Bhartiya Janta Party has managed to retain the Uttarakhand Tharali bypoll seat. In what was being seen as a direct fight between BJP’s Munni Devi and Congress candidate Jeetram, the former finished a nail biting end led to an easy win with a margin of over 1900 against her closest contender Congress’s Prof Jeetram.
The Tharali seat was seen as hot-seat for the two leading political parties, with the BJP wooing its voters by highlighting the achievements of the Trivendra Singh Rawat run government and the Congress close at it heals counter-attacking their claims.
The Tharali seat was left vacant after the passing away of BJP’s Tharali MLA Maganlal. Munni Devi, wife of late Maganlal was chosen as a BJP candidate for the seat and 2017 candidate for Congress Professor Jeetram was a repeat candidate this time around too.
Both political parties had marathon rallies by Senior leaders for this much-coveted seat, including the Chief Minister and his Cabinet as well as former Chief Minister Harish Rawat and senior Congress leaders gathering support for Jeetram. A total of 53,048 voters voted on 28th May to decide the fate of the contestants.
With counting over, and BJP retaining the seat, this win will definitely give that much awaited shot in the arm to the Trivendra Singh Rawat led government and also to the Centre which can take some consolation after a dismissal performance in by-poll results from other States.
