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NEW DELHI: Following the Congress’ embarrassing defeat in Rajasthan, it is time for them to take to the drawing board yet again as it loses its stranglehold over its hotbeds, constituency by constituency, as the lotus blooms supreme.
In the constituency of Kotputli in the Kotputli-Behror district, which has seen Congress coming to power for the past decade with efficient ease, the party has lost its bedrock to a newly energised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
To put matters into perspective, the Grand Old Party’s Rajendra Singh Yadav failed to pull through, recording a slender margin of 321 votes, while losing a hard-fought fight with the saffron party’s Hansraj Patel. The Kotputli constituency had been a Congress dominion even in 2013, which saw Congress recording one of its worst defeats to the seat of the Chief Minister’s Office, at 21 seats, as opposed to the BJP’s whopping 163.
Both parties were contesting on the 199 seats.
In 2018, Yadav had pulled through with flying colours with a vote margin of 13,876 votes. During his victory, he defeated the BJP’s Mukesh Goyal, who was left wanting an electoral ticket from the party leadership, but later went on his own way, contesting as an independent candidate.
On the other hand, even in 2013, the people of Kotputli decided to support the Congress, although the entirety of the state felt otherwise. Yadav, contesting from his home turf once again, secured a thumping victory with a margin of 24,687 votes, over BJP’s Banwari Lal Singhal, who had been embroiled in a scandal over hateful social media remarks in 2018.
However, on the other hand, the Congress was able to clinch their way to victory in the Udaipurwaiti constituency, which has evaded the Grand Old Party for the past three terms, as Bhagawana Ram Saini defeated the BJP’s Shubhkaran Choudhary by a margin of 416 votes. Earlier in 2018, the constituency was a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) bastion.
