opposition has claimed that the BJP is paying the cost of an aggressive campaign on the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which has resulted in its poor show in the Jharkhand Assembly elections. During its election campaign in the last three phases of the polls, the saffron party had raised concerns about the amendments in citizenship and the NRC in its election rallies. The final three-phase poll results show that the BJP lost about five seats or 23 per cent of its seats compared to the previous Assembly election.
The last three-phases of voting were held in Jharkhand amid nationwide protests against the NRC and the CAA. On December 12, 16 and 20, polls took place for 43 seats out of the total 81 seats in the state. The result tally shows that the BJP won 17 seats followed by the JMM (11) and Congress (9), while the AJSU, a former election ally of the BJP, got two seats in the last three phases.
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In 2014, the BJP had won 15 seats. In 2019, as per available data of the Election Commission, the BJP was able to retain only 10 seats. However, Congress and the JMM have gained two and six extra seats over their previous wins in the last assembly election.
Local issues were dominant in the past elections in Jharkhand, but the last three-phases campaign was concentrated on the NRC and the CAA amid protests across India. Leaders raised questions over the new Act and the proposed NRC plan, which the ruling party replied to as much as possible.
Addressing an election rally in Bhognadih in Sahebganj district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress party and said, "I am today daring the Congress and its lackeys and all the parties with it, that they declare in public that they are ready to give Indian citizenship to every citizen of Pakistan. The country will judge them."
BJP president Amit Shah also declared on December 2 in West Singhbhum in Jharkhand that the government would expel all infiltrators before the next Lok Sabha polls scheduled in 2024.
While the BJP has reportedly denied that the NRC has had any negative impact on Jharkhand elections, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who will face the next assembly election in Delhi, said that Jharkhand Assembly poll results appeared to be a verdict against the NRC and the CAA. He said that "aggressively" campaigning in the last two phases of the Jharkhand Assembly polls, raising the issues of the CAA and the NRC seems to have cost the BJP.
After Maharashtra, Jharkhand is the second state where BJP has lost after its remarkable victory in parliamentary elections in May.
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