BJP expects record win in Kedarnath bypoll, women & migrant U’khandis voted in large numbers: Bhatt
Friday, 22 NOVEMBER 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
Even as the Congress is claiming that its candidate is winning the Kedarnath Vidhan Sabha bypoll, the Bharatiya Janata Party has stressed otherwise. The BJP State president Mahendra Bhatt said that the party will achieve a record victory when the result is announced on November 23 because the people chose development and heritage, the women voted overwhelmingly in favour of the party candidate and the BJP succeeded in motivating the migrant voters of the constituency to cast their vote. Bhatt also thanked the party workers for the hard work they had put in for the bypoll.
In an information interaction with the media at the party’s State office here a day after polling in the Kedarnath bypoll, Bhatt said that the BJP workers had worked diligently in the election. “Based on the information we have received from the booth so far, it is certain that the women voters, especially, are ensuring the victory of the BJP candidate Asha Nautiyal. The people in the constituency appear happy with the development works facilitated in the area by the double-engine government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. This is also a reason for people in this region voting for the BJP in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabha elections since 2019. The manner in which the women voters were seen queuing in large numbers to cast their votes is a sign of our candidate’s victory. Apart from this the youths were also enthusiastic because of the strict anti-copying law enacted by the Dhami government and government jobs provided to 19,000 youths,” Bhatt said.
The BJP State president further said that the interactions held with migrant Uttarakhandis to break the tradition of less polling percentage in bypolls made a considerable impact. More than 1,700 party supporters and other Uttarakhandis reached the Kedarnath constituency to exercise their franchise in the bypoll, he said.
