Rajasthan BJP Chief CP Joshi Talks About Election Results and Future Plans

Rajasthan Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief CP Joshi discussed the party’s performance in recent elections. He acknowledged setbacks in some seats but highlighted the benefits people have received under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP-led governance.

Speaking on Saturday, Joshi said, “In the Assembly elections, we secured a huge majority and formed the government. In the Lok Sabha elections, the BJP received 49.24 percent of the votes, 12 percent more than the Congress.”

Joshi added, “On some seats, we did face setbacks. However, if people have benefited from multiple initiatives, it is only during the BJP regime. The tribal ministry also came under the BJP regime. Based on our work in the state, we will further expand the BJP.”

The Opposition INDIA alliance, which includes Congress, Trinamool Congress (TMC), AAP, and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), won 13 Assembly seats across seven states in recent by-elections. In Punjab, AAP’s Mohinder Bhagat won the Jalandhar West seat by over 23,000 votes. In West Bengal, Trinamool Congress candidates won all four seats where elections were held. Himachal Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu’s wife, Kamlesh Thakur, won the Dehra elections. The Congress also won the Nalagarh seat in Himachal Pradesh, while the BJP’s Ashish Sharma won in Hamirpur. In Tamil Nadu, the DMK’s Anniyur Siva won the Vikravandi assembly seat by nearly 60,000 votes. In Uttarakhand, Congress candidates won both the Badrinath and Manglaur seats. In Madhya Pradesh, the BJP’s Kamslesh Pratap Shahi won the Amarwar seat.

The counting of votes for the 13 legislative assembly seats spread across seven states began on Saturday morning. Voting was held on Wednesday for the assembly seats in Bihar, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Himachal Pradesh. These bypolls were the first since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, which saw the BJP win 240 seats–32 short of the majority. The NDA, however, managed to cross the halfway mark of 272 with a total tally of 293 seats. The Congress-led INDIA bloc clinched 232 seats.