In democracy any party or individual has right to contest elections. However, how BJP is benefited in multi-cornered contest became evident once again when the by election result in Gopalganj was announced Sunday.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Sunday said that despite the defeat, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) made a dent in the BJP s core vote bank after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate won the Gopalganj bypoll by a close margin.
According to the Election Commission's data, AIMIM candidate Abdul Salam polled 12,214 votes around seven times more than the winning margin of the BJP candidate, Kusum Devi. Devi received 70,053 (41.6%) votes while RJD's Mohan Prasad Gupta polled 68,259 (40.53%) votes.
As the results of Assembly bypolls held in seven seats spread across six states were announced, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) managed to win four seats while parties like Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Shiv Sena of Uddhav Thackeray faction bagged one seat each in their respective States of dominance.