The meeting elections to 3 states – Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya and bypolls to 5 states – Arunachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Jharkhand have thrown a combined bag of outcomes. While the NDA has retained Tripura and Nagaland, it has agreed to increase assist to the NPP in Meghalaya. On the opposite hand, Congress has gained bypolls from West Bengal’s Sagardighi, Maharasthra’s Kasba Peth and Tamil Nadu’s Erode East seat. Senior Congress chief Jairam Ramesh tried to assert a powerful present by Congress utilizing the bypoll wins and was trolled by Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
“Today’s Assembly Election Results: -INC wins Kasba Peth in Maharashtra after 33 years. -INC wins Sagardighi seat in West Bengal after 51 years. -INC up from 0 seats to 5 in Tripura. -5 seats in Meghalaya (Despite hijacking of 21 sitting MLAs). -Tamil Nadu By-Election INC,” stated Ramesh in a tweet.
Reacting to his tweet, Sarma stated that Congress continues to stay in denial regardless of election losses.Â
“One must appreciate Congress’s ability to live in denial by spinning narratives – converting a washout in three states into an achievement!” stated Sarma.
One should admire Congress’s skill to stay in denial by spinning narratives – changing a washout in three states into an achievement! https://t.co/EK7TmgZoZr
— Himanta Biswa Sarma (@himantabiswa) March 2, 2023
Noteworthy to say that Congress joined fingers with Left to contest Tripura polls however didn’t dislodge the BJP-IPFT authorities. In reality, the newly-born political outfit Tipra Motha has managed to emerge because the principal opposition get together within the state with 13 seats whereas the Congress gained simply 3 seats and Left 11.Â
In Nagaland, Congress drew a clean with simply round three per cent votes.Â
In Maharashtra, the BJP didn’t retain the Kasba Peth Assembly seat, its stronghold in Maharashtra’s Pune district, as Congress candidate Ravindra Dhangekar defeated the saffron get together nominee Hemant Rasane within the bypoll. The BJP was in energy within the Kasba Peth constituency for 28 years. Girish Bapat, the present BJP MP from Pune, represented the seat 5 occasions until 2019.
The ruling DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance (SPA) retained the Erode East bypoll section in Tamil Nadu with an emphatic win towards the Okay Palaniswami-led AIADMK, prompting Chief Minister M Okay Stalin to invoice it as an endorsement of his almost two-year-old authorities’s “Dravidian model” of governance.
