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Congress suffers jolt in Rajasthan as BJP set to win big in local body polls
Rajasthan Politics

Congress suffers jolt in Rajasthan as BJP set to win big in local body polls

| @indiablooms | 09 Dec 2020, 12:24 pm

Jaipur/IBNS: In a jolt to the feud-hit Congress in Rajasthan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to script an impressive performance in the local body polls held in the desert state in November.

As the results are coming out, the Congress is trailing in 21 of 33 districts.

The BJP is leading in 13 of 21 zila parishads or district-level boards.

In panchayat samitis or block-level boards in villages, the BJP is leading in 93 of 222 seats while the Congress is ahead in 81.

Even in the middle of counting of votes, the BJP has started celebrating its victory which it thinks is imminent.

BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda tweeted, "We are grateful for the way rural voters, farmers and women have reposed their faith in us in Rajasthan's Panchayati Raj and Zila Parishad polls. This victory is a sign of the faith that villages, poor, farmers and labourers have on Prime Minister Narendra Modi."

The Congress' poor performance (provisional) came after an open power tussle between its two camps, one led by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and the other by Sachin Pilot.

Though Pilot later returned to the partyfold somehow restoring the Congress' prestige, by then he had lost the post of Deputy Chief Minister.

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