

 

adi mari telugoditho pettukunte debba tinalsinde

[Kool_SRG]

3 minutes ago, SonyKongara said:

 

adi mari telugoditho pettukunte debba tinalsinde

SP Cycle ne and mana TDP di Cycle gurthune... 

[manadonga]

gorhkapur lost by bjp after 1984 first time. 

[Raasko]

[Kool_SRG]

1 minute ago, manadonga said:

gorhkapur lost by bjp after 1984 first time. 

CM Yogi ki pedda set backup tane seat eh idi....In morning they were leading slightly in gorakpur later went back, in other LS seat deputy CM di were trailing from morning.

[Kool_SRG]

UP, Bihar by-election results: SP-BSP, RJD stun an overconfident Yogi, BJP

While the Samajwadi Party activists started celebrating what now looks like a sure and morale-boosting victory, the BJP was stunned into silence

In a huge blow to the ruling BJP, the Samajwadi Party on Wednesday took winning leads in both the Lok Sabha seats of Gorakhpur and Phulpur which were vacated by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya.With the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) backing its bitter rival Samajwadi Party, the Bharatiya Janata Party appeared to be heading for a shock defeat in both the constituencies in what is seen as a major embarrassment to Adityanath in particular.

 

Election Commission officials said the Samajwadi Party's Nagendra Singh Patel had taken an unassailable lead of 22,848 votes over BJP's Kashlendra Singh Patel in Phulpur, which along with Gorakhpur voted on Sunday.Pravin Nishad of the Samajwadi Party was leading by 19,201 votes in Gorakhpur, which Aditynath had won five consecutive times, over the BJP candidate Upendra Dutt Shukla.With just 37 per cent of the votes polled in Phulpur and 42 per cent in Gorakhpur, officials admitted that the BJP was unlikely to reverse the expected result.While the Samajwadi Party activists started celebrating what now looks like a sure and morale-boosting victory, the BJP was stunned into silence.

Top 10 developments

1. BJP in for rude shock in Gorakhpur: In Gorakhpur, which Adityanath represented for five straight terms since 1998, BJP candidate Upendra Dutt Shukla was trailing to the Samajwadi Party, an Election Commission official said.SP's Praveen Kumar Nishad leads by 22,954 votes with 3,77,146 votes, BJP's Upendra Dutt Shukla second with 3,54,192 votes after 25th round of counting.

2. Phulpur brings no good tidings for the BJPSamajwadi Party's Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel leading by 47,351 with 3,05,172 votes, BJP's Kaushlendra Singh Patel second with 2,57,821 votes after 28th round of counting.

3. Congratulations pour in for SP, BSP, RJD"Congratulations to Lalu Prasad Ji for winning Araria and Jehanabad This is a great victory," said Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee to RJD chief Lalu Prasad (who's in jail)."This is the beginning of the end," added the Trinamool chief and West Bengal chief minister on Twitter.Omar Abdullah"Dear friends in the BJP, thank you for your hard work and continuing efforts to prove me wrong. I'm truly grateful. Sincerely, your friendly opposition guy... At this rate we might as well forget 2019 and start planning/hoping for 2024," tweeted Abdullah.The BJP deputy chief minister in Uttar Pradesh, Keshav Prasad Maurya, who vacated his Phulpur seat necessitating a bypoll there, said his party needs to analyse the results to prevent a broader Opposition front from springing up ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls."We didn't expect that BSP's vote will be transferred to SP in such a manner. We will analyse after seeing the final results and prepare for a situation in future when BSP, SP and Congress can come together and also make our strategy for winning 2019 elections," said Maurya to ANI.

4. This is rejection of Modi, Yogi: SP"This is a rejection of both (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi and Yogi (Adityanath)," Samajwadi Party spokesman Anurag Bhaudauria told IANS."They have been making tall promises but not delivering on the ground," he said, explaining why the voters appeared to have turned away against the BJP so dramatically in these two seats since the 2014 Lok Sabha battle.

