Shri Rajput Karni Sena celebrated the victory of the Congress in Rajasthan's Ajmer, Alwar and Mandalgarh bypolls.
A Karni Sena member told media, ''This is not the victory of a party, it is the victory of our Sangharsh Samiti. (The) public supported our sangharsh (struggle) and voted against the BJP. If the BJP follows the same trend, the results will remain the same," reports ANI.
The Congress party gained the majority at all the three constituencies.
According to media reports, Karni Sena leader Lokendra Singh Kalvi pointed out that it is for the first time that candidates from the ruling party didn't win an election in the state. He claimed that the victory of the Congress is the result of the outrage of people who were upset that the BJP didn't take the initiatives to ban Sanjay Leela Bhansali film Padmaavat.
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The Congress thumped the ruling BJP in Rajasthan, clinching both Lok Sabha and one state assembly seats in bypolls in the state where the saffron party is eyeing a second straight term when the assembly elections will be held in December this year.
Karan Singh Yadav of the Congress trounced his nearest BJP rival Jaswant Yadav by a whopping 1,96,496 votes in Alwar, while the main opposition party's nominee for Ajmer Raghu Sharma beat BJP's Swaroop Lamba by an impressive margin of over 84,414 votes, the state election office said.
The Congress's Vivek Dhakad won the Mandalgarh assembly seat, defeating his BJP rival Shakti Singh Hada by nearly 13,000 votes.
Ever since the BJP came to power at the Centre, the social fabric of Rajasthan has seen a violent change. Most recently it was over Padmaavat, wherein the Karni Sena had made life difficult for everyone including the BJP leadership and the government. Cow vigilantism had added to that, particularly in Alwar.
(With agency inputs)
