Congress President Rahul Gandhi will today meet three winners of the recently-conducted Rajasthan bypoll where the party wrested one Assembly and two Lok Sabha seats from the ruling BJP.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi will today meet three winners of the recently-conducted Rajasthan bypoll where the party wrested one Assembly and two Lok Sabha seats from the ruling BJP.
Alwar Lok Sabha MP Dr Karan Singh Yadav, Ajmer MP Raghu Sharma and Mandalgarh MLA Vivek Dhakar will be accompanied by Rajasthan Congress president Sachin Pilot, former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, senior leaders CP Joshi and Avinash Pandey to the meeting with the Congress chief.
The meeting will take place at 9:45 am at Mr Gandhi's residence.
Congress candidates defeated the BJP rivals to win the Alwar and Ajmer Lok Sabha and Mandalgarh Assembly seats by impressive margins last week.
Gandhi had hailed the party's Rajasthan unit for its impressive show, calling the outcome a "rejection" of the BJP by the people.
"Well done Rajasthan Congress! Proud of each and every one of you. This is a rejection of the BJP by the people of Rajasthan," he had tweeted on February 1 after the bypoll results were announced.
The margin of victory registered by the Congress had been striking with its candidate Karan Singh Yadav trouncing his nearest BJP rival Jaswant Yadav by 1,96,496 votes in Alwar, and the main opposition party's nominee for Ajmer Raghu Sharma beating BJP's Swaroop Lamba by over 84,414 votes.
The Congress's Vivek Dhakad won the Mandalgarh Assembly seat, defeating his nearest BJP rival Shakti Singh Hada by nearly 13,000 votes.
Pilot on Sunday said the recent Congress victory has busted the "myth" of the BJP being an election-winning machine and sent out a message that its "jumlebaazi" (rhetoric) will not work.
He said the results had come at a time when the BJP was on the "back foot".
"The fact that they were forced to make a so-called pro- farmer budget shows that the agrarian distress all over India is having its impact and the BJP will have to pay a heavy price for it," Pilot told PTI in an interview here.
The Congress put up a strong performance in Rajasthan where its candidates wrested the Alwar and Ajmer Lok Sabha and Mandalgarh Assembly seats from the BJP by impressive margins last week.
Pilot, who is largely seen as the Congress's chief ministerial face in Rajasthan, said the elections were "very crucial" as they came just seven or eight months before Assembly polls in the state.
The Rajasthan Congress chief said the victory would also have a bearing on the upcoming elections in other states as the "myth" of the BJP being an election- winning machine has been busted.
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