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| By-election Losses Cloud PM Modi's |
| By-election Losses Cloud PM Modi's Homecoming in Gujarat
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| INDIA
, 16-September-2014
13:7:6 PM |
| The BJP's losses in by-elections today took some sheen off Narendra Modi's homecoming, his first visit to Gujarat after he took over as Prime Minister in May this year.
He was last here to thank the people of his state for the spectacular victory in the Lok Sabha elections that it contributed to by handing the BJP all 26 seats.
Four months later, as he landed in Gandhinagar today, the Congress had won three of nine assembly seats for which by-elections were held. It has won at the cost of the BJP, which had vacated all those seats after its legislators became MPs.
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Amid analysis on whether that four-month absence of Mr Modi has cost the BJP those three seats, the party also has to deconstruct what went wrong in Uttar Pradesh, where the Samajwadi Party has made big gains at its cost, and in Rajasthan, another state it swept in the national elections but where the Congress has won three out of four seats for which by-elections were held.
At a function today in Ahmedabad, Mr Modi thanked the people of the state for their warm welcome.
It is the Prime Minister's 64th birthday tomorrow, but he has called off all celebration and requested that party workers contribute towards relief work in flood-ravaged Jammu and Kashmir instead. Tomorrow, Mr Modi will also welcome Chinese President Xi Jinping to Gujarat on the first leg of his India visit.
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