If LS polls had been organised after 6-8 months, BJP wouldn't have won more than 120 seats: Congress' Sandeep Dikshit
Jul 14, 2024
New Delhi [India], July 14 : After the INDIA bloc won 10 out of 13 seats in the recently concluded by-polls in seven states, Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit said that if the Lok Sabha elections had been held 6-8 months, BJP would not have won more than 120 seats.
On Sunday, Dikshit said that the BJP's graph has been falling since the Lok Sabha elections.
"Right after the look Sabha elections, we have won 12-13 seats in 4-5 states, which clearly indicates that the BJP's graph has been falling. Had the Lok Sabha elections been organised after 6-8 months, BJP would not have won more than 120 seats," he said.
"For the first time, NDA parties are performing better than BJP in their respective states and BJP is absolutely relying on them... BJP has multiple organ failures and is failing in multiple states. It is soon headed to an ICU," he further stated.
The results of the assembly by-polls came as a setback for the BJP, where the party won only two of the 13 seats, with the INDIA bloc winning 10 seats and an independent candidate winning a seat in Bihar.
Polling took place on July 10 for the assembly seats in seven states, including Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh.
The by-elections were held in one seat of Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Punjab, and Madhya Pradesh, two seats of Uttarakhand, three seats of Himachal Pradesh, and four seats of West Bengal.
Uttarakhand witnessed the BJP losing both the two seats and saw the victory of Congress. In Badrinath, Lakhapat Singh Butola defeated Rajendra Singh Bhandari by a margin of 5224 votes, whereas in Manglaur, Qazi Mohammad Nizamuddin secured victory against the BJP's Kartar Singh Bhadana by a margin of 422 votes.
In Himachal Pradesh, Congress secured a win on two out of three seats, where Kamlesh Thakur from Dehra and Hardeep Singh Bawa from Nalagarh secured victory. Ashish Sharma from the BJP secured victory in Hamirpur.
In Punjab, the INDIA alliance's partner, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), secured victory in Jalandhar West. In Tamil Nadu also, INDIA alliance partner DMK secured a win from Vikravandi.
In all four seats of West Bengal, the All India Trinamool Congress, which is the partner in the INDIA alliance, secured victory and defeated the BJP. In Bihar, neither the JDU of the BJP-led NDA nor the RJD of the INDIA alliance managed to secure a victory.
