BJP's Bankipur bastion falls as Prashant Kishor wins bypoll
Patna/Bhopal/delhi, Aug. 4 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered twin setbacks in assembly bypolls on Monday, losing its bastion in Bihar's Bankipur to poll-strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor and failing to win back its stronghold of Datia in Madhya Pradesh from the Congress.
The party won the Manjalpur seat in Gujarat. In Bankipur, a constituency vacated by BJP chief Nitin Nabin who had held the seat since its inception in 2010, Jan Suraaj Party founder Kishor defeated the party's first-time candidate Neeraj Kumar Sinha by 19,324 votes in a byelection widely seen as a prestige battle for the ruling party. P8...
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