Despite wins BJP suffered setbacks in key seats

  • | Tuesday | 20th November, 2018

Dehradun: For ruling BJP, despite winning two prominent mayoral seats and leading on two others, the poll results on Tuesday will be a cause for introspection. The saffron camp was expecting a landslide mandate in the civic polls but instead had to face setbacks in key seats like Doiwala, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat’s turf and Ranikhet, state chief Ajay Bhatt’s constituency. In two important mayoral seats -- Kotdwar and Haridwar—the Congress candidates were ahead of the BJP nominees till the time of filing this report.Commenting on the worrying trends of the party in the two mayoral seats, senior BJP leader and minister Dhan Singh Rawat said: “It looks like that the infighting and rebel candidates in the two seats have hit the party’s poll prospect. But it is still too early to comment till the final results are announced by the state election commission.”What would have the BJP’s top brass especially worried is that in CM’s own constituency Doiwala, his handpicked candidate Nagina Devi was defeated by Congress candidate Sumitra Devi.

Dehradun: For ruling BJP, despite winning two prominent mayoral seats and leading on two others, the poll results on Tuesday will be a cause for introspection. The saffron camp was expecting a landslide mandate in the civic polls but instead had to face setbacks in key seats like Doiwala, CM Trivendra Singh Rawat’s turf and Ranikhet, state chief Ajay Bhatt’s constituency. In two important mayoral seats -- Kotdwar and Haridwar—the Congress candidates were ahead of the BJP nominees till the time of filing this report.Commenting on the worrying trends of the party in the two mayoral seats, senior BJP leader and minister Dhan Singh Rawat said: “It looks like that the infighting and rebel candidates in the two seats have hit the party’s poll prospect. But it is still too early to comment till the final results are announced by the state election commission.”What would have the BJP’s top brass especially worried is that in CM’s own constituency Doiwala, his handpicked candidate Nagina Devi was defeated by Congress candidate Sumitra Devi.

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