Rajasthan Bypoll 2024 End result: BJP Wins 5 Of seven Meeting Seats – News18
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The BJP gained 5 of the seven seats within the Rajasthan Meeting bypolls
Of the seven seats the place the bypolls have been held on November 13, Congress held 4 and BJP, RLP and BAP held one every.
The ruling BJP in Rajasthan on Saturday gained 5 of the seven Meeting seats the place bypolls have been held, elevating its tally in the home to 119, whereas the Congress and Bharat Adivasi Occasion (BAP) bagged one seat every.
Nagaur MP Hanuman Beniwal’s Rashtriya Loktantrik Occasion (RLP) confronted a drubbing because it misplaced the Khinwsar seat from the place Beniwal’s spouse Kanika Beniwal had contested.
Of the seven seats the place bypolls have been held on November 13, the Congress had 4 and the BJP, the RLP and the BAP had one every.
With the outcomes of the bypolls declared on Saturday, the BJP has gained 4 seats, the Congress misplaced three seats, the RLP misplaced its single seat — Khinwsar — and the BAP maintained its tally by successful the Chorasi seat.
The 200-member Rajasthan Legislative Meeting will now have 119 MLAs of the BJP, 66 of the Congress, 4 of the BAP, two of the BSP, one of many Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and eight independents.
Whereas the outcomes have boosted the morale of the BJP management, particularly Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma and state BJP chief Madan Rathore, the Congress stated it could evaluation its efficiency.
Nonetheless, Cupboard minister Kirodi Meena was left sulking as his brother and BJP candidate Jag Mohan misplaced the Dausa Meeting phase — the lone seat the place the Congress registered a win.
Meena had left no stone unturned to make sure a victory for his brother who’s a former bureaucrat. Nonetheless, he misplaced by a slim margin of two,300 votes.
Meena had submitted his resignation after the social gathering’s defeat in a number of Lok Sabha seats in jap Rajasthan within the basic elections held a couple of months in the past. The resignation, nevertheless, was not accepted.
The social gathering gave a ticket to Jag Mohan from Dausa which many noticed as an try to pacify the veteran chief.
Reacting to the outcome, Meena stated he was pained however would proceed to maneuver on the trail of battle.
The BJP gained Jhunjhunu (Rajendra Bhamboo), Deoli-Uniara (Rajendra Gurjar), Khinwsar (Rewant Ram Danga), Salumbar (Shanta Amrit Lal Meena) and Ramgarh (Sukhwant Singh) seats.
Salumbar seat fell vacant after BJP MLA Amrit Lal Meena died. The social gathering gave ticket to his spouse Shanta Meena who gained the election, however with a slim margin of 1,285 votes.
The BAP candidate stood second within the outcomes whereas the Congress candidate secured the third place.
The Ramgarh seat in Alwar district additionally fell vacant following the loss of life of Congress MLA Zubair Khan. The Congress social gathering fielded his son Aryaan Zubair, hoping to get sympathy votes, nevertheless, he misplaced to BJP’s Sukhvant Singh by a margin of 13,636 votes.
The Deoli-Uniara seat in Tonk district was gained by BJP’s Rajendra Gujar by a margin of 41,121 votes. His nearest rival was Naresh Meena, an impartial candidate.
Naresh Meena had slapped an SDM in the course of the day of polling on November 13, accusing him of forcing folks to vote. The villages in Samravta village had boycotted polling and Meena was supporting them.
Meena and his supporters held a dharna outdoors the polling sales space after slapping the SDM and when police eliminated them after polling was over, violence erupted within the village through which many autos have been burnt and a number of other policemen have been injured.
Congress’s Harish Meena was the MLA from Deoli-Uniara earlier than being elected as an MP from Tonk-Sawai Madhopur.
The RLP misplaced the Khinwsar seat, a stronghold of social gathering supremo Hanuman Beniwal who had vacated the seat after successful the Lok Sabha election.
BJP candidate Rewant Ram Danga gained the Khinwsar seat by a margin of 13,901 votes. Danga had misplaced the seat within the 2023 Meeting election to Beniwal by a slim margin of two,059 votes.
Beniwal gained the Jat-dominated Khinsvar seat in 2008 as a BJP candidate and as an impartial candidate within the 2013 Meeting elections. He shaped the RLP and gained the seat within the 2018 Meeting elections.
The Jat chief gained the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Nagaur in alliance with the BJP and fielded his brother Narayan Beniwal within the Meeting bypoll in Khinwsar. Narayan Beniwal gained the bypoll.
The RLP was a part of the INDIA bloc within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections however the Congress determined to contest the bypolls with none alliance and fielded its candidate Dr Ratan Chaudhary in Khinwsar. Nonetheless, she might safe solely 5,454 votes.
Danga was an in depth affiliate of Hanuman Beniwal when he shaped the RLP however later joined the BJP.
Former Congress MP Jyoti Mirdha, who additionally joined the BJP forward of the Meeting elections final yr, was instrumental in bringing Danga to the saffron social gathering fold.
Hanuman Beniwal and Jyoti Mirdha have been previous rivals. Beniwal defeated Jyoti Mirdha within the 2019 and 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Bharat Adivasi Occasion candidate Anil Kumar Katara gained the tribal-dominated Chorasi seat within the Dungarpur district, which fell vacant after BAP’s Rajkumar Roat was elected to Lok Sabha this yr from Banswara-Dungarpur seat In Jhunjhunu, BJP candidate Rajendra Bhamboo gained by defeating his nearest rival and Congress candidate Amit Ola by a margin of 42,848 votes.
Amit Ola is the son of Jhunjhunu MP and former minister Brijendra Ola. The defeat comes as a setback for the politically influential Ola household.
BJP president Rathore stated the outcomes have added to the duty of the BJP and the state authorities will proceed to work to fulfil its guarantees made to the folks.
“Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, all leaders and employees of the social gathering labored onerous to make sure the victory of the social gathering within the Meeting bypolls,” he informed reporters on the social gathering workplace the place celebrations broke out.
CM Sharma additionally congratulated the newly elected MLAs.
PCC chief Govind Singh Dotasra, nevertheless, stated the BJP might have elevated its tally, however the defeat of minister Meena’s brother in Dausa was a defeat of the federal government.
“The ruling social gathering normally has an edge in bypolls. We are going to analyse the outcomes and causes for the defeat,” Dotasra stated.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – IANS)
