Whatever be the election, every party and organization wants that victory comes in its bag. For this, various types of moves are made before the election. This time before the Lok Sabha elections, BJP opened its doors to other parties and organizations including Congress. During this time, BJP pulled nine former MLAs including one MLA of Congress into its fold, but now the results of the Lok Sabha elections are telling that this move of its did not show much effect. In view of all this, the BJP leadership is now going to review the performance of the party MLAs as well as former MLAs.
The target was to achieve 75 percent of the total voting
BJP had set a target of achieving 75 percent of the total voting in the Lok Sabha elections this time. In this sequence, the party launched a campaign for the arrival of leaders and workers of other parties. Before the Lok Sabha elections, a large number of leaders of Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, BSP, UKD and other parties and organizations and representatives of bodies and panchayats joined the BJP. The party claims that more than 15 thousand people joined BJP in this campaign. The party’s intention behind this was that there should be no shortage in achieving the target of victory in the elections.
During the campaign, BJP made a dent in the Congress and brought MLA Rajendra Bhandari from Badrinath seat to its side. Apart from this, former MLAs Vijaypal Sajwan (Gangotri), Mal Chand (Purola), Mahavir Singh Rangad (Dhanolti), Shailendra Singh Rawat (Kotdwar), Dan Singh (Kumaon), Haridas (Haridwar), former minister Dinesh Dhanai (Tehri) and Dinesh Agarwal (Dharampur-Dehradun) also joined BJP. The party was hoping that by taking the support of these former MLAs and getting huge public support in their assembly constituencies, it would set new standards in its Vijay Yatra. Although, the results of the Lok Sabha elections were in favor of the BJP and it created history by winning all the five seats in the state for the third consecutive time, but the performance was not very good in the assembly constituencies from where former MLAs joined the party. Especially in the assembly constituencies of the hills.
Congress lost about nine thousand votes
The counting figures are pointing in this direction. If we take the Badrinath assembly constituency falling under Garhwal parliamentary seat, then BJP got only 1259 votes more than the votes it got in the last assembly elections. It is a different matter that Congress lost about nine thousand votes there. Similarly, if we look at Purola assembly constituency falling under Tehri Garhwal parliamentary seat, then BJP could not even reach the performance of the assembly there. Similar situation prevailed in Gangotri assembly constituency. That too, when former MLA Malchand in Purola and former MLA Vijaypal Sajwan in Gangotri had joined BJP. In these assembly constituencies, independent Babi Panwar made a huge dent in the vote bank of both the parties BJP and Congress by getting more than 25 thousand votes in Purola and more than 19 thousand votes in Gangotri.
If we talk about Tehri assembly constituency, former minister Dinesh Dhanai, who contested as an independent in the last assembly elections, stood second by getting more than 18 thousand votes. He was with the BJP in this Lok Sabha election. In the Lok Sabha election, this constituency got 18 thousand votes, which is one thousand less than the votes it got in the Vidhan Sabha constituency. A similar scenario was seen in Dhanolti Vidhan Sabha constituency. In the Lok Sabha election, the BJP lagged behind by more than four thousand votes from its performance in the Vidhan Sabha election. In both these Vidhan Sabha constituencies, independent candidate Babi Panwar caused damage to both the BJP and the Congress. Let us tell you that the BJP has the Purola, Gangotri, Tehri and Dhanolti Vidhan Sabha seats. In the plain areas of Dharmpur, Kotdwar and Haridwar, the performance of the BJP was better than the Vidhan Sabha election. In view of all these circumstances, the BJP has started brainstorming.
