Boost for Modi as BJP wins 5 seats in Gujarat by-polls

After its poor show in the Lok Sabha elections, BJP on Monday received a boost in the Assembly bypolls registering an impressive victory in Gujarat and bagging one seat each in Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand where it got a majority in the State Assembly.

In Gujarat, the ruling BJP bagged five of the seven seats that went to polls on September 10 while Congress wrested Dhoraji and Kodinar seats from the ruling party.

The BJP, which had run a low-key campaign in the byelection following the party’s poor show in the Lok Sabha polls and subsequent defeat in the Junagadh civic body polls, has wrested Dehgam, Jasdan, Chotila and Danta from the Congress.

In Sami, BJP candidate Bhavsing Rathod, who had won the last Assembly polls from the same seat on a Congress ticket, has retained his seat contesting on BJP ticket in the bypoll.

The Congress has wrested BJP’s bastion Kodinar in Saurashtra while retaining Dhoraji, a party stronghold.

“The results of the byelections show that the BJP still remains a preferred choice of the people of Gujarat,” said BJP general secretary Jayantibhai Barot.

Of the seven seats where byelections were held, six were with Congress and one with BJP.

Courtesy betathehindu.com

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