What the win in Jasdan means to the BJP
Ahmedabad, Dec 24: The BJP took its tally to a 100 in the Gujarat assembly after winning the Jasdan by-poll comfortably. Kunvarji Bavaliya defeated his nearest rival Avsar Nakiya of the Congress by a margin of 19,979 votes.
The result is an important one for the BJP considering this was a Congress stronghold. Incidentally the by-poll was necessitated after Bavaliya quit the Congress and joined the BJP.
Jasdan by-election: BJP's Kunvarji Bavaliya wins by massive margin of 19,985 votes
First and foremost the BJP would be happy since it touched the 100 mark in the 182 member Gujarat assembly. Moreover, the fact that Bavaliya swung it for the BJP in a Congress stronghold could be an indicator that a similar modus operandi would be used in future.
Bavaliya
also
managed
to
increase
his
victory
margin
on
this
seat
which
he
had
won
on
a
Congress
ticket
in
2017.
In
2017,
Bavaliya
had
won
this
seat
by
a
margin
of
9,277
votes.
Moreover
this
is
only
the
second
time
that
the
BJP
is
winning
the
Jasdan
seat,
since
the
formation
of
Gujarat
in
1960.
The by-poll had become a matter of prestige for both parties. The Congress after its victories in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan had said that it was the farmers who had backed them as the BJP had failed to address their issues. The win in Jasdan in this context is important considering that fact that it consists of several rural areas.