Organisaitonal failure behind BJP poll debacle

Statesman News Service

MALDA, 26 MAY: The Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, in Malda, Have completed their post-poll analysis and blamed organizational weaknesses for their failure.

BJP candidate, Mr. Amlan Bhaduri said he did not believe that, people here voted in favour of the Congress, to firm a stable government in the Centre. “BJP voters cased their votes against the CPI-M candidate in North Malda on various issues, when they understood that the candidate would not be able to win here”, Mr. Bhaduri said.

According to him, nearly 18,000 voters in Gazole, belonging to the BJP, did not cast their votes for their candidate , but preferred to cast cotes for their candidate , but preferred to cast votes in favour of the Congress candidate Ms Mausam Noor, just to defeat the CPI-M.

In 2004, the BJP candidate, with the help of the Trinamul Congress had secured 39,000 votes in Gazole Assembly constituency. In the last Assembly polls, the BJP candidate had bagged more than 25,000 votes.

“We expected that the BJP would be able to bag at least 25,000 votes in the Gazole Assmebly constituency. But I got only 7,632 votes from Gazole”, Mr. Bhaduri said.

He also pointed out that, “We expected at least 48,000 votes from Habibpur assembly constituency’s vote-bank, but majority of our supporters living in Bamongola block, close to Gazole block, have cast their votes in favour of the Congress candidate on the same issue. As a result, I obtained only 21,717 votes from Habibpur assemblu segment”.

In Old Malda assembly segment, the BJP candidate did not get expected votes. Though the expected at least 25,000 votes from this segment, 17,110 votes were bagged.

Mr. Bhaduri said: “ I had expected at least 1.25 lakh votes from seven constituent assemblies, under the Noth Malda parliamentary constituency , based on previous records , but I obtained only 61,515 votes. We could not check the erosion on our vote bank due to lack of man power and organizational weaknesses at the last movement”.

“The Congress candidate in North Malda, had finally defeated it nearest CPI-M candidate in north Malda , by a margin of 60,141 votes , totally based on BJP’s vote bank”, Mr. Bhaduri said. (END)