BJP bypoll defeats: Jan Suraaj win in Bankipur, Congress’s in Datia a reality check for BJP?
Monday brought a twin shock for the BJP with two bypoll defeats it would not have expected. In Bihar, Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) wrested Bankipur, a seat the BJP had held for more than three-and-a-half decades. In Madhya Pradesh, the Congress held on to Datia. By-elections are mostly written off as no contests…
