September By-Poll Results : Is Modi Wave Losing Steam? By Deepak Parvatiyar September 17, 2014 Poll reversals in Assembly by-polls in nine states have jolted the BJP after its splendid performance in the General Elections. What comes as the biggest blow to the party is undoubtedly losing grounds in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state Gujarat, where it lost three Assembly seats to the Congress. It also lost three seats in its stronghold, Rajasthan. In Uttar Pradesh, where the success in the Lok Sabha elections catapulted Amit Shah – the party’s then in-charge of the crucial state – to the elevated position of the BJP president, the party could win just three of the eleven seats in the by-elections. The only rosy picture presented to the party was in West Bengal where it could finally win a seat after 15 years! The by-poll results are the second such setback in quick succession to the saffron brigade. Only last month it had sustained poll shocker in the Assembly b
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