Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 25: Although BJP has reached an all-time high of 29 assembly seats in the just concluded assembly elections, the central leadership of the party is not convinced with the performance as the high command was expecting 30 to 35 seats.
Highly placed sources said that after the distribution of party mandates for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand assembly elections, the party’s central leadership will initiate the exercise to ascertain the reasons for the party's below-expected performance.
Sources said that the party has lost a couple of seats due to the wrong distribution of the party mandate while some seats in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri were lost due to mismanagement at the eleventh hour.
Sources said that the party leadership has taken very serious note of the defeat of the BJP candidates in the Ramban and Bani Assembly segments which the party had won in the 2014 assembly elections. “Both Ramban and Bani seats were on the list of the ‘A’ category because the party was confident of retaining these segments”, sources said and added that both the seats were lost allegedly due to wrong distribution of tickets.
Notably on the Ramb The BJP’s central leadership will initiate the exercise to ascertain the reasons for the party’s below-expected performance.
The party has lost a couple of seats due to the wrong distribution of the party mandate.
Some seats in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri were lost due to mismanagement at the eleventh hour.
The party leadership has taken very serious note of the defeat of the BJP candidates in the Ramban and Bani Assembly segments which the party had won in the 2014 assembly elections.
After the elections, BJP leaders who supported the mandate for Rakesh Singh Thakur proved wrong as Parihar emerged as runner-up while Thakur was pushed to third place. Winning National Conference candidate Arjun Singh Raju secured 28425 votes while as BJP’s rebel candidate Suraj Singh Parihar got 19412 votes and BJP’s official candidate managed to get 17511 votes.
In the Bani Assembly segment, local workers cautioned the party against repeating the former MLA Jewan Lal but some Jammu-based leaders were adamant to repeat him.
Sources said that the central leadership has also taken note of the development in the Chhamb assembly segment where BJP’s official candidate Rajeev Sharma and the party’s rebel candidate Narinder Singh got more votes than Independent candidate Satish Sharma who emerged victorious.
Sources said that the central leadership is not convinced with the results in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri where the party was expecting less than four seats. | 