New Delhi: After the Lok Sabha polls setback
and the internal dissensions that followed, BJP on Monday had
something to cheer when it won five Assembly by-elections in
Gujarat and one each in Madhya Pradesh and Uttarakhand, which
the party hailed as the beginning of a new victory trail.
"It seems this is the beginning of a new victory trail
which started with the MCD polls. We look at the future with a
new hope," BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad said.
In Gujarat, BJP won five of the seven Assembly seats,
where by-polls were held on September 10. Of the seven,
Congress had held six and BJP one.
"We have won Jasdan seat in Rajkot district in Gujarat
which BJP had never since Independence," Prasad said.
The BJP MP said these wins have come at a time when the
UPA government was "tom-tomming its great achievements in the
first 100 days" of coming to power.
"It shows that the people of Gujarat have faith in BJP
and the Modi government," Prasad said, adding that it had come
despite the "motivated and renewed campaign" against Modi by
Congress using the Ishrat Jahan encounter controversy.
In Madhya Pradesh, BJP won one of the two by-elections.
This seat was earlier held by Congress.
The victory in Vikasnagar seat of Uttarakhand was also a
shot in the arm for BJP. Munna Singh Chauhan had vacated this
seat (after winning on a BJP ticket) and joined BSP.
Bureau Report
First Published: Monday, September 14, 2009, 19:59