Gujarat Rajya Sabha election |
BJP president Amit Shah won, and lost. He won for himself a Rajya Sabha seat from Gujarat, making his debut as a parliamentarian. On the day he completed three years as the party chief, Shah lost on his home turf the reputation of a leader who knows the art of winning even the hardest of political battles. For next six years, Shah will live with the grudge of having failed to defeat Congress`s Ahmed Patel, whom the 52-year-old BJP president is said to hold guilty for his legal troubles during the UPA regime. Patel`s victory in Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls comes despite Shah and his team putting their entire might behind rebel Congress leader Balwant Singh Rajput, who was the BJP`s third candidate for the August 8 Rajya Sabha election. BJP`s second nominee Smiriti Irani also won from Gujarat. The state will vote to elect a new government later this year in December. Patel`s victory will inject a new lease of life into the beleaguered Congress, which is smarting under a series of electoral losses at the hands of the Naendra Modi-Amit Shah combination.
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