Congress party will review it’s poor performance of Bihar assembly election results in the coming Congress working committee (CWC) meeting. According to CWC member Tariq Anwar, Congress party’s weak show prevented the Mahagathbandhan from reaching the half way mark and he said “that there should be an introspection as it is a fact that they had contested 41 seats in 2015 and won 27 of them. We should find out why this time we could only win 19 despite contesting 70 seats.” According to state Congress leaders, the party was given difficult seats and in last moment and the selection of candidate was also not up to the mark.
CASTE STILL PLAYED AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN BIHAR ASEMBLY ELECTIONS
After so much discussion and talks on the role of caste and claims of caste party alignment becoming fluid and making caste irrelevant in Bijar election., the results clearly show that caste has played a major role and BJP, Congress are mainly upper caste parties and RJD and JD(U) have been preferred by Yadav’s and Kurmi’s and other OBC’s. BJP this time has given 47.3 per cent of their tickets to upper caste predominantly Rajput’s and Baniyas. Congress distributed 40 per cent of 70 tickets to upper caste candidates and 27 per cent to Muslim candidate. JD(U) has given more tickets to Kurmi, Yadav’s and 25 per cent tickets to non Yadav and non kurmi but RJD distributed nearly a third of its tickets to Yadav candidate and remaining 70 per cent to other caste according to local demography and patterns of dominance. 12.5 per cent of its tickets were given to Muslims.
WOMEN VOTERS PARTICIPATED IN MORE NUMBERS IN BIHAR ASSEMBLY POLL 2020
The ban on alcohol and distribution of cycles to girls by Nitish Kumar showed the influence on the results in this election by high turnout of women voters where 99 seats of NDA came from the constituencies with higher voting percentage of women than men. Analysis of the result shows that turn out of women was higher than men in 166 of total 243 constituencies. Women voters seemed to have come to help JD(U) as 37 of party’s 43 wins came from these constituencies. Although Bihar saw a very high turnout of women voters but it is lower than five year ago. The three phase Bihar assembly election recorded an overall 57 per cent polling while the voting by women registered a higher percentage of 59.69 against 54.68 per cent polling by men.
UJJARS CALLED OFF PROTESTS IN RAJASTHAN AFTER TALKING WITH CM
After occupying railway tracks on the Delhi-Mumbai line in Bharatpur district for 11days, Gujjar leaders called off their protest for reservation and other demands on Thursday. Gujjar leaders had a meeting with a cabinet sub-committee and also a meeting was held with chief minister Ashok Ghelot in Jaipur. Gujjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti led by convenor Kirori Singh Bainsla held a talk with ministers BD Kalla, Tikaram Jully and Subhash Garg and signed a six point agreement. (IPA)
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