A huge blow to saffron party in Uttarakhand. Nagar Palika chairman’s Doivala seat of CM’s constituency defeated

While the 95 percent results of all the seats of civic elections in Uttarakhand have been declared, there is a shocking news for the entire BJP of the state as the main seat of the president of Nagar Palika in Doivala assembly constituency of chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat has been lost to Congress with the saffron Party candidate Nagina Rani losing despite recounting in the four booths.

This defeat is being analysed as the chief minister’s personal loss and may have far reaching political implications in the saffron party’s state politics in the near future.

Doivala being the assembly constituency of the incumbent chief minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, the attention of the entire media and the political anaysts was confined to this seat.

It was being considered as the prestigious seat but the defeat of  BJP candidate in theNagar Palika chairperson’s post has infact created political problems for the chief minister who will have to work hard to keep the electorates in good humour in his home constituency in Doivala, in the near future.

Meanwhile the results of almost all the 38 city council chiefs’ seats ( Nagar Palika Adhyaksh) of Uttarakhand have been declared with the BJP scoring victory in 17 seats with the Congress winning on seats going to the Congress Party, one to the BSP and 11 to others.

The opposition Congress has bagged victory in about 135 councillor seats and secured 3 Mayoral seats out of total seven, while in 2013 its performance was too low.

This time even in majority of the city wards good number of independents have scored victory against the ruling party BJP and the Congress.

In the Pauri Garhwal constituency the BJP candidate Yashpal Benam has won for the third time as he had joined the BJP just a few days ago before being given the saffron party ticket. He had won for the third term in succession.

The results however don’t show the ruling party in comfortable position as compared to its performance in the last assembly elections in which saffron and Modi wave had contributed tremendously helping BJP to win the 57 seats, the highest tally since the state came into separate entity in the year 2000.

The defeat of the BJP candidate in the Nagar Palika chairman seat under the chief minister’s assembly constituency’s jurisdiction namely Nagina Rai is also a matter of great worry for the chief minister as the media would be prominently highlighting this particular defeat as a banner news.

The local civic elections are considered to be the political barometer of any state as the voters at the grass root level vote in these elections. They predict the future political mood or tilt of the state’s electorates.

It seems that the BJP which was on 85 percent flight in the previous assembly election in which it scored a historic majority, winning 57 seats and earlier  all the MP seats, this civic election result has brought its politocal prospects down to fifty percent , even bit low , despite the very fact that the entire state ministers, lawmakers, MPs and even chief minister had left no stone unturned to ensure party’s landslide victory.

However, the party fared better in the Kumaon division compared to the Garhwal division from where belongs the chief minister.