5. Gorakhpur DM bans media entry at counting centreGorakhpur District Magistrate Rajeev Rautela, who earlier sparked a storm by barring journalists from entering the counting centre and did not announce details of counting after the first two rounds, said Pravin Nishad of the Samajwadi Party was leading by 10,598 votes after eight rounds of vote count.

6. UP Assembly adjourned over ban on media's entry to Gorakhpur counting centre Amid the counting of votes for the bypolls, the Uttar Pradesh Assembly was adjourned for 10 minutes on Wednesday, following ruckus over the issue of media being kept out of counting centre in Gorakhpur.

The issue was raised by Samajwadi Party's (SP) Ram Govind Chaudhary. The counting of votes for the by-elections in Gorakhpur and Phulpur constituencies began at 8:00 a.m. At the counting centre in Gorakhpur, District Magistrate (DM) Rajeev Rautela banned media's entry in the later period of the counting session.

7. Bihar bypolls: RJD leading on 2 seats, BJP in oneThe RJD established leads in Araria Lok Sabha seat and Jehanabad Assembly constituency while the BJP was leading in Bhabhua Assembly seat in bypolls in Bihar.According to latest data, RJD's Sarfaraz Alam, who had in the earlier rounds trailed behind BJP's Pradip Kumar Singh, was now leading by about 14,500 votes after ninth rounds of counting of votes.According to election office sources, a total of 28 rounds of counting will take place for results of Araria Lok Sabha seat bypoll necessitated due to demise of RJD MP Mohammad Taslibackn.Alam, who crossed over from JD(U) to Lalu Prasad's party RJD to contest the bypoll, is son of Taslibackn.RJD was also leading by more than 15,000 votes in Jehanabad assembly seat, where the BJP's ally JD(U), headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, has fielded its candidate.

8. Police force used to reign excitement among RJD supportersThere were reports of police resorting to mild use of force outside the counting centre in Jehanabad as young RJD supporters indulged in boisterous jubilations over the news of their candidate Suday Yadav establishing an unassailable lead over former MLA and JD(U) nominee Abhiram Sharma.In Bhabhua, BJP candidate Rinki Rani Pandey seemed comfortably placed with a lead of close to 10,000 votes over her Congress rival Shambhu Singh Patel.

9. How SP, BSP worked in harmony to unsettle BJP On March 4, the BSP announced its decision to support SP candidates in Gorakhpur and Phulpur by-polls, unsettling the top BJP leadership. Since the announcement, the poll scenario has suddenly changed. The prospect of facing the combined strength of SP-BSP has turned the heat on the constituencies represented by Yogi Adityanath and deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya.

10. SP, BSP's violent pastThe two parties have had a bitter, even violent history. This includes the infamous Guest House case of 1995, when Mayawati was assaulted by a mob. To this day, she blames SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal Singh Yadav for the attack. For BSP workers, it helps that the party reins have now passed on to Akhilesh Yadav, who fondly refers to Mayawati as 'Bua' (aunt).

[SonyKongara]

49 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

SP Cycle ne and mana TDP di Cycle gurthune... 

yes..happy day for TDP and telugu prajalu

[Coolindian]

9 minutes ago, SonyKongara said:

yes..happy day for TDP and telugu prajalu

eduti vani otami lo kakaunda mana vijayam lo anadam vethukkunte manchidi, 

akkada BJP voodithe SCS vastada endi.?

[Idassamed]

To be honest, Gorakhpur lo no development. 

[Navyandhra]

CBN tho pettukunte mattikottuku potharani ardham avthadhi yedhava ki 

[Kool_SRG]

8 minutes ago, Idassamed said:

To be honest, Gorakhpur lo no development. 

Recent ga hospital lo chala mandi chanipovatam avi kuda koncham effect undiuntadi...Here in same seat current CM Yogi won last 5 terms.

[argadorn]

good job SP BSP .....modi gadiki baga balsindhi......