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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Telangana portion celebrated the NDA’s emphatic triumph successful the Bihar Assembly elections adjacent arsenic it sought to downplay its mediocre show successful the Jubilee Hills bypoll, wherever its campaigner Lankala Deepak Reddy secured lone 17,061 votes and mislaid his deposit connected Friday.
Party president N. Ramchander Rao, Union Minister of State for Home Bandi Sanjay Kumar, legislature enactment person A. Maheshwar Reddy, and different leaders distributed sweets astatine the State bureau to people the Bihar victory. However, the bypoll effect was a setback, arsenic the BJP campaigner polled less votes than successful the 2023 Assembly elections, wherever helium had garnered 25,866 votes.
Addressing a property league later, Mr. Rao claimed that the bypoll was efficaciously won by the Majlis Party, which had ‘loaned’ its campaigner to the Congress. “We person ne'er won a bulk successful this constituency owed to the earlier BRS-MIM tie-up. Our leaders and cadre worked hard, but misuse of authoritative machinery and communal authorities helped the ruling enactment win,” helium alleged.
Mr. Rao further pointed retired that the Congress had antecedently mislaid deposits successful bypolls similar Dubbak during the BRS regime. Stating that the leaders and cadre worked hard for the past 1 period for the campaign, helium expressed assurance that BJP would bounce backmost successful the adjacent Assembly elections and travel to power. “We volition proceed to combat this anti-people authorities and volition soon denote a protestation programme,” helium said.
Union Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said the enactment would reappraisal its bypoll show and blamed minorities for voting ‘one-sided’. He urged the bulk assemblage to ‘awaken’ to this trend. “NDA/BJP governments are successful powerfulness successful 20 States, portion the Congress has been reduced to a sub-regional force, winning less seats than adjacent the Majlis Party successful Bihar. In astir States, radical person voted for improvement but present the Congress authorities has nary funds for immoderate work,” helium asserted.
He besides demanded that Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy bid a probe into the assets of deceased BRS MLA Maganti Gopinath and questioned however BRS could assertion to beryllium the main absorption erstwhile it had mislaid 2 bypolls, MLC elections, and failed to triumph a azygous MP seat. “We are going to beryllium the alternative. Our adjacent people is West Bengal, followed by Telangana,” helium said.
Union Minister G. Kishan Reddy, who led the party’s bypoll campaign, released a connection wherever helium excessively hailed the Bihar verdict and alleged that the Congress triumph successful Jubilee Hills was aided by AIMIM’s enactment and large-scale currency distribution.
The BJP volition formally study to the Election Commission connected this aspect. He expressed assurance that the enactment would grow its beingness successful Telangana, citing its caller electoral gains. Mr. Maheshwar Reddy accused the Chief Minister of ‘threatening’ voters by informing that schemes would beryllium stopped during the campaign.
However, Nizamabad MP D. Aravind admitted that the bypoll effect was ‘depressing’ for enactment workers. In a station connected X (formerly Twitter), helium wrote: “A spot we could person won oregon astatine slightest travel adjacent second. We are performing dismally. Why is the full federation voting 1 mode and Telangana the other? If BJP doesn’t program and marque a factual strategy, Congress volition consolidate further successful the adjacent Assembly elections.” Senior BJP leaders declined to remark connected his remarks.